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 show more than one culture’s formats on the same report. In the typical report the … Read more
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 formatting options will often do the trick far more easily and without requiring the developer … Read more
Microsoft Dynamics NAV Payroll is a tricky part of the system and a tricky part of business. If you’re having issues with Payroll, you definitely want to contract with some experts to help you out. But, there is a tool in the system that will give you some extra insight into what might be going … Read more
The Microsoft Dynamics NAV Role Tailored Client has a great little part enabled by default, but likely under-utilized: The Microsoft Outlook part. By default, it displays a few folders, some Calendar information, and a few tasks: You can alter the way this is configured to be more adapted to your need. In the upper right … Read more
In the RTC, when you are going to enter data that refers to another table, you get a wonderful DropDown showing you extra info. For example, when entering a Vendor on a Purchase Order: You can quickly see all the Vendors, with the columns for their name, address, and contact info. As a developer, you … Read more
Dimensions and Funds are very powerful tools for financial tracking and analysis. These are well covered elsewhere in manuals and training documents when it comes to use, entry, and review. However, one thing I have found that is not covered very well is how dimensions on individual transaction lines of documents interact and relate to … Read more
What are Digest e-mails? Serenic Navigator offers the ability to have e-mails sent to users based on documents and transactions being submitted for approval. Historically, an e-mail is generated for each transaction at the moment of submission. In every version of Serenic Navigator since 5.0 Improvement 2, there has been a new set of frequency … Read more
In our previous post about the Change Log in Microsoft Dynamics NAV, we talked about turning on monitoring of the Payment Terms Code on the Customer table. Now you’ve gotten another request from that client that will involve updating the Payment Terms Code on Customers when certain things happen in the system, such as they … Read more
One of the things I’m frequently asked about is how to see if or when someone changed something mission critical. Microsoft Dynamics NAV has a built-in system for tracking changes to any part of the system, but you have to know how to configure it and how to read the results. Summary: Activate the Change … Read more
Any time you have to enter a DateFormula, such as Payment Terms or other places where a value such as “30D” would work, there are a few easy ways you can get the beginning or end of the current Year, Quarter, Month, or even week. Simply use: Period Type Beginning Ending Year -CY CY Quarter … Read more
