Do you remember the DCO licensing compared with external user licensing? And all frustrations and misconceptions there were involved? And that there was no device-license available? Yes, we have web services now, but if you want to license it, it's just way too expensive (in many cases) ... Well, there is some good news. Microsoft listened .. and changed the licensing options. In fact, effective from September 1st 2010 , Microsoft is introducing three lighter access license rights to help the...
This is a small tip .. actually not a tip .. just a look-out-for-this-please. You know Cues on Role Centers, right? I mean the stacks that represent values of a certain number of certain jobs or tasks someone has to do. These things: Now, in general, these are flowfields. In fact, these are "count" flowfields, that count a certain amount of records in a certain table with a certain filter. BUT. When developing your own Role Center, you could be adding your own calculations in here as well...
I recently got an email from a very dedicated support engineer from Microsoft that probably most of you know (at least if you use Microsoft Support): Zeeshan Mehdi. He pointed out there is a new, useful link on Partnersource. In fact, it's a link to a download that contains .. other links :-): a " MegaMap " to Dynamics NAV 2009 Materials. It's an excel file with a list of links to things like: Articles VPC's Hands on Labs Demo Tools What's New stuff Whitepapers Walkthrougs...
It's time for a "heads-up" for all partners among us. Microsoft is changing the certification for partners. If you're a certified partner, you probably are "Microsoft Certified" or "Microsoft Gold Certified". In fact, there is a bigger chance you're "Microsoft Gold Certified" as 70% from all certified partners, are GOLD. Well, starting from from October, this certification is going to change . In the future (as of October 2010) we (as NAV partners...
Doing support on NAV 2009 RTC is a challenge. First of all, you've got the challenge of the customization-part (everyone can customize their pages to their own needs) .. and second, you've got the challenge of supporting the different roles: when someone from the warehouse has got a problem, you want to investigate that problem "in his role". The second issue, I would like to address today in this blogpost. In a way, we need to be able to select a role in a flexible way . First...
Finally a new update of the Platform updates.. . I must say, they make it complicated. In the old days, I was using the knowledge base RSS feeds as my only resource, but now, I use the "released platform hotfixes"-page on partnersource as well .. and I have to, because they seem to be publishing just a fraction of the updates on the knowledge base. On top of that .. they really make a mess of it (sorry to say, but they are...). Build numbers are mixed up, re-using buildnumbers and such...
As I already announced on my blog , Microsoft was working on a next version of the Application Test Toolset ... . There was already a R1, but it wasn't really sufficient. Now, in this release ( here you can read all about it) you've got a set of 226 application tests .. In a framework that makes the test-codeunits use-able. here's the list from the Team Blog: 226 application tests (covering areas such as service management, sales, purchasing, inventory management, jobs, and finance) Application...
Anyone worked with Action Categories yet? This "feature" was enhanced in SP1, but is not a very well known feature, so it seems. So it's worth to write a blog post about it. Hopefully this time nobody else wrote about it, because people might start thinking that I'm just copying stuff (inside joke). First of all: what is an Action Category? Well, let's take for example the Customer List (Page 22). The action categories on this page are "New", "Process" and...
I haven't been blogging too much lately .. . and there is a good reason for it. No, nothing to do wiht the title .. . I have been doing quite some "session", "lectures", ... or how do you kids call it these days . In fact, since I've been back from Convergence US, I have been doing: A lecture for HOWEST: a high school in Belgium which teach NAV in some of their classes. A session for the Dynamics Community about NAV Tips&Tricks A session for Directions EMEA in Prague...
As I announced in my previous post ... Mark Brummel has written a book. And not just a book .. a book about "NAV 2009 Application Design. This is a very general title, which can mean a lot. And I must say, it also covers a lot. In about 45 pages per chapter, Mark succeeded to pinpoint not only what the core functionality of NAV is all about, but also how it's built. In my opinion: everything a consultant/developer should know ! And in that understanding, I'm going to make this book mandatory...
It's beginning to sound as a cliché, but once again, Directions EMEA 2010 was great! Outstanding organisation, outstanding sessions, outstanding food .. outstanding girls ;°) (sorry, felt mandatory to mention them as well :-) ). Sure there are always things that could be better, but that's always, everywhere, anytime. One should know that most of this event was realized by only four persons. I would like to take this opportunity to thank the efforts of those guys... and to thank them for...
I've been looking forward to this session of Freddy. He has been advertising it during our session on Wednesday, and apparently, people listened, because lots of the people that attended our session were here as well. Off course, it's a hot topic as well .. the cloud.. what the hell is that cloud?? And Azure?? I don't know if these questions were really answered during the session, but at least, everyone has got a pretty nice picture now of what it can be useful for ... . I'm not...
A session presented by a fellow-MVP:Jörg Stryk. The guy is unbelievable into SQL Server and SQL Server performance tuning on a NAV database (like Hynek is as well), so he's quite a good catch to be presenting a session about this topic, off course. May be you know Jörg from his book: The NAV/SQL Performance Field Guide . Jorg started out by pointing out that a Key is not necessarily the same as an index. Key's are terms from the classic environment, while an index is something else. And it's...
There is nothing much new on the Testing Codeunits Functionality, only that it hasn't been adopted very wel in the NAV community by now. During the session, it was nice to see (again) how it works. I'm not going to explain it again, because Kamil Sacek already did in his blog: Kine's Info and it's quite good explained in the MSDN as well. But, I am going to tell you this: Application Test Toolkit v2 There is going to be a new "Application Test Toolkit", which will contain...
At this moment, Directions EMEA is "going on" .. and once again, it's turning out to be quite a success. This is only my first blog about it, while it's the second day .. . This is because I had a session about Web Services (with Freddy, by the way :-) ) on the first day, and wanted to take the time I had to do some preparation, because things have been so busy that I didn't find enough time. But I can say that (now I finished the session) all went fine. I'm not going to...
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