Merging cumulative updates into your own Microsoft Dynamics NAV solutions has become a lot easier with the new merge utilities . They are based on the concept of three-way merge to reconcile two sets of changes made (independently) to a given base version. For example, when applying Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015 Cumulative Update 1 to a customized database, the customized database and the cumulative update are both derived from Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015 RTM, which is the shared based version in that...

An update to Microsoft Dynamics NAV for tablets is now available. Update to version 1.1. from your preferred store; Windows Store, or Google play. The update to version 1.1 will soon be available on the App Store as well. Note that the minimum requirement for installing the Dynamics NAV for tablets update is that Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015 CU1 is installed, if you use Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) as the authentication mechanism. For more information, please see our earlier blog post...

We recently received a few interesting requests about an error code appearing under particular circumstances: 85132273. This error might typically arise with the Windows Client but also with Web Services and NAS Services as well. Digging under the hood, this error message is related to a Primary Key violation in SQL Server tables. In most of cases, this could be due to C/AL code such as the following: IF NOT MyTable.INSERT THEN … This is quite an easy and diffuse syntax that looks innocent...

An update to Microsoft Dynamics NAV for tablets will soon be available; however, here is an important note before you install that update. If you are using Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) as the authentication mechanism, you must first update your Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015 installation to CU1 or later. For information about CU1, see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=518121 (login to PartnerSource is needed). In the meantime, make sure that your device does not automatically pick...

Have you ever wonder what ' The client version does not match the server version. You can only connect to a server with a matching version. ' error message really means? Since the error message shows the file (build) versions of the client and server it has been speculated that only clients and servers of the same build can connect, which is not the case. What really happens is that we have a communication interface between Microsoft Dynamics NAV Server and clients that has an internal version...

Cumulative Update 2 includes all application and platform hotfixes and regulatory features that have been released for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015. The cumulative update includes hotfixes that apply to all countries and hotfixes specific to the following local versions: AU - Australia AT - Austria BE - Belgium CH – Switzerland DE - Germany DK - Denmark ES - Spain FI - Finland FR - France IS - Iceland IT - Italy NA - North America NL - Netherlands NO - Norway ...

Some significant changes have been introduced to the internal database structure for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 R2 in order to support the powerful new Multitenancy functionality. These changes impact on how the NAV application manages a collation change whether or not you are using Multitenancy. At first glance, changing the NAV database collation seems to be the same old process as before. It can be achieved by following the steps below: 1. Shut down the NAV middle tier service and (optionally...

If you’re just starting with NAV, this pattern is a must-know for any NAV developer or consultant. Thanks to Xavier Garonnat from knk Ingénierie in France for documenting it. Best regards, The NAV Patterns team Meet the Pattern A document structure contains a header and a set of lines. Each line is linked to the header and could have common data with header. Know the Pattern This pattern should be used as a basis to build any document, showing a header and multiple lines in the...