Multiple NAV Builds of Web Clients
Ah, the NAV Web Client of forever unhelpful error messages: It’s not too hard to get things set up with it correctly once you’ve done it a few times. I ran into an interesting challenge this week, however. I…
Using Memo BLOB to Enable Huge Text
AUTHOR NOTE: 2021-02-10 – There is a Dynamics 365 Business Central Repo showing how to handle this in Business Central. I’ll try to update the blog with a new post walking through it, but it’s very functionally the same…
NAV Tip: Access Domain NAV from Non-Domain Computer
It’s pretty easy to run Microsoft Dynamics NAV (RTC or otherwise) as another user while you’re inside the domain (shift right click on most Windows machines to find a “Run as another user” option, if you did not know). We…
Dynamics NAV – Credential Type NavUserPassword Gotcha
This is not so much a training document as outlining how I had to troubleshoot a weird error. I think the process taught me a variety of things, so I wanted to share the process of finding the answer. I…
NAV Clean-up: Time Sheet and Job Ledger
Since Luc Van Vugt started the NAV Clean Team, I’ve been very lazy and emailing him little things I find. Now that I’m spending more time in NAV 2016, I’ll step up and start being more vocal on Clean Team…
Date Compress to General Journal
This tool works very similarly to the Date Compression functionality, allowing you to select which dimensions and what Periods you want summarized from a source company. The results are generated into a General Journal that can then be exported. Nice…
Announcing Realtime Object Usage Statistics
Realtime Object Usage Statistics is a Microsoft Dynamics NAV customization that enables tracking when users access Forms, Pages and/or Reports. This is accomplished by installing a small tracking code into every NAV UI object. The data is gathered into a…
Cultured Differences
Last week we discussed how to apply standard formatting codes for currencies and dates to Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 RTC reports. As I mentioned in that blog post, there are some hoops we have to jump through in order to…
The (Formatted) Numbers Game
Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 RTC report design using RDLC has a lot of flexibility when formatting dates, times, and numbers. While you can create custom number formatting (which we will cover in a future blog post) many of the standard…
NAV Concept: Closing Date vs Normal Date
In Microsoft Dynamics NAV, every Date has a corresponding “Closing Date”. What are they and what are they used for? Let’s take a look. You may see entries in your system like this: Notice the peculiar Posting Date? C12/31/2009? That’s…