For consultants it might be nessesairy every now and then to change Role Center for testing purposes. You can change your Role Center in table 2000000073 - User Personalization and page 9172 - User Personalization Card But to go there is quite a hassle. So I decided to add this to my Database Information page I created in Tip #18 The CurrentRoleCenter variable is of Text 50. This will find the current Role Center in a function. I've added two functions. With this code Where Text001...

We al know this blog entry of Waldo. It shows you how you can see what database you are logged onto. Now with the Role Tailored Client we have the same issue. All these years of R&D at Microsoft and no one had a brigt moment of implementing this. Off course you can see the companyname very clear. But you also want to see if you are in the testdatabase or production. Now how did I implement this. Step 1 - Create a new page We create a new page. Do not use the wizard and do not choose a...

Last week I created my first RTC report. An exiting experience I can say. To be honest I was not really looking forward, but as it went I became more and more entousiastic. As most of you know the RTC reports use a dataset. This dataset is a XML file that is rendered in a SSRS like way. The basics for this dataset is the classic report layout. Every item on this layout is a part of the dataset, so even if you do not want to use the classic client you need to maintain the classic dataset in some...

One of the great things about the Role Tailored Client is it's intuivity. People who have never worked with NAV can handle the client perfectly. As I was going through some issues with an enduser two weeks ago this became clear to me again. You might know that the RTC always starts with an embeded list page before going to the card page. Now I always used to doubleclick the mouse or clicked CTRL+SHIFT+E. Now this used pressed Enter and the card opened. DUH.

The NAV 2009 role tailored client has this great feature called the action pane. This allows you to execute tasks on a page that used to be the menubuttons in the classic client. The major advantage of this action pane is that it's more clear to the end user (intuitive) and the end user can modify how it looks bu personalisation. One of the drawbacks of this functionality is that it does not allow you to execute actions on the subpages. This needs to be done via this stupid small lightning...

All of you who tried to install the three tier environment on three systems have experienced that that is not exactly an easy job. Now microsoft has released a tool that will help you analyse problems with the installation. Download here The Best Practices Analyzer for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 is a tool for identifying issues that can prevent you from successfully deploying a three-tier environment of Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009. Three-tier environment deployments can be challenging because...

Update: The Granule is now FREE! http://www.dynamicsnavconsultant.com/2011/02/dynamics-nav-server-granule-where-did-it-go/ Thanks Dan! --------------------- This new granule is starting to agrevate me a lot lately. Microsoft has added this granule the license module since the release of NAV 2009. It allows to use the Role Tailored Client. You need one of these per Service Tier. A service tier can handle about 60 concurrent users. Pefect you might think; but nothing could be more wrong. Microsoft...

For those of you who are around here for a while this might not be new but years ago, Navision licensing was per granule. This was a very good way of getting exactly the value for money. Youl'd simply only purchase the functionality you need and then add a bunch of users. Because this was complex to do (as a salesperson you need to know what you are selling) Microsoft decided to move to a more simple model. They call it Business Essentials and Advanced Management. Personaly I'd rather have...

This was the last day of directions USA 2009 but when writing it was yesterday. Currently I am at the airport waiting for my plane to leave. Together with me is my friend Sam Adams from this town called Draft. Directions USA 2009 was a great event. The sessions were very highly evaluated and deep dive really meant deep dive. With SP1 released NAV 2009 RTC is really a great product and it is great to see a county like the USA starting to adopt. When it comes to adopting you have early adopters,...

Today was day number two of Directions USA 2009. It was also the day where I did my presentation together with Scott Frappier. We had a great time and really tried to give an impression of real world experiences on what happens when doing an upgrade. You can download the slidedeck here. http://dynamicsuser.net/media/p/156085.aspx I had a lot of meetings with people today and visited two other sessions. First was the ISV session for Agiles workflow. Now I have to say that I am not an ISV guy...