February 2012 – Page 8

Web Reference vs. Service Reference, Part 2

A beauty of Web services is that they don’t need to care at all about who’s consuming them. Whether there is .NET on Windows, Java on Linux or some proprietary stuff on an iPad on the other end, they do exactly the same stuff. Bron :…

9 February 2012

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

Merge Tool’s channel – some other useful video recordings

Wanting to setup some manual for our customers on how to install a platform hotfix I binged for NAV installing platform hotfix and stumbled over this very instructive video by Per Mogensen. Bron : Van Vugt's dynamiXs Lees meer...

8 February 2012

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

TDD in NAV – Test #4

Where the previous test (test #3) was the sunshine (or happy path) scenario, our current test takes the rainy side. As such we will test that, when a user types in a doc. amount which does not equal the total amount of the (2) lines, the…

8 February 2012

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

How calendars are considered when calculating lead times

Lead time calculation is the calculation that takes place to calculate "Expected Receipt Date" from the "Order Date" or the other way around. Similarly, sales have the calculation to calculate "Planned Delivery Date" from "Shipment Date" or the other way around as well. Here, we will…

7 February 2012

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

Web Reference vs. Service Reference, Part 1

Once upon a time, Freddy has delivered a great series on connecting to NAV Web Services from a smorgasbord of technology flavors. If you are a .NET enthusiast, like me, the obvious choice is to connect through the tools that are at your disposal in Visual…

7 February 2012

Dynamics NAV & BC ERP general General

Neemt u uw Datamigratie serieus?

Datamigraties zijn vaak een sluitpost in de begroting bij bv. de overgang naar een nieuw software systeem. Toch ontstaan op dit gebied vaak tegenvallers in complexiteit, tijd en geld. Hoe komt dit? Onderzoeksorganisaties als Gartner zijn het er over eens dat er vaak foutieve aannames worden…

6 February 2012

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

Input check for text and code fields in NAV

In NAV there is often an issue with invalid characters when a user is using copy&paste with external programs. For instance when copying data from Excel. Fields that comes to my mind is address-fields on Customer and Vendor cards etc. Bron : Yet another NAV blog…

6 February 2012