Wow, almost a month has passed since I wrote my last post here. A month full of work, among others taking our first steps in SCRUM planning. A spring month that felt like summer, spending a week in France cutting trees and, oops, cutting myself – don’t worry, I am…
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…
SoWeGatheredInTheVeluweHalInBarneveld. AsOurHostForTheEveningMarkWelcomedUsAll(PICTURE1). AndAfterSomeCommunicationFromTheBoard MSFTArneDeBooijGaveHisPresentationOnRoleBasedThinkingAndWorking(PICTURE2&3). AndThenItWasMy(NOPICTURE)AndArend-Jans(PICTURE4)TurnToPresentTheDeveloperUpdatesInR2. You might have guessed. In short: another succesful DDC event! [:D] Want a kind of replay? Go to DDC Downloads & Links for the slide decks.
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…
Last week I attended an internal event where during one of the break-out sessions my younger colleague Andreas Zippel did a very good presentation on RTC arousing quite some enthusiasm in the group. Worthwhile mentioning is that he only recently started working on RTC! Already working with RTC for a…
Wanting to prepare a nice RTC demo I recalled that freddyk had built a interesting example of how to manipulate NAV data through Excel. So yesterday I sat down searched for the relevant blog posts and … started reading: Edit in Excel Part 1 (out of 4) Part 2 (out of…