Ever needed a quick and easy way to determine where a specific function is being used? Or a even a specific object? And not wanting to go through the hassle of setting up the Navision Developer’s Toolkit (NDT) or IDYN’s Object Manager? Well, consider to use the findfunc line command…
Yesterday I wanted to check something on RTC when I got this message: —————————Microsoft Dynamics NAV—————————The Microsoft Dynamics NAV Server cannot connect the Change Listener to SQL Server because of the following error: Cannot open database “Demo Database NAV (6-0)” requested by the login. The login failed. Login failed for…
Want to learn more about SQL Server 2008 Express? Still think it’s just nothing worth at all? Or …? Sit down and watch here. [8-|] Thanx to Beth Massi.
As I wrote last week in part 1 “…I thought I might spend a blog post (or two) and go into details including some sample coding (see Part 2)” and thereby putting myself in debt. So here I am with part 2. [:O] Since last week I had spent some time reviewing…
Like probably many of us, every now and then I sit down to search and browse through some of the old postings on dynamicsuser.net or mibuso.com. To learn new things, to get inspiration for a new blog post or just to see what’s going on. That’s what I did this snowy Sunday…
It’s good practice to program dialogs to inform users on the state or progress of a process. Like in standard NAV when posting a sales invoice: or a journal: But did you ever had to post dozens (or even hundreds or thousands) of sales invoices or journal lines? Or had…
I still recall, when I started using Role Tailored Client (RTC), that one of the things of that really surprised me was the error messages that appeared in the yellow ribbon. Well, it was actually not the message as such, or the yellow ribbon, it was more the fact that the…
The help provided with Navision/NAV has always been called online help to the dismay of some people as it really wasn’t on-line. Since almost a year, however, this ‘online’ help has been put on-line. And as I experienced, on some Dynamics User Group posts I took part on, that various developers and…
Both a Dataport and XMLport object can be used to import data into Dynamics NAV. And as with user input and code entered data we might need to validate the data imported to impose the necessary business logic. This can be achieved in two ways: either by programming a VALIDATE after the…
If you read Validating Data #3: Cascading VALIDATEs you know by now that a VALIDATE call comes with a price. So where possible the programmer should diminish the number of VALIDATE calls. Or “… to avoid the validate statement when populating records …”, as Marije Brummel puts it in one…