As with Forms, an essential part of the Pages we build are the informational labels displayed. At MS we tend to call them in short UI strings. For the majority of pages these labels, including their (textual) content, are inherited from the table fields they are bounded to. However some parts of a…
Today we ran into some strange behavior of NAV pages. It all started with the following error message when my colleague Paul opened PAG42 (Sales Order): Impressive, isn’t it? After various detours we found out that this page had a duplicate of the following ActionGroup: Error on Duplicate ID Less…
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…
So there I was sitting, stuck on a process running on RTC, throwing errors that typically did not occur on Classic. No RTC specific debugger (yet). But … never to young to learn! Unless C# is like cipher to you, it's not to difficult to get things working and go for…
Through one of my German colleagues I stumbled over the Enable for Microsoft Dynamics NAV Server feature. One I hadn’t be aware of it before. We were discussing the upgrade of a solution to RTC and how we might use the warning messages thrown by the CSIDE compiler in the…
The version list issue I reported you on yesterday kept on lingering in my mind today thinking this should be fixed by MS and can easily be fixed! I wrote that … … we had various discussion between our GDL team and the build team that any localization of the TIF…
Little over a year ago I reported some errors in Version List in NAV 2009 SP1: a number of standard objects that my tool indicated as changed, but actually weren’t. Today I want to draw attention on Page objects that seem w1 only, but actually are localized. Check for yourself…
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…
Ever seen this screen? Me neither; until yesterday during an internal NAV Finance training session lead by my colleagues Ria Groen and Adriaan Holleman. Thanx guys! How to evoke it? On command prompt type: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Dynamics NAV\60\RoleTailored Client\Microsoft.Dynamics.Nav.Client.exe /? In your RTC shortcut set target to: “C:\Program Files\Microsoft Dynamics…
For the second time in little over a week I ran into the same situation where, after updating the CustomSettings.config file and restarting the NAV Server, RTC was still connected to the previous database. The first time this happened I eventually got RTC connected to the right database by restarting…