Tips & tricks – Page 785

Implementing interactive picture in NAV

Some time ago I was solving the task to print some interactive picture inside the NAV report. It means that user should draw some picture, import the picture in the document and then print it. The picture should be imported in NAV database to have an…

30 June 2011

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

Tip: Formatting Decimals

Today I had a classic encounter with the FORMAT command in C/AL. One of my colleagues was busy generating an ASCII file from NAV in which he wanted to make sure a decimal value was formatted with a two digit precision. (ie. 1.1 should be formatted…

30 June 2011

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

How to Send an XMLHTTP Request in Dynamics NAV

Should you ever have the need to get a response from a web page and handle that response in Dynamics NAV, you could do this by sending an XMLHTTP request to the page then processing the response text as required. For this purpose we’ll define a…

28 June 2011

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

Send email with PDF attachment in NAV 2009

In this post I would like to explore the possibilities to create an email from the Role Tailored client and attach an invoice as a PDF file to the email, unfortunately we have do not have this functional build into our Demo application, but let me…

27 June 2011

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

Navision 2009 Request/Response Web Service Pattern Integration Project

In the past, I was writing some article regarding project integration with older Navision version. The article overall was about developing a web service extension for exposing Navision business process and data domain reach out to external. In Navision 2009 however, the web service existence really…

27 June 2011

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

Extracting and Assigning Blob Value via Reference Variable Type

Recently, I have been developing a batch job automation to extract/import Navision tables into/from xml format. Well it is not quite challenging if I have to use XML port object for each table and this is straight forward solution. However, in my case, I would like…

27 June 2011

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

Abusing filtering for a lightning fast posting setup

Microsoft Dynamics NAV Classic client has some features which are simply unbeatable when it comes to productivity and speed, one of them being primary-key filtering. When you set a single-value filter on primary key fields in a table, and then insert a new record in the…

24 June 2011