August 2014 – Page 2

Subcontracting Part 1: The Basics

This is the first part of a series of blog posts about the subcontracting functionality in Microsoft Dynamics NAV. It describes how to setup and use the basic functionality, which is something that is very common to use for manufacturers (3 out of 4 places I…

27 August 2014

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

Importing and Exporting Data in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 R2 CU 8

Two weeks ago Microsoft released CU8 for Dynamics NAV 2013 R2. This upgrade included the long-awaited Import and Export that is replacing the old FBK backup in the Classic Client. There are two ways to do import and export. One is through the Windows Client and…

27 August 2014

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

Dynamics NAV in C# | Part 1 | The Differences

Ok, when you make a promise you have to keep it, so here is the first article around C# and Dynamics NAV. The story is around my own explorations around C#, Visual Studio and .Net. Before you start working on C# as a Dynamics NAV developer,…

26 August 2014

ERP general

ERP Project 101: Challenging ERP Requirements

I am not arrogant enough to believe that ERP software vendors are the guardians of best practices. Nor do I blindly subscribe to the notion that the customer is always right. What I do know and believe is that a good implementation partner will balance customer…

26 August 2014

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

Localized views removed from NAV 2013 R2

In Dynamics NAV 2009 and older we had an option to maintain views in the database. Activating this caused NAV to create a view for each language and every table in the database. This is a useful thing if you are building BI on top of…

26 August 2014

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks Visual C# / ASP.net

Dynamics NAV is moving to C#, get ready to follow!

Ok, maybe the title is not to nice, but hey, I got your attention. Since the introduction of the Three tier environment, Dynamics NAV runs on C#. In the first versions it was hidden and closed, but with the intoduction of DotNet interoperability it is possible…

25 August 2014

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

The Next Upgrade Story – Data transfer code generation tool

Guess what, more companies are moving to NAV 2013 R2. I am about to start a data upgrade for a medium-sized Icelandic company. Doing a data transfer means that you need to compare the tables of the old version and the new version and where you…

25 August 2014