In the classic client it was a requirement from a lot of end-users to easily count filtered records in a listform. This can be solved by adding a control with SourceExpr COUNT on the form. Off course we should watch for performance but with Master Data this should not be an issue. But now we have pages, so how can we implement that? It's not wysiwyg. Where do I put the control. This is what I did: In the List Page search for the end of the group repeater and add a new group group. In this group add a field with SourceExpr Count and add some captions. This is the result: …

I just finished my presentation at directions about Tips and Tricks in NAV 2009. You can download the presentation and objects here . There is a special announcement on the last slide.

I'll be honest, I found this out by accident lately but I want to share it anyway. Since it took me almost 15 years to find, it might not be know to some others. As many of you know, using temporary tables in Microsoft Dynamics NAV is a very powerfull feature. We can use it to buffer data, to simulate SELECT DISTINCT etc. And they are free. Using temporary tables becomes even more powerfull when adding an array to it. Let's see this in an example. We'll create a new codeunit with a variable CustTemp that has two dimensions. So now we can use CustTemp[1] and CustTemp[2]. Let's…

Today I've experienced something weird. Some weeks ago one of my customers did a technical upgrade from Navision 5 SP 1 to Navision 6 SP 1 (Aka NAV 2009 Classic Client SP1). We decided to also move the Application Servers (Aka nassies) to a special server and to replace MiBuSo smtp with the newly introduced SMTP codeunit (400) in NAV 5 SP 1. Now, this is a lot of changes... and off course something went wrong... But this was not reported directly since the job that went wrong is still in development phase for end users to test. So after some weeks they said that a process was not running…