Summary
In this module, you learned how to work with XMLports. You can use the XMLport object to import or export XML files or text files. Text files can be variable text (delimited) or fixed-width. To create a new XMLport, you can use the txmlport snippet. The object defines the XML nodes in a schema section. In the XMLport properties, you can specify the Direction property, which you can use to indicate that the object is used for import, export, or both.
An XMLport can be run in AL code in the background, but you can also run an XMLport. Occasionally, you might want the user to be able to provide extra filter values. To enable this function, you can create a request page, which is defined as a card page, but within the XMLport object.
Additionally, you learned about the different properties that are used to separate fields in a text file or split different tables. To create a text file with a header, you can use the Integer table to generate a header and then use the other table as the second dataset.