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...
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)...
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....
