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Custom Progress Bar in Dynamics NAV 2013 R2

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 […]

By Olof Simren May 6, 2014 Development, General, Manufacturing, Miscellaneous 6 Comments

Default Dimension Priorities for Production Order Components

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.

By Olof Simren May 4, 2014 Development, Finance, Manufacturing 1 Comment

Simple Production with Generic Backflush Routing

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 […]

By Olof Simren May 1, 2014 Manufacturing 4 Comments

Display Symbols and Different Fonts in Dynamics NAV 2013 R2

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 […]

By Olof Simren April 29, 2014 Development, General, Miscellaneous 8 Comments

Equisys ZetaDocs with Tectura Document Configurator

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 […]

By Olof Simren April 27, 2014 Development, General No Comments

View Change Log from Ribbon

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; […]

By Olof Simren April 25, 2014 Development, General, Miscellaneous 5 Comments

Production Lot Sizes

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.

By Olof Simren April 24, 2014 Manufacturing 14 Comments

Create Production Order from Sales Order for Partial Quantity

Most of us know that you can create production orders from sales orders in Microsoft Dynamics NAV. When doing this the production orders are reserved against the sales order lines and they also inherits the dimensions from the sales order lines. The quantity on the production orders equals the base quantity on the sales order lines and the due dates of the production orders becomes the shipment dates backdated by the default safety lead time defined in the manufacturing setup. For make-to-order environments this is great and creating the production orders from the sales orders quite often becomes the handover […]

By Olof Simren April 21, 2014 Inventory, Manufacturing, Sales 6 Comments

Bill-to vs. Sell-to Customer

This is an old but still relevant topic; on sales documents (quotes, orders, invoices, return orders, etc.) in Microsoft Dynamics NAV you have the option to specify a separate bill-to customer. The bill-to customer is obviously who gets the invoice and where the accounts receivables end up, while the sell-to customer is who you are selling to. Having a separate bill-to for some customers is a quite common requirement. In addition to the sell-to and bill-to customer there is also a ship-to address that is used to specify where the shipment is going. There are some things that you need […]

By Olof Simren April 17, 2014 Sales 8 Comments

NAV 2013 R2 Help Server Host Name

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 R2 has a web based help system; this is great since it is now much easier to modify the help to include company specific instructions (gone are the old .chm help files) and users can use their web browser to bookmark the help, etc.. If you want to change the host name for the help server on an existing NAV client installation you can do this by changing the ClientUserSettings.config file.

By Olof Simren April 13, 2014 General No Comments

Olof Simren - Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Blog

Custom Progress Bar in Dynamics NAV 2013 R2

Default Dimension Priorities for Production Order Components

Simple Production with Generic Backflush Routing

Display Symbols and Different Fonts in Dynamics NAV 2013 R2

Equisys ZetaDocs with Tectura Document Configurator

View Change Log from Ribbon

Production Lot Sizes

Create Production Order from Sales Order for Partial Quantity

Bill-to vs. Sell-to Customer

NAV 2013 R2 Help Server Host Name

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