One of the new reports in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 is the BOM Cost Share Distribution Report that came with the assembly functionality. It is a great looking report, and what makes it even better is that it does not only work with assembled items but also with manufactured items. (more…)
I thought it would be cool to be able to get the role center parts to interact with each-other in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 R2. I wanted to see if it was possible to have a role center part to display different information based on what was highlighted in another role center part. This way the role center itself would become more interactive. To test this I wanted to have a role center part with a task list for a work center and based on what operation that was highlighted the related components from the production order should be displayed in another role center part....
In school we where told that when you invoice (voucher) received inventory you get a debit transaction against the inventory account and a credit transaction against the accounts payable. Well, in Microsoft Dynamics NAV you also get two transactions in the P&L, a debit against the purchase account and a credit against the direct cost applied account. What are those used for? Wouldn’t they always be the same and net each-other out? Not necessarily. There is a special case to consider where the two transactions in the P&L are not the same and therefore a discrepancy between the two accounts will occur....
Here is an example of how you can create a customized progress bar in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 R2. It uses the System.Drawing.Graphics .net method to draw a progress bar and display it to the user in a BLOB field. This method can basically be used to generate any type of graphic and display it in Dynamics NAV, which is very useful. The scenario in the below example uses a work center task list that displays all operations for a specific work center. The task list should include a progress bar showing the statuses for all the operations of the production order. The status bar will...
In one of my earlier blog posts, Dimensions on Production Orders, I described how the dimensions on the production orders in Microsoft Dynamics NAV gets populated and posted. In that blog post I described that the dimensions on the production order components are inherited from the production order lines and therefor the consumption is posted with dimensions according to the default dimensions of the output item. If this is not wanted (which is quite common) then Dynamics NAV can easily be changed to accommodate posting consumption with dimensions according to the components instead. Here is one way of doing it....
You can run production in Microsoft Dynamics NAV with only production BOMs and without any routings. A reason for this is typically that you don’t have a requirement to capture capacity costs (labor and overhead) and you don’t want to do any scheduling of work centers or machine centers. This kind of makes sense because you don’t want to make the configuration in Dynamics NAV more complicated than it needs to be. But one thing that most people forget is that you can only back-flush the output if you use routings in Dynamics NAV. More information about flushing is in one of...
Some weeks ago I came across a requirement to be able to display GD&T symbols in the windows client of NAV 2013 R2 (as part of a quality control system). It sounded easy since the symbols was generated by a string of regular characters displayed with a special font. In the classic client it would just have been to change the font of the text box and it would probably have worked, but it is not that easy in the 2013 version of Dynamics NAV (and I believe the same applies to the NAV 2009 RTC client). But as always, most of...
How do I get the Equisys ZetaDocs add-on to work with the Tectura Document Configurator? There are some tricks to know, but once you know them it is actually easier then making it work with the standard Microsoft Dynamics NAV reports (and less object changes required). ZetaDocs is a document management add-on that among other things provides functionality to e-mail and apply templates (stationery and attachments) to documents printed from Dynamics NAV. The Document Configurator is an add-on that controls the content and layout of the documents through a configuration in Dynamics NAV (and therefor eliminates the hassle of Visual...
The Change Log in Microsoft Dynamics NAV is used to log inserts, modifications and deletions of records. This is very useful and can be an option for the users to see who created the record, what was the value of a field before, when was the last modification made, etc… If it is going to be used this way (and not only for auditing once a month) then you probably want to add an action in the Ribbon to display the Change Log Entries for the record that the user is looking at. There are two ways to do this;...
In the manufacturing part of Microsoft Dynamics NAV there are two Lot Size fields; one is on the item or stockkeeping unit card and the other one is on the routing line. Do you know what they are used for? Here is an explanation for both of them and a trick how one of them can be applied to a common requirement. (more…)
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