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David Singleton's Navision Blog
This blog is all about the many years of experiences I have had with Navision.

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 Most of the entries on this Blog will be directly about Dynamics NAV (Navision) but also there will be stuff about community in general.

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  • From Navision to NAV

    David Singleton
    David Singleton
    Earlier this year I gave and MVP presentation, the topic was discussing the journey from Navision to NAV from the perspective of me as an MVP. It was fun, but there wasn't enough time, so I now plan to expand on that as a blog series. In fact most of my community work over the past few years has been presentations and live events, which is definitely more fun, but has much less reach. So it's time to focus more back to community activities that more people can benefit from.
    • 2016-10-27
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  • The most powerful tool that a Dynamics NAV consultant can use.

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    David Singleton
    So you are planning to become a Navision consultant. You are going to show people how to use Navision, how to run their business, and more importantly how to make their business run better. Of course you already know that NAV application from start to end. You can post any Sales Order, and know exactly...
    • 2009-10-30
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  • What if Homer Simpson became a Navision consultant?

    David Singleton
    David Singleton
    The Homer At first look, this sounds like a rather bizarre proposition that Homer would be a Navision consultant, yet in reality most new consultants that join the world of Dynamics NAV think exactly like Homer. ;) Take a look at the episode Oh Brother Where Art Thou? Homer finds that as a...
    • 2009-9-6
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  • Get Rich Quick With Dynamics

    David Singleton
    David Singleton
    I got hit by my first 419 scam back in 1990, via fax. In those days it was still relatively new, so I made an effort to find why someone wanted me to share 25% of their 50 million. Without Google, it was quite a task to find out what it was all about, but we worked it out eventually. In those days it was much simpler than it is now, then you just arrived at the airport with $50k, and either gave it to the thugs, or got shot on the spot. Now a days the killing is too messy, so they use the internet instead. Of course these days it seems that Nigerian billionaires die in their hundreds…
    • 2009-7-28
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  • Increasing field lengths in Navision

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    David Singleton
    One of the very first things that most new developers try to do when they start with Navision development is to increase the lengths of certain fields. Typically Item Description or Customer Name and Address fields. Those that have been in Navision development for a long time will do everything they...
    • 2009-7-17
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  • Windows Live Writer

    David Singleton
    David Singleton
    I just read Erik’s Blog about Windows Live Writer . After Googling it, I found that I actually already have it installed on my computer. Just playing with it, it does look good. So far comparing to Word I would say the biggest issue I see is that content like photos etc are all stored on Microsoft servers...
    • 2009-7-13
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  • Why I don’t want my clients to use SANs for Dynamics NAV (Navision)

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    David Singleton
    I am sure I am not the only person that has had to argue with a client as to how hardware needs to be configured in a Dynamics NAV environment. Typically bigger companies with larger internal IT support generally have their way of doing things, and its often very hard to sway them to do things "The Navision...
    • 2009-3-30
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  • Select * FROM and how to do it better in NAV

    David Singleton
    David Singleton
    Some background I met with Mark in Barcelona some time back at Tech Ed. We had both just been to a SQL (not NAV related) session, and it opened both our eyes at that moment as to why the Select * in NAV is so bad. I did my first NAV performance tuning job in 1993, (Navision on OS/2 Warp) so I am not...
    • 2009-3-14
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  • If it takes one person 10 days to dig a ditch, how long does it take 10 people to dig the same ditch?

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    David Singleton
    A simple question from primary school math class. If your answer was "one day" then you are wrong, if you said 10 days you are probably also wrong. If you said 5 you are getting warmer. My first job after University was working on a Gold Mine. I eventually worked up to mine manager, and...
    • 2009-3-2
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  • The NAV PG is listening to us.

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    David Singleton
    Well I just got back from Convergence in Copenhagen. I will write up my general impressions over the next few days, as well as blog about some of my experiences there. One thing I do want to point out that I think is great news is the feedback I got from the NAV Product Group, and form others that...
    • 2008-11-21
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