How to OMA!

Time for a sneak preview of OMA9.
Did you ever realize that with the upcoming NAV2013 RTC it is probably more difficult for an end user to import a FOB. New users are not used to work with the Classic Client. It would be better if he could import the FOB with the RTC. Or the […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Sometimes it’s needed to export a bunch of records to Excel to analyze a problem. If it’s a small amount of data you can copy paste it directly from the table in Excel. But it happens a lot to me that I have to kill NAV after a couple of minutes because this approach takes […]

Cleaning up old functionality such as unused variables, fields and functions makes your code and objects better readable for other developers but can be risky if you remove too much.
The where used functionality can help you with this task. Let’s take a look at table “BizTalk Reservation Entry”. This table has all the right ingredients […]

This week I had to rename a couple of records in a customized table. When I tried to do this I was getting an error like “You cannot rename a blahdieblah”. In a default Cronus database something similar is written in the OnRename trigger of the “Fault Code” table.

In life without OMA you’ll have to […]

It happens too much that when I show the cool stuff of the Object Manager people begin to jump and shout ‘Wow, didn’t know that!’. I think the best way to share those timesaving tricks is to blog about it.
Let’s start with one that I don’t actually use that much but can come handy when […]