Aphorisms about Microsoft Dynamics NAV

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Thank you for four hectic days in Las Vegas, Nevada. We took Version Manager out for a spin at Directions NA, and the interest was fantastic. Using the functionality of Version Manager to help the company SOX compliance, has proven to be a great idea. In 2002, the United States Congress passed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) to protect shareholders and the general public from accounting errors and fraudulent practices in enterprises, and to improve the accuracy of corporate disclosures. The…

I have received a number of requests to repeat my two days Extension for Dynamics 365 Business Central workshop for partners in US. Since I am going to Directions NA in Las Vegas, I thought that it would be a great opportunity to create a two days workshop leading up to the actual event May 5th to 8th. If we can gather 10 participants, we will do it. For more information, send me a mail info@b-a.dk. The agenda will be: The Visual Studio Code Editor Native Github integration Using…

At just about every Manufacturing course that I have conducted, I get the same question: "What does the Update Unit Cost do when Changing the Production Order Status?". My answer is usually: Forget it, it does not work properly. If we look at the latest course materials from NAV 2009, the explanation is: The window, shown in the figure, allows the user to select the desired status for this production order. Enter the appropriate Posting Date and select whether the unit costs of this production…

At my last Manufacturing course at eSeven in Stavanger, I promised to demonstrate the integration between the manufacturing module and advanced warehousing. I didn't get around to demonstrate it because we ran out of time. So, I thought, what better way to spend a Sunday afternoon still nursing the remainder of a flu and getting ready to catch the 18:10 to Stockholm, than making a blog post about how the integration works. Firstly, let's start with the easy one: Production is in the same…

I might have been a liiiiittle fast out of the gates, proclaiming the new Non-Inventory items to be the next cure for AIDS. Ralf Daugbjerg from Elbek & Vejrup tested the solution a little further than I did, and it seems that Microsoft haven't thought this functionality through all the way. Value Entries with a value in the "Cost-Amount (Non-Invtbl.)" field are costs, that do not create any G/L accounts according to Olof Simren's blog post: https://www.olofsimren.com/things-to-know-about…

In previous versions of Dynamics NAV, working with infinite components have always been a little cumbersome. What are infinite components, You might ask? Infinite components are items that must be added to the production, but they are not purchased in a normal manner. Infinite items in the production could be: Electricity Water Natural gas Meaning we do pay for them, but they come into the production automatically and we pay for the consumed quantity. Previously we have always…

Not too long ago, I was visiting a customer. They presented me with a conundrum: How come half of our registrations from our ShopFloor system are not imported to our live Dynamics NAV? When we test the import functionality, everything works just fine. My first question was: "did you make a testing database recently?". Creating testing databases, it is imperative that you stop all scheduled jobs running in the database, as I have blogged about in my previous blog: Automated preparation of…

This is a question I get from time to time. Well, there is, but it seems that the CPLS' are reluctant to offer the course. I have therefore decided to create a manufacturing course this winter. Together with SkillsHouse we will arrange a four-day course in Aarhus, Denmark on: February 25 th to 28 th 2019 with the following content: Introduction to the Manufacturing system Setting up the Manufacturing system Items Bills of materials Capacities Routings Putting it…

Working with extensions, I face the same problems as everybody else. I feel that I'm limited in my work, not knowing what the other extensions are doing. A year ago, I released the Extension Details that can help developers identify which object numbers and fields have been used by other developers. Over the last year I have continued to develop the extension details solution to help me, and maybe it can help others too. "Extension Details" 2.0 have now been rebuilt: It now only uses…