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New Record in “Job Planning Line” to Sharepoint Online Tasks – Microsoft Flow Demo A few days ago, at a local event, we had a brief presentation with Microsoft on some possible integration scenarios between Microsoft Flow and Dynamics 365 (Dynamics 365 BE and NAV 2017 in this case). The tool is very interesting and we are offering it to our customers (and not just for Microsoft products integration..); below some simple examples of integrations. Updated Documentation: New “Power”...

NAV Development Preview “July Update” https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/nav/2017/07/12/nav-development-preview-july-update/ New\updated documentation @07-07-2017 “The Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Financials Developer Preview is still evolving with frequent updates” About AL & development Programming in AL https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics-nav/developer/devenv-programming-in-al Developer Reference https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics-nav/developer...

Yesterday at  Inspire , Satya Nadella unveiled  Microsoft 365 Microsoft 365 For Business, For Enterpise “A complete, intelligent solution, including Office 365, Windows 10, and Enterprise Mobility + Security, that empowers everyone to be creative and work together, securely.” https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/default.aspx “Microsoft 365 Business available for public preview on August 2, 2017” Microsoft Blog:  https://blogs.office.com/en-us/2017/07/10...

Cumulative Update 08 includes all application and platform hotfixes and regulatory features that have been released for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2017. The cumulative update includes hotfixes that apply to all countries and hotfixes specific to the following local versions: AT – Austria AU – Australia BE – Belgium CH – Switzerland CZ – Czech Republic DE – Germany DK – Denmark ES – Spain FI – Finland FR – France IS – Iceland IT – Italy NA – North America NL – Netherlands...

Number of Copies with Word Layout (Option II) Some time ago, I found this post on Microsoft Dynamics Community about: “No. of Copies” doesn’t work in Word Layout reports, “No. of Copies” works only on RDLC reports. Example:  Report 1306 Standard Sales – Invoice, “ N. Copies ” on request page Option I Old Post about this topic:   “How-to” implement a Copy Loop in Word report layouts”  https://robertostefanettinavblog.com/2017/01/24/how-to-implement-a-copy-loop-in...

Italian MVPs Summit 2017, October 3 2017 – #ITAMVP17 #SaveTheDate #ITAMVP17 #MVPs

Hi Gyus, some news from Redmond about Dynamics 365. Dynamics 365 Business Edition suite is changing name: “Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, Business edition” will be the new name. Source https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/financials Name changes for Dynamics 365 “This month, Microsoft announced a name change for Dynamics 365 for Finance and Dynamics 365 for Operations. Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Operations, Enterprise edition is now Microsoft...

MICROSOFT MVP AWARD 2017-2018! “Hi Guys! It’s Amazing! “ At a time when the MVP program is radically changing , I’m happy that Microsoft has renewed my MVP award #2 (2017-2018); In this case is the second consecutive award, for others I knew that unfortunately it has not been renewed. At the time of "Social 2.0", I focused everything on my blog that I update often, I’ve registered my new domain https://robertostefanettinavblog.com and I have grown considerably both to...

Many questions in Microsoft forum about this topic: “How to generate new dimension ID from data (dimensions values for NAV login) existing on external tables ?” Use standard NAV to achieve this, you can use standard NAV function DimMgt.GetDimensionSetID(Rec) to create New Dimension SET ID of function existing on UpgradeToolkit since NAV 2013. Utilization of “DimMgt.GetDimensionSetID(TempDimSetEntry)” function Elements: Page “Edit Dimension Set Entries (480...

This month’s update includes: -In the in-app designer -Added fixes to the txt2al.exe converter utility – Many GitHub issues have been fixed – Tenant -specific profiles Project https://github.com/Microsoft/AL Issues : https://github.com/Microsoft/AL/issues Source : NAV Development Preview – June Update – Dynamics NAV Team Blog

Hackathon Ability @Microsoft House, 27-28 Giugno http://www.techiteasy.it Hackathon Ability @Microsoft House, iniziativa che si terrà alla fine di questo mese (27 e 28) in Microsoft House. Si tratta di un Hackathon di due giorni che mette al centro le disabilità visive e che prende il nom e di “Connected Ability”. Non si tratterà solo di un evento informativo con sessioni e workshop , ma prevede anche 24 ore durante le quali si svilupperanno progetti, idee e soluzioni. Dopo la mattinata...

This post serie (By NAV TEAM Blog) illustrates a lot of be st practices\tips & tricks for upgrades , usable up to NAV 2017, as it uses the same paradigms of upgrading / synchronizing table patterns used since NAV 2013 R2. The last part (section 3) is interesting because it concerns using the “Sync Tables Force option” (no validation)  explaining the problems that could be generated when upgrading to NAV 2017. From which this consideration (tip) for upgrade > “Please do...

XACT_ABORT "OFF" using NAV linked views on linked servers I describe this scenario because it’s interesting: NAV with linked views based on linked servers (distributed views). The issue is related to a table in NAV linked to a view on an external table , made available through a linked server in SQL . When trying to save modifications in the table, the following error message is received: "Unable to start a nested transaction for OLE DB Provider. A nested transaction was required...

Nice post about “Purchase Order Workflow Sample” Source Post: Send Email with attachment to the vendor as a response in Purchase order workflow in NAV 2017 – CloudFronts Post on Microsoft Dynamics Community – NAV https://community.dynamics.com/nav/b/dynamicsnavcloudfronts/archive/2017/05/24/send-email-with-attachment-to-the-vendor-as-a-response-in-purchase-order-workflow-in-nav-2017

ITALIAN POST Word Reporter Vs Word Layout: dato che in NAVlab utilizziamo entrambe le soluzioni (ed alcuni miei colleghi del gruppo mi hanno chiesto le differenze tra le due funzionalità), cerco di riepilogare le principali caratteristichedifferenze tra i due sistemi . Word Reporter “Word Reporter is a nice tool included in NAVlab T0 Addon , similar to Word Layout Feature introduced with Dynamics NAV 2015; this tool is also available on Mibuso.” Tool Details “This tool enhances Dynamics...