Mark Brummel

If one thing is true about working in IT, it is the wrong balance between the sexes. If I look at all the classes I’ve been teaching in the last two years I had classes with up to 20 guys, no girls. So what do you do in an ecosystem like that to draw attention on Social Media? For Dynamics NAV...

For me, not being at Directions USA is like missing my daughters birthday. It’s awfull. But since my youngest daughter actually will turn 8 next Monday I had to choose which, yes you can guess, was an easy choice. The fact that I won’t be there does not mean it’s not on the top of ...

Small changes that makes a big difference seems to be the slogan for NAV2017. One of these small changes that have been asked for a long time is to make it easier for partners to upgrade their customers by allowing us to add/remove fields and objects within the Microsoft number ranges which are 1..4...

I spend a lot of my time in SQL Server Management Studio. I rarely ever run tables anymore from Object Desingner and run most of my data conversions directly in T-SQL. Why? Because it is so much faster, I can script things, save and restore scripts, share accross customers etc. One of the pain point...

Today I got an email from the Directions Planning committee with a request for questions for a Town Hall session at Directions USA 2016. So what would you ask Marko Perisic or Paul White if you had a beer with them? Think about your question and bring it to the session, or if you are not attending, ...

Before you read this, go grab a coffee and read James Crowters’ blog first and then we start by repeating his conclusions. Conclusions which I agree on. Extensions are not perfect but they have significant potential Over time they will affect almost every NAV implementation The adaption with be slo...

By Mark Brummel, product specialist at ForNAV The project situation When one of my customers asked me to upgrade them from NAV 2009 R2 classic to NAV 2016, I was convinced that we would do all the reports with RDLC. For two reasons: The project started mid-2015 and at that time RDLC was the only opt...

Ok, it is official. I regret not attending at least one of the Directions events. They published their agenda and there is a really nice easter egg that you must search for. When blogging about features that have not been released yet it’s always balancing on the edge of NDA and in this case I...

Today I’ve spent some time in NAV2016 figuring out this error message: As you know in NAV2016 you can sort on each column even if there is no key and even if it’s a flowfield. So why am I getting this error? In my case the Test field is a Flowfield of the type COUNT to another table. Th...

Ok, let’s forget about Madeira, Extensions and NAV2017 for a blog and focus on what is really important. It’s time to vote who will win this years NAVUG All-Star award and what I love always about NAVUG is the transparency in which they work. You can follow this link and see who is nomin...

If there is one thing I learned from my previous blog post is that a catchy title works. Eventhough it’s early August I have had a lot of emails and comments on my last blog “ Dynamics NAV is Dead! Long live Dynamics NAV! “. Why? People seem to sometimes only read the title, or half ...

Totovic NAV Blog In this moment, we have the final countdown until Dynamics NAV conference season will start. We have 47 days until the opening Directions NA and 64 days until the opening Directions EMEA this year. This year Direction NA will be held the first, but Directions EMEA will be only 1...

Directions USA published their agenda today and the agenda for NAVTechDays is getting more clear each week too. What can we learn from these agenda’s? Its all about Extensions, Cloud and Dynamics 365 for Financials aka project “Madeira”. Is that a bad thing? I guess you should make...

Hi everyone. It has been a while since I blogged and especially about patterns. This is being written from Kastrup Airport Denmark and I just got back from Lyngby where I did a Master Class Summer School. As always I had a lot of experienced people in the class and we ended up talking about legacy c...

Big news from WPC today. Paul White presented the future for the Dynamics SMB space. Project Madeira will be launched this fall as Dynamics 365 – Business Edition, divided into Financials and Sales & Marketing The launch will be US and Canada first and in 2017 four (4) European countries. ...