At our shop, we were doing a real big upgrade – Classic NAV (no SQL) all the way up to 2018. We hit a weird error message about the Locked and Locked By fields missing when trying to modify any records: Since our upgrade lead hadn’t seen “Invalid column name ‘Locked’” before, and neither had … Read more
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 needed to setup different build versions of the WebClient on the same box. A customer … Read more
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 had a situation come up where, for training purposes, it was necessary to use a … Read more
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 was trying to setup a new Dynamics NAV 2016 service tier in a test environment … Read more
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 a Closing Date. NAV handles them as a special date that is after 12/31/2009 but … Read more
