Tips and Tricks

The last of the NAV TechDays 2018 demo series comes with a little story. While Waldo and I were preparing the “Evolution of the Titan” session, on Sunday before the conference, we were brainstorming the ideas of what would constitute a cool non-visual JavaScript demo.

One of the more effective, and probably completely unexpected, demos at Waldo’s and mine NAV TechDays 2018 session was the user profile picture demo. I say “completely unexpected” is that it shows something that you normally don’t expect from control add-ins.

Eric Sevareid famously said that the chief cause of problems is solutions . The same applies to the HTML trick I blogged about yesterday. As soon as you solve the problem of using HTML directly in your control add-ins, another problem arises: what do you do with actual images your control add-in includes?

In my previous post , I’ve written about the situation when you (or somebody you trust) redeclares the $ variable, thus inadvertently breaking all your jQuery code. I’ve also explained how to remedy for it inside the code you write by applying the Immediately Invoked Function Expression (IIFE) or Self-Executing Anonymous Function pattern.

First, a disclaimer. This post is written for (C/)AL developers who are struggling with JavaScript, who copy and paste JavaScript code from Stack Overflow right into VS Code and are happy when it works, and confused when it doesn’t.

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