This is a question that every now and then drives me nuts, and only few times is cristal clear. So why is that. Why does an entrepeneur say, on a late sunday afternoon, I will invest a 6 digit figure of my retirement money in ERP. First, let's define an entrepeneur. In Dynamics NAV and most ERP applications we have many types of customers. A lot of customers are large stock companies where we implement Dynamics NAV in a department or they are government or not for profit organisations. But we have to admit, the larger part of our customers are entrepeneurs. One, two or a couple of people…

Authumn 2010 is comming fast and 2011 will arrive soon for all of us who are always so busy, This means that the magical release year "2009" is more and more history. And this makes me aks, how many implementations have you done with the RTC, how many profiles have you setup, how many pages did you create and did you use webservices and Client Add-Ins? The reason for this Blog Entry is the fact that I am sitting on a stupid hotel bed in a foreign country. Tomorrow I will teach a NAV 2009 RTC training to a partner and an end user. They are at the start of a migration project from version 3.70…

As many of you know there is a lenght limitation of text variables in Microsoft Dynamics NAV. One of the real-life problems you can encounter due to this is when doing interfacing, especially when reading EDI files. EDI files are often very long and without Cariage Return Line Feeds. Solutions are using a dataport with a delimiter such as '+' instead of NewLine or asking the EDI vendor to implement CRLF's. If both are not possible, for example if you want to read the EDI files though a NAS you have to use a codeunit with File variable. Using the File variable with long textlines…

Ok, it has been a while since I blogged. One of the reasons for that was that we bought another house and moved last month. This has a huge impact on a family with young children and my wife is pregnant. Right now we are settled and everything is starting to be on its place. Another reason is, I have to be honest, that after finishing the book my mind was not exactly on writing at all. The book has been publised now for quite a while and I had many nice reactions. I even signed a couple of books which feels very special. Enough about me, what is this blog entry about. A tip, yes. Number…