The other day I was on a thread where the enigma of coding the OnLookup trigger came around the corner. It reminded me that this used to be a rewarding subject during the Solution Developer courses in those days. I would show the students a simple table/form combination with one…
While I was still fighting to get my reinstalled laptop doing what I wanted to, Mark took the lead in announcing our newborn dynamics community contribution: Dutch Dynamics Community. So now at the end of the day, though still fighting my laptop, it’s my time for some undouble dutch on this….
So we had decided to extend one of our add-on modules. And as it had been measured on the short side we had to apply for an extension of the number of objects. Simple as that … it seemed. So how to do that? PartnerSource surely would be of help,…
In my search for a NLD version of the Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 RoleTailored Client Terminology slide deck I was pointed by the Dutch MBS PMM Aldert Kadijk to a site I had never been aware of: Microsoft Language Portal. Next to the fact that you can search for any…
And so it seemed Mark and I were going to end up in a “Yes, you do” … “No, you don’t” quarrel about the need to reset object properties after importing a UI translation.[8-|] Let’s just take the perspective that we were at cross-purposes; langs elkaar heen praten as we say…
Did you ever use the ObjectTime tool? Or what I actually wanted to ask is: ever heard of the ObjectTime tool? Haven’t checked it for all versions but in general it is delivered as part of the UPGTK (i.e. Upgrade Toolkit) on the product CD/DVD: \..\UpgradeToolKit\Multilanguage Tools. It’s actually one…
Now you have selected a translation tool, how do you efficiently translate your application? Steps to Take Of course this depends on the way you have organized your development, but grosso modo I think it should be like this: Make sure your code (i.e. C/SIDE objects) comply to the following:…
Little over a year ago we had the need to partly translate the UI of a huge solution from our sister company from German to Dutch. Due to time constraints and my not-up-to-date knowledge about translation tools I searched for the Navision Localization Workbench (NLW), found it on mibuso, and…
After a long time I picked up one of my favorite tasks: building Online Help. Having said that I am quite sure a substantial number of you will frown as I know from the past it was not common that people around me did really like that. So why do I like…
Sunny Sunday morning. Everyone still dead asleep. Perfect time to pick up what I had started months ago: my HIRS@M series. Sorry for keeping you waiting. [:$] #1 – Purpose In this post I want to shed light on the purpose of reviewing specs. Reasons for which I value a…