Several people that have read my previous post, Run Objects in NAV 2013 using GETURL, has asked me about the record deletion tool that I was working on. So, here it is! 🙂 It is available for NAV 2015 on the downloads page. This data deletion tool is useful if you want to ‘clean’ a company from transactional data. It could for example be that you have been testing transactions in a company that you want to use for a go-live or you just want to have a clean company without transactions for a demo, training or testing session. Here is...
A question that I receive frequently is; ‘how do I run Dynamics NAV as a different user?’. A basic question it seems, but not everybody is aware of how it can be done. It could for example be that you are testing permissions and you want to run one client with SUPER user access to do the permission setup and another client with limited access to test the setup at the same time. Another common scenario is that you want to debug something on a users computer and for this you need your own log-in to have full permission and access...
Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015 was released a couple of weeks ago. I have download and installed it and so far it seems like it can co-exist with Dynamics NAV 2013 R2 without any issues (which was not the case with my 2013 and 2013 R2 versions, so this is great). To me the improvements that the users will see (e.g. the functionality in the NAV clients)Â are the most important ones (and also the most fun to review). The improvements of the technology behind the scenes (such as OAuth support for web services, merge utilities, multi-tenant architecture, etc.) are also important...
This is something that I did some days ago and I thought it was creative enough to be worth a blog post. The task was to do a onetime mass update to the item records. There were more than 85.000 items in the company and they all had two production bin fields that needed to be updated according to a table with some rules provided in Excel. For items starting with ’10’ the two fields should be ‘RAW’ and ‘RAW’, for items starting with ‘11’ the two fields should be ‘TREATED’ and ‘CUT’, etc. like the below table, nothing strange. (more…)
Here is a small tip (some of you might already know it): the GETURL together with the HYPERLINK can be used to run objects in NAV 2013 (even tables 🙂 ). I am working on a tool to delete records from a database (to ‘clean’ a company from transactional data for example). Part of this tool is a function to view the data in the tables, and for this I needed a way to run a table from the NAV 2013 windows client (not the development environment). This turned out to be quite easy using the GETURL and HYPERLINK functions. (more…)
For those of you that are reading my blog posts you probably know that I have been working on a Shop Floor Terminal role center for Microsoft Dynamics NAV (mostly for my own training, kind of how I learn). I have finally got some time to finish it (was stuck at Tampa airport for 3 hours before a 3 hour flight, more or less an entire work day in transit), so here it is! The concept with the Shop Floor Terminal role center is to provide an interface for a terminal in the production where the operator can see upcoming...
One of the new features in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 is the ability to enter formulas like ‘%me’ and ‘%myitems’ while setting filters. Dynamics NAV then replaces the formula with values while applying the filter. Some of the formulas that comes standard are for example; ‘%me’ and ‘%user’ will be converted in to the USERID, ‘%company’ will be converted into the COMPANYNAME, ‘%myitems’ will be converted into a string with the item numbers you listed in the My Items role center part (same goes for ‘%mycustomers’ and ‘%myvendors’). This is nice but what is great is that you can also...
I have never used Microsoft OneNote that much, never really seen a need for it (I usually just have my notes in Word). So, when Microsoft announced that there will be a OneNote integration with Dynamics NAV last year I didn’t think that much about it. But when I finally tried it out myself I was very impressed. I saw a very usable tool for both capturing comments/files related to entities NAV and for doing company specific instructions for the different parts of the application. The OneNote notes can be related to individual records or to a page in Dynamics NAV. (more…)
A common request is to activate item tracking (lot numbers and/or serials numbers) for items that already have transactions (item ledger entries). In Microsoft Dynamics NAV you can’t really do this without going ‘behind the scenes’ and tweaking the data. What I have done a couple of times is to change the check on the item tracking code to only check for open item ledger entries. This way you can adjust the inventory out, change the item tracking code, and then put the inventory back in with the lot and/or serial numbers. This is a one line code change that...
Here is a small trick that I have used a couple of times to turn the report selections into a selection dialog in Microsoft Dynamics NAV. The report selection table in Dynamics NAV is used to specify what report(s) to run when a user prints a document such as an order confirmation. Part of the report selection functionality is the ability to define more than one report to print at the same time; you can for example have Dynamics NAV print three different documents when the user prints an order confirmation. This is done by listing the reports in the...
