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…
Fortunately for all Dynamics NAV pro’s, some years ago, PACKT Publishing stepped into the hole in NAV documentation that had been there for years. With their last book, written by my fellow country man Mark Brummel, another and persistent gap was filled: the one left between Implementing and Programming Microsoft…
Ever since, what in retrospect became, the final album of The Police, the concept of synchronicity has taken root in my every day conscious. Not something that is leading my ‘way of doing’ or whatsoever, but as some pair of glasses through which I observe life with amazement every now and then….
This morning I received an update mail from Microsoft support on a technical incident that felt I had logged ages ago. To be honest: it’s 3 months old, reported on April 13th of this year. A good old colleague is the Escalation Engineer (EE) on this, and as he handed…
In our onward going strive to get our verticals as efficient as possible on the market we were recently discussing whether we should continue our own Links feature or should abandon it and fully adopt the standard NAV version. One of the arguments against standard NAV is the simple fact that users…
Yesterday, Jill Frank, Senior Programming Writer for Microsoft Dynamics NAV, posted a blog on msdn How We Use MSDN Feedback to Improve Help. I would really want to encourage you to read it and pick the gauntlet she is throwing at us. As MS Dynamics GDL team member I was…
… and test. As you might have noticed: the sub title to my blog. [:D] Last Sunday's great 'pat on the back' from Vjekslav Babic (once again: thanx!) explicitly mentioned the test part of my blog and, to be honest, next to the fact that it made me somewhat shy, it also triggered…
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…
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…