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NAV 2009 SP1 has a new shortcut which will be frequently used.

Shift F12.

What does it do?

No, they have not implemented the object designer in the Role Tailored Client.

Shift F12 brings you back to your role center page.

Perfect! Yes! Happy!

But...

Why Shift F12 instead of F12? I know F12 goes back to the 'menusuite' but personaly I would have prefered F12 for the Role Center page and Shift F12 for the menusuite.

Anyway. It is a great new feature.

With NAV2009 SP1, a new function is shipped.  ASSERTERROR.

It is implemented to support testing codeunits like described in Kine's blog.

However, it might also be usefull for errortesting in NAS / Job Scheduler processes. You can run a codeunit and write code to handle different error messages.

More information about the function and syntax:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee414211.aspx

PS: Does anyone know there it is in the F5 symbol menu?  

NAV 2009 has redesigned the matrix pages.

What happened is that they went back to a 'single' page. The used technology is a page with subpage. The page is where the filters are set, and the subpage is what we used to call the matrix control.

Unfortunately it is not what used to be a matrix. It is a 'normal' list page.

Rumours say that the matrix control was discontinued because of its complexity. People who are in the channel longer know that the matrix control was never really reliable and always behaving funny.

So it seems that this is the 'final' solution. Maybe, maybe not.

The pages are converted from forms, but since the matrix controls are not supported by the transformation tool there is a special form for the conversion. From 9202 _Budget will be converted to page 113. Page and Form 9203 Budget Matrix is the subpage.

Codeunit 9200 Matrix Management handles a lot of what the old control used to handle.

Al and al it is not a bad solution but I wanted to show some weird things

It seems that they still did a rush job.

This function will never be executed.

Is this generated code or a missing IF line?

While preparing the NAV 2009 SP1 training for developers in The Netherlands I came accross this new feature.

If you compile one or multiple objects in this version you will get an error list like in real dev. environments.

Another feature that is added is warnings. Until this release NAV only had compile errors. This version warns you if you implement stuff that won't work in the service tier.

Example

If you import the objects from my contribution to the good old Christmas Contest on Mibuso you will get a codeunit amongst other things.

When you compile the codeunit you will get this screen.

Sorry for the Dutch, waarschuwing means Warning.

What it says is that BEEP is not supported in the service tier.

If you compile multiple objects you will get all warnings and errors from all objects and if you push design it will flip to the code. 

COOL.

The data is stored in a new internal table, 2000000070 Error List

There is a downside. If you compile a codeunit with f11 while in the object you will get the warnings in a messagebox as well. Mr. Microsoft, can you please remove that? Or does someone disagree?

For a customer running on a Native database I was looking for some information about the good old Hotcopy.

Hotcopy is a small tool that allows you to make a copy of your NAV database while it is active and running.

The 'tool' is an executable in the server folder called hotcopy.exe.

These are the hotcopy parameters

hotcopy

source=databasefile1 (databasefile2…databasefile16)

destination="backup directory1" ("backup directory2"…"backup

directory16")

[description="This is the backup for Monday"]

[email=username@microsoft.com]

[servername=myserver]

[user=myname password=mypassword | osauthentication=yes]

[dbtest=normal]

[cc=yes]

[nettype=tcps|tcp|netb]

More information about hotcopy can be found in the w1w1ism.pdf file on your product CD