Here is an example of how to create a custom chart in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 R2 using the business chart control add-in that is provided by the Microsoft.Dynamics.Nav.Client.BusinessChart.dll assembly. It sounds complicated, but it is actually quite easy. The example shows how to create a work center load chart that shows available vs. allocated capacity on a day by day basis. If you have read some of my previous blog posts (the Custom Progress Bar or Interaction Between Role Center Parts) you know that I am working on a shop floor terminal role center (more for my own training)...
Here is a super simple, but very useful modification for displaying the rolled-up costs on the item card in Microsoft Dynamics NAV. The item table has 10 standard fields that contain the rolled-up costs that are calculated during a regular standard cost roll-up. Those fields are not by default added to the item card; just adding them is quick and adds lots of values to the users that are looking at the costs shares of 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....
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...
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...
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;...
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