Now that we have a good overall picture of how we enable users to access the tools we create, we are ready to start creating our own NAV C/AL routines. It is important that you learn your way around the NAV C/AL code in the standard product first. You may recall the advice in a previous chapter that the new code we create should be visually and logically compatible with what already exists. If we think of our new code as a guest being hosted by the original system, we will be doing what any thoughtful guest does: fitting smoothly into the host's environment.

An equally important aspect of becoming familiar with the existing code is to increase the likelihood; we can take advantage of the features and components of the standard product to address some of our application requirements. There are at least two types of existing NAV C/AL code of which we should make use whenever appropriate...