... that one has to wait for me to return! Ciao. CU on the internet in August or maybe even later in Antwerp in September.

Hadn't read anything about this one, so I stumbled over it too during my exploratory code compare: changes made to the post code functionality. City field on table 23 (Vendor) Click on the next image to get a full view that's readable. See the newly added TableRelation ? And the "removed" OnLookup trigger? The extended ValidateCity "function call"? Post Code field on table 23 (Vendor) Click on the next image to get a full view that's readable. Modified TableRelation / "Removed…

The other day my fellow MVP Vjekoslav Babic informed us that the length of G/L Account Name in NAV 2013 has been changed from from 30 characters to 50 characters to which he added: In NAV 2013, this change is not only about G/L Account – the length of all Name and Description fields in all master tables has been consistently set to 50. ... and let me add that this also applies to all fields that, directly or indirectly, refer to/make use of these fields. Detailed analysis of all Text…

WHAT? Didn't he wait for me and ask whether he could leave? This is hurting us truly. This morning I stumbled across this topic in the Developer and IT Pro Help for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 (Beta) informing me (in my words) that GetUidOffset function in codeunit 1 has been replaced by the Start ID (UidOffset) option on the Alter Database window. This means that the UidOffset is now managed by setup instead of code. Which as such isn't a bad thing at all. In every customer database we can…

Whether or not you think SQL Server Express is worthwhile as a production database server (see some discussion on my first post on SQL Server Express) it will get installed on one of your systems when you install NAV when there resides no "regular" SQL Server installation (yet) on it. A trivial case might be the installation of NAV 2013 Beta on a virtual machine as in my own case. Now one major drawback of a SQL Server Express installation is that it comes without SSMS (SQL Server Management…