November 2011 - Posts
This blog is as much as informative and subject to change/discussion. At one of my Dutch customers we are implementing two subsidiaries in Lithuania. These are simple offices that do accounting, sales and purchases with pretty much standard NAV which also the HQ does. Since the LT localisation is not very exiting we decided to have them all in one database. I know this is not officially best practice from a technical and upgrade point of view, but as most of you know the advantages of having it in...
This week I got an email from Thijs den Hartog that he was experiencing weird behaviouor of classic reports after doing dome updates of the binaries of Dynamics NAV. Also this week I read an announcement on the NAV Teamblog that they introduced a new feature called Metadata versions since updating the binaries require a recompile of all objects. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/nav/archive/2011/11/17/introducing-metadata-version-in-nav-2009-sp1-r2-hotfixes.aspx Dit you think I was smart enough to link these...
With my previous post I unintentionally caused quite a stir between the partners who develop tools that allow us to manage our development, not just because my big mistake in thinking Mergetool was not yet updated to pages, which it was, but also in my firm opinion that metadata and tools should not be in a customer or development database. So I believe that this deserves more attention, explanation and clarification. Disclaimer This post is solely my option on this subject. I have been involved...
Today, Todd Bergesson of Microsoft confirmed at NAVUG that the classic forms as we have known them since 1995 will be discontinued in NAV "7". This quote is from MSDynamicsWorld. The reason for this, Bergeson said, is twofold: First, SQL is the only server option for NAV 7, so when a user is upgrading to 2009, he needs to upgrade to SQL; and second, the Classic Client must be upgraded to the Role Tailored Client using the transformational tool in 2009, because the engine that runs the forms...
If you want to test with Microsoft Dynamics NAV 7 you need a x64 machine. Not to run the client, since that is still x86 but to run the service tier and SQL Server. So when I got invited to Knowledge Transfer 3 as part of the TAP program I needed to make a decision since my system was three years old and back then it was still normal to install x86. My laptop is only thee years old and was quite good when I bought it, its x64 with enough RAM and a fast CPU but I decided to upgrade the slowest part...
As I described in my previous post , we will get report design guidlines. One of these guidlines is to use itterated background changes in list reports. This looks realy cool, just like listplaces in the RTC. But how do you implement this. Wel, it is extremely easy. BackgroundColor This is a property that every contol has in RDLC and you can populate it with a name or hexnumber representing the color Expressions In most RDLC properties you can write expressions. This is a very easy language which...
Most changes in Dynamics NAV 7 are under NDA so we (mvp's) cannot blog about them, but fortunately we can do some sneak peaks of what is ahead and how you can prepare. This post has a disclaimer and all contents is "as is", no promisses and everything is subject to change. I already posted some of these back in May this year, but this post contains some more hands on tips to use today. Report look and feel The reports in NAV7 should have the look and feel as described in the general...
Just before I traveled to Denmark for KT3 my copy of Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009: Professional Reporting arrived. Packt asked me to review it. As an author I think reviews are very important feedback for the writers so I decided to try and write more than, "mandatory reading" or "must have". So here it goes. First thing I should mention is that Packt asked me to write this book right after I finished my own. I decided to say no because I was in the middle of moving houses and...