February 2012 – Page 5

Every time you write a line of C/AL

My plea to you all in this article is to stop what you are doing. Lay down your keyboards and sit a while to contemplate. OK, no fluffy kittens are really going to suffer, but the time has come to take stock and ponder a life…

17 February 2012

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

Statement of Directions for NAV ‘7′ Updated!

There is a new only-19-page Statement of Direction published by Microsoft for Dynamics NAV ‘7′. This document exists (as Paul White states in the movie that is part of the download) for sharing with the customers .. and has been designed to make it readable as…

16 February 2012

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

Using Web Services for your NAS jobs

In NAV 7 the NAV Application Server will no longer be supported. The Job Queue has been redesigned to support the new CREATESESSION feature that will create a new session on the service tier to execute a given task. Bron : Gunnar's Blog Lees meer...

16 February 2012

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

What’s Wrong with This Picture? (2)

The text constants in the image above are used to import or export an XML file. Please note that the opening and closing brackets (< and >) were introduced by C/SIDE (to indicate that the text constant values are entered in another language, and no corresponding…

15 February 2012

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

Writing to a text file

In Classic Client we are used to use the variable type File to write to a text file. In these cases we have had to convert the Icelandic characters from CP850 to ISO-8859-1 for this to be saved correctly. Bron : Gunnar's Blog Lees meer...

15 February 2012

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1

I need to create a XML document with ISO-8859-1 encoding. This option is not available in XML Ports so what can you do? Bron : Gunnar's Blog Lees meer...

15 February 2012

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

Use Open Office instead of Microsoft Office

Add the following keys and values in the registry: Key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\winword.exe] Value name : (Default) Value data: C:\Program Files\Open Office\program\swriter.exe (use the correct path!) Key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\excel.exe] Value name : (Default) Value data: C:\Program Files\Open Office\program\scalc.exe (use the correct path!) After this you can use…

15 February 2012