Mark Brummel

Great start. I fortunately had only 400+ errors on my 1.800 objects. Share your experiences! NAV Bits and Bytes Well, what can I say……….this is going to take a while. If you have no idea what I am talking about, start here . After getting the objects converted to AL (using the standard process documented here ), I was immediately greeted in VS Code by just over 8000 errors/warnings. Great start. Luckily half of those were generated by the code analyzers. If you don’t know what they are, see he...

Let’s start converting our ISV solutions! NAV Bits and Bytes I’ve been a bit neglectful of this blog for the past couple of months, but with good reason. I’ve been jumping around multiple projects, and have now landed on a project that will involve taking a roughly 3000 object ISV solution and converting it to an extension. Easy task? Far from it. Challenging? Most definitely……but that’s why we do what we do right!? Will I be able to convert it all to an extension? Not likely. (Yes, extensions...

Cool Extension! Marcellus Nav Blog I think we all like the Zooming in the classic client and the Help/ About This Page in the Role Tailored client. This extension I created can be easily added to any page that displays records from the database and it will show all fields included in the source table. The source code is available on Github . View original post 150 more words

Today I wanted to extend a Role Center with a Page Extension and I noticed Microsoft has updated terminology. HomeItems = Embedding To add a list to the Home Items you must use Embedding. Other changes: Related Information = Navigation New = Creation. The Result in the Windows Client is the normal behavior with grouping the Cue from the Activities which in this case was also created using a Table Extension and a Page Extension. Great Job guys!

In software we’ve invented all kinds of terminology to make it sound as if removing a feature is great. Terms like sunsetting and retirement give you a great feeling. Who does not love to see the sun go down with a beer and a loved one. In reality it means that software that once was is no longer and we’ve had plenty of that in our beloved Navision product, now referred to as Business Central. FOB is an abbreviation of Financials Object, just like FLF is short for Financials License File...

Today I had a small talk with my brother about generating custom symbols from C/Side and how to manage that. Here is how I did it. At the company I work for we have a DTAP environment and we (normally) only code in Development. Fobs and Extensions are moved from Development to Test, Acceptance and Production. The quesion is how to control your symbols and move them together with each iteration. Surely you can generate symbols in your production database but that might not be super smart. Alternatively...

In the ForNAV standard report pack we have a few reports that are traditionally slow when running. One of my design goals when developing these reports was to see if I can increase performance. The names of the challenged reports will sound familiar to those in our channel for a longer time. Aged Accounts Receivables & Payables Inventory to G/L Reconcile The latter only exists in the North American localization but whomever spends a lot of time on MiBuSo has seen the questions on performance...

On my task list for one of my customers was a nicely isolated module that I could make into an extension. I’m a huge fan of making many small extensions rather than trying to put all of one customers modifications in one project. In this case it is a side-by-side project with C/Side so I have created my own app file for the packages. I’ll see if I can blog somewhat about that later. Extensions are not just for AppSource Some people seem to think that on-premise we can just as well continue...

Last week the inevitable happened. I created a page in C/Side with an ID that I had already been used by an extension. Microsoft is aware of this issue but does not want to prevent it from happening. The problem is that at first everything seems to work. Your new C/Side page will run just fine. I only...

Looking for feedback as always. As you might know (or not) we ship a set of standard reports with ForNAV which are optimized for the product. With these reports you’ll also get a set of tables, pages, codeunits and in the next version even a query. Out of the box, ForNAV is translated to all the...