Did you know that you could send us feedback about the Help for Microsoft Dynamics NAV? Did you send us feedback? A long time ago, we blogged about how we use the feedback that some of you send us to improve the docs for Microsoft Dynamics NAV. We still do that, so here is an update on what we do when you send us feedback. Primarily, we receive feedback through 2 different channels: Through the "Was this topic helpful?" link at the bottom of the topics in the MSDN Library . 1300 people...

Do you remember when, a year and a half ago, at NAV Tech Days, you gave us feedback on the NAV Design Patterns session - saying that Journal Error Processing is not generic and decoupled enough? Well, my colleagues Andreas Moth and Jesper Schulz from the NAV localization team at Microsoft Development Center Copenhagen, had created a framework to extract and generalize error message processing. This framework can be used across NAV. It comes with an API and new objects that you can reuse and plug...

In this previous blog post we looked briefly at Windows PowerShell and remoting. Back then, we used a PSSession object to connect to a Microsoft Dynamics NAV virtual machine in Microsoft Azure. This time we will look a little closer at just the PSSession object. Coffee Break 8 - Windows PowerShell Remoting (On-Premises) Taking a closer look at ways to run PowerShell on remote machines on your network. But first, if you think you need more study to start with this, then please check out this free...

Cumulative Update 24 includes all application and platform hotfixes and regulatory features that have been released for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013. 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 NZ - New Zealand ...

We have received several requests related to optimization tips for the Microsoft Dynamics NAV RDLC report experience. So in this blog post we provide you with a couple of tips for how you can refactor a report in order to increase its performance in terms of dataset reduction - the example is based on the standard report 4 “Detailed Trail Balance” from Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015 Cumulative Update 4 German localized DVD version (DEU). NOTE : This approach is valid if you are crystal clear...

Today's pattern is not a pattern but a "cookbook" that shows how to use the FileManagement library to download multiple files as a .zip file through Microsoft Dynamics NAV in a way that works on all types of clients. Abstract The goal of this pattern is to enable the users to download multiple files as a zip file instead of downloading one by one. On the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Web client, this is the preferred way of delivering multiple files since it is one of the web patterns and...

When you open a Windows PowerShell command prompt, often you type the same commands to begin with. This post shows how to create a profile that will run the commands you want every time you start a new PowerShell command prompt. Coffee Break 7 - Creating and using Windows PowerShell profiles User Story Developer wants to automate importing of Microsoft Dynamics NAV modules along with other often used scripts into the Windows PowerShell ISE environment, for simplicity and reliability. For this,...

Based on requests from customers and partners, the AMC Bank Data Conversion Service for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015 has just released support for 35 new banks worldwide. To see the new banks being supported, please go to the service sign up page here where you can also find more information on the service. If your bank isn’t supported today, please place your vote here and influence which banks the AMC Bank Data Conversion Service should add support for next.

Did you see our first coffee break about piping at t Windows PowerShell and Piping ? Let's dig a bit further. Coffee Break 6 - return to piping This time we will use more piping and other ways to look at a PowerShell object and format it in different ways. For the example here we will use Get-NAVServerInstance and the results from that cmdlet. But everything in this post would apply in the same way on other cmdlets, like Get-NAVServerUser Get-NAVWebService Get-Process Get-Service Change how data...

This pattern explains how to perform SELECT DISTINCT by using queries in Microsoft Dynamics NAV. It is brought to you by Bogdana Botez from the Dynamics NAV team here at Microsoft Development Center Copenhagen (MDCC). When you work with tables, sometimes you must perform a SELECT DISTINCT (also known as SELECT UNIQUE) from a table. As Dynamics NAV does not provide this out of the box, we present below a way to select unique records by using queries. Problem Statement Let's consider the VAT...