Only this week I found out that we lost some standard behavior of the MESSAGE function, on the road to NAV's new 3-tier architecture. Anybody noticed? CONFIRM vs. MESSAGE Most probably you know perfectly well that a CONFIRM and MESSAGE are functionally not quite the same. One has a Yes…
For one time analysis of data in NAV I always take the quick and easy route of copying data from NAV to Excel using the windows clipboard. Running the relevant table(s) from Object Designer, copy (preferably) all records and paste the whole bulk into an Excel sheet. It can take…
Recently I came across the following issue on RTC: Build a Page containing only captions for local language (let’s say DEU) Run RTC in local language Open the page Local Language Everything is shown OK like in the following screen shot. All UI string (captions) are in DEU, which is…
The other day I had the task to customize the Import Budget from Excel and Export Budget to Excel batch jobs. To incorporate changes made in Financial Management as part of a major add-on we are building. Although the add-on is directly implemented for RTC, I decided to first get…
Just a blog post for completeness sake, a sequel in my collection of How-to: Search …. Any classic client list window that does not facilitate the common Find dialog (i.e. system windows) displays similar behavior as I presented in two of my previous posts: How-to: Search a Field in Table…
I guess for all of us NAV pros Ctrl+F8 is one of those tools in our daily work that can be reckoned indispensable. Confronted with a record containing some mysterious data how often by default do we press this magic key combination to have a look at what’s behind. About…