It has been a while since I posted an update on the Belgian Dynamics Community (BDC). You know, "the thing" that we (a few others and me) started two years ago. "The thing" .. being a community that organizes events (some info evenings about a number of topics regarding the Microsoft Dynamics products). In the beginning, it was all about Microsoft Dynamics NAV ... but now, also AX and CRM evenings are organised. So, I think we can say it has grown to a full worthy "Dynamics" Community, isn't it? You can imagine .. three products, 6 evenings per product per year is 18 evenings, plus some customer…

This week, there were many confusions about the VAT 2010 issue ... apparently people forgot to update the license of the customers. This license update is needed because of the fact new objects were created ... so a new range had to be supported. Quite logical, but not a cat thought of it (as they say in Belgium). You can imagine, upgrading all licenses of your customers might take a while .. especially when you know the EOC online app, and the flow to request the updates. Luckily, Microsoft is helping us out for this. All customers with an active BREP will be updated by them without request…

I don't know if you've ever seen a demo of the "Dynamics NAV 2009 SP1 Treemap"-addin. No? Here is a screenshot: It's actually another view on the "Customer List". People who have ever seen the Performance Point "TreeMap"? This one is quite the same. It gives you a customer list with the most important customer bigger then less important customers. In fact, you can set this up yourself with the parameters on top of the graph. This is Microsoft's explanation: The Treemap Business Data Visualization for Microsoft Dynamics® NAV provides a unique view on business data. It can provide insight…

When you're planning to print reports from the new RDLC layout, things have been changed. One of the things is: how do I print this damn report in landscape?? With the new matrix-report possibilities, one might expect to have too many columns to print it in portrait. Well, keep in mind that in the RoleTailored client, the properties PaperSize and Orientation (that we know as report-properties in the Report Designer) are obsolete. This means: you can do whatever you want with it .. the printout won't take these properties into account. So, how DO I set the size and orientation then? That…

Like Mark already mentioned in his blog : the first report-objects are available. This means some countries can finish the upgrade process for their customers. I'm posting this extra blog to mention to you that the table has been updated again … and now … the Belgian objects ARE available . I suggest you check this table on a daily basis to know if you can start the upgrades in your country Warning! Furthermore … watch what you're doing. If you're upgrading the reports now, see that the VAT Reporting of December 2009 is still legal. So, you don't want to update the report objects when the…