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NAV Launcher – download

2011-10-31T23:26:59Z

Back in January 2011 i wrote about the NAV Launcher, a project based on the Navision Starter v1.2 orignally created by Sergey Gazizyanov back in 2006. Well, i realized that i never put a download link on the site. Attached in this post is the installer for the .NET project. It requires, as far as i [...]...(read more)

Contributions for the Directions Innovation Award

2011-10-12T23:31:58Z

If you are not at the NAV Directions 2011 in Orlando, you might not be aware of this new initiative for the NAV Directions Innovation Award. Entrants were to submit a 3-5 minute video to showcase their “innovation” for the board that will select the finalists. Voting will be done in the true spirit of [...]...(read more)

Dynamics NAV RTC Reports, BLOB fields, printing Notifications

2011-05-10T00:09:54Z

In Dynamics NAV 2009 RTC you have the new functionality with Notifications. It allows you to create notifications and send them to other users, so it shows up in their “My Notification” on the Role Center. The notifications are actually stored in the “Record Link” table as a BLOB field. This is a great functionality, [...]...(read more)

Cookie cutters for Visual Studio Dynamics NAV 2009 RTC add-ins

2011-05-09T23:50:15Z

You know the hoops you have to jump before you got Visual Studio setup for creating a RTC add-in. Well look no further Christian Abeln published a couple of great templates to use in Visual Studio, that will help you create your add-ins much faster and easier. Actually he already published tempates back in 2009, [...]...(read more)

Dynamics NAV, first on the Azure platform?

2011-04-11T21:30:56Z

Looking forward to reading some of the Convergence gossip from Atlanta, i got this link from a friend today. Definitely sounding interesting that Dynamics NAV will be the first Microsoft ERP product supported on the Microsoft Azure platform. The next major releases of Dynamics AX, GP, NAV and SL will be developed to run on [...]...(read more)

Web Based Dynamics NAV Object model from NavUtils.com

2011-01-26T05:58:38Z

In my search for some information about getting Item Tracking via ADCS to work with MRP/MPS in Dynamics NAV i noticed, that when i searched for specific terms of functions in NAV objects a website kept popping up in the Google search results. For some reason i had not really seen it before, must have [...]...(read more)

NAV Launcher – Open NAV with the right client version

2011-01-20T17:40:31Z

This morning i was reading the blog post from Arend-Jan Kaufmann regarding opening Classic databases with the correct executable version. You can see his blog post here: Suggestion for Available Databases Form in Dynamics NAV It reminded me of a tool i basically use on a daily basis, as well as many other people in [...]...(read more)

Welcome to the Digital Age… and 2011!

2011-01-18T18:44:06Z

18 days into the new year of 2011, and still wondering where 2010 went? Since the last postings things have been busy with end of year tasks for customers, holiday with the family and here early 2011 a NAV 3.60 to NAV 2009 upgrade. With christmas time just a few weeks past, i think i [...]...(read more)

Copy/paste from Dynamics NAV to Excel Headache!

2010-12-09T21:48:30Z

Every time you copy/paste data from NAV to Excel, you always run into the “intelligent” way Excel handles data. Excel’s default number format is “General”. Unfortunately this has some drawbacks, especially when you paste in data from another application. Lets do this example, enter in a new cell with Number Format General, the value “001010″, [...]...(read more)

Hot Topic Videos released for upcoming Dynamics NAV R2

2010-12-03T22:28:23Z

While most children are watching the days to christmas, most NAV people are looking forward to December 15th, when the R2 release of Dynamics NAV 2009 is going to be released. A quick blog scan will give you loads of information about the new features, the hype and what not. But Microsoft also released these [...]...(read more)

Beginners Tip: Creating and Handling Headers in Dataports

2010-12-02T23:02:34Z

As “Dinosaur”-tech as it might seem these days with most blogs posting about RTC, dataports is still one of the easiest ways to import data into NAVision. Having to search my old databases for a quick way to handle headers in datafiles, i thought i would share this with you. Hopefully Google will answer you [...]...(read more)

Send Dynamics NAV RTC reports and documents as PDF

2010-12-01T00:03:22Z

Thanks to Microsoft Reporting Services PDF Rendering Extension, all RTC reports can be exported to PDF. At least that is benefit coming back to us, while struggling with the report creations (read post from Alex Chow: How to define Set/GetData). In order to get the PDF, that gets generated on the service tier, available on [...]...(read more)

What is in your Dynamics NAV toolbelt? Barcode Creator by Stijn Bossuyt

2010-11-21T23:10:10Z

Stijn Bossuyt has made a great function/codeunit for generating barcodes within Dynamics NAV without the need for any third party add-ons. You can find more information about it on this MIBUSO blog. Barcode as defined on Wikipedia: “A barcode is an optical machine-readable representation of data, which shows certain data on certain products. Originally, barcodes [...]...(read more)

Replacing CRONUS logo with CompanyInformation Picture in Stylesheets

2010-11-17T23:10:02Z

This post is a follow up to some of my previous posts about the Send to Word/Excel features of Dynamics NAV. As you know, it uses a stylesheet (xslt file), that is being read into memory and the codeunit 403 inserts values into the document. This is definitely one of the cool demo features, when [...]...(read more)

Dynamics Community Syndication of Got C/AL?

2010-11-15T19:01:00Z

Last week Got C/AL? got syndicated on the Microsoft Dynamics Community site, under the NAV section. You can find the site here: https://community.dynamics.com/product/nav/default.aspx. For the new readers i will give you a quick introduction to the site here, in addition to what you already can find on the site. The site was originally founded back [...]...(read more)