Programming Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 (bis)

I already blogged about the book I was going to read.
I haven’t finished the book yet, but I didn’t want to wait to write a review. Finishing the book will take me some more weeks because I am not reading it full time (lack of time) but I read it on my smartphone whenever I […]

Implementing Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 (bis)

I finished reading "Implementing Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013" about which I wrote in another post.
I took me a little longer than expected. Not because it so difficult to read but because of some private I have been very busy lately (both privately as for work).
As a rule, technical books have the habit of being a […]

“BLOB Reference”.EXPORT in servicetier

Question 1:
What happens if you compile these 3 commands and you are using the servicetier?
Object.”BLOB Reference”.EXPORT(‘c:\xx\y.txt’);
Object.”BLOB Reference”.EXPORT(‘c:\xx\y.txt’,FALSE);
Object.”BLOB Reference”.EXPORT(‘c:\xx\y.txt’,TRUE);
Answer 1:
You get this warning twice: “Function ‘EXPORT’ is obsolete for Microsoft Dynamics NAV Server.”
Question 2 (Surprised): Twice? Why not three times?
Answer 2: The first line (without the second parameter) does NOT generate the warning! And when running […]

NAV 2013 Windows Logins

I have been playing around a little with the different login types because (as usual) I want to do something abnormal unusual.
What do I want to do?
I have a Virtual Machine in which SQL Server 2012 is humming and also the Dynamics NAV server. This VM is NOT in any domain.
But I want to run […]

Changing the default action when using DOWNLOAD with RTC

As you know (at least I hope so), when you export a file with the RTC, the file is exported on the service tier. After that you have to DOWNLOAD it on your local computer.
The first time you do that, you are asked what you want to do: download or open it and if you […]

A message from Dan Brown, General Manager Dynamics NAV

This is a message to you all from Dan Brown General Manager, Dynamics NAV:
Hi, everyone.
Over the past several months the NAV team has worked hard getting ready to release Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013.  We’ve run hundreds of thousands of performance-, stress-, unit-  and regression-tests daily.  We’ve monitored the comments you’ve made on our first-ever public […]

NAV Techdays, the day after (well, less or more…)

It took some time before I wrote the after-event blog but I have been busy with work these weeks. And to be honest I had also to think a lot about what I wanted to write and how. This post is just the beginning.
First and for all, I have to congratulate Luc for the amazing […]

Import NAV2009+ objects into a NAV 50SP1

You probably know that it is possible to import NAV2009+ objects into a NAV 50SP1. At least if your 50SP1 has build 30488 or more recent.

But what you maybe don’t know is that there can be a problem anyway.
I had the following error:
There are errors in the text conversion (text no. 165-205 does not exist […]

Edit a non-editable field

You have a field in a table that has property Editable=No and you want to edit it. What do you do?
 
You go to object designer. Search the table. Design the table. Change the editable-property to Yes.
NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wrong! Wrong! Wrong!
 
There is a better way! Way better!
 
You go to object designer. Create a new form. Put on the […]

NAV2009 R2 Compile and save

There is something interesting with R2 that is very useful.
 
We have a customer where we use webservices and we wanted to send a routine that takes some hours to finish to be run in webservices so the NAS has not do it and the NAS does not wait for the end of the routine. So […]

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