Archive for July, 2012

Checking Where Used 100 Times Faster in OMA8.5

Thursday, July 26th, 2012

Oh my! Do I like this new feature of OMA8.5!
In previous versions of the OMA you had to wait like 10 seconds if you opened a part of the OMA that needed up to date where used data. Doing that all day long it was pretty frustrating some times. This is no longer needed. The […]

Aaargh! Where is that COMMIT?

Saturday, July 21st, 2012

This trick has nothing to do with the OMA but I really want to share it. Did you ever had to search for a COMMIT? The command CONSISTENT can help you with that.
This command is specially build to make sure that at the end of a transaction the G/L Accounts are in balance. In codeunit […]

Bye Bye NAV Development Environment

Saturday, July 14th, 2012

I just read in the blog of Luc van Vugt that the development environment of NAV will be transferred to the RTC.
I think this is great news. The way we have to develop in NAV2013 where the testing and tooling is in the RTC and the developing is done separately in the dev-env is almost […]

Stick to the Guidelines!!

Friday, July 13th, 2012

In my opinion all NAV developers should write code in a way that it’s easy to read for other developers. There is only one way to do that: Stick as close as possible to the coding standards that are described in the “C/AL Programming Guide”.
No Hungarian Notation, no strange indentation or other strange constructions. All […]

Win the New Microsoft Surface Tablet!

Friday, July 6th, 2012

So, now is your chance to win the new Surface tablet. With Object Manager Advanced 8.5 releasing on July 16th, the product is getting richer and richer in functionality. For the ones who’ve missed it, here is the changes list: http://www.idyn.nl/products/objectmanageradvanced/Version-8-5.aspx
However, we want to hear from you what you would like to see in the […]