August 2008 - NAV Developers Blog

  • NAV 2009 - New one-stop Launch Portal on PartnerSource

    One stop Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 launch portal for partners can be found at this link on PartnerSource (login required): Launch Portal for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 Follow the portal for: Key Announcements What's New Readiness and Training Sales and Marketing Materials Events Coming Soon Lars Lohndorf-Larsen Microsoft Dynamics UK Microsoft Customer Service and Support (CSS) EMEA These postings are provided "AS IS" with no warranties and confer no rights. You assume all risk for...
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  • NAV 2009 - How to generate charts / KPIs

    Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 has a new graphical object type called Charts or KPIs (Key Performance indicators). It is a way to create simple graphical charts, to give a visual overview of key figures. This post describes what you can and cannot do with charts, and it contains some sample code to how you might create a "Chart Generator Tool" to make it easier to generate new charts. What you can and can't do with charts: A chart must be based on 1 table, and 1 table only. You can't...
  • NAV 2009 - Sample C# project to consume a NAV web service

    This post is a step-by-step guide, how to make a very simple C# project (3 lines of code) to integrate to NAV 2009 via a web service. For simplicity, make a new codeunit in NAV with one function, for example like this: OBJECT Codeunit 78000 Test Web Service { OBJECT-PROPERTIES { Date=15/08/08; Time=07:40:24; Modified=Yes; Version List=; } PROPERTIES { OnRun=BEGIN END; } CODE { PROCEDURE AddX@1102601000(Value@1102601000 : Text[30]) : Text[30]; BEGIN EXIT(Value + 'x'); END; BEGIN END. } } The...
  • NAV 2009 - How to publish a web service

    This posts only describes how you can publish a web service in Microsoft Dynamics NAV (which is easy enough), and how you can see what you published. It does not describe how you can actually use this web service. Future posts will describe this. Please note that the features described here are only available in NAV 2009, which is not released yet. For more details about NAV 2009, follow this link: NAV 2009 Technical Preview The short story: In NAV 2009, run form 810 "Web Services". Select...