Having worked in the Microsft Dynamics NAV (Navision) community for more than 12 years, I have seen many changes in the software, but none more confusing, yet strikingly brilliant in its marketing prowess, than the name change to “Dynamics.” Now when I say confusing, I mean confusing in the sense that it is ridiculously confusing… Continue reading Dynamics NAV 2015: Confusingly Brilliant Dating using NAV CRM
ArcherPoint Dynamics NAV Developer Digest – vol 43
The ArcherPoint technical staff—made up of developers, project managers, and consultants – is constantly communicating internally, with the goal of sharing helpful information with one another. As they run into issues and questions, find the answers, and make new discoveries, they post them companywide on Yammer for everyone’s benefit. We in Marketing watch these interactions… Continue reading ArcherPoint Dynamics NAV Developer Digest – vol 43
ERP Implementations and House Building – Phase 4: Decisions
In this multi-part blog series, Alan Lyczkowski discusses the many surprising parallels that can be drawn between an ERP implementation and the process of building a house. NOTE: If you’re just joining us for the series, you can read the first four installments here: Introduction, Phase 1: Analysis, Phase 2: Shopping, and Phase 3: Choosing… Continue reading ERP Implementations and House Building – Phase 4: Decisions
On Repurposing NAV Table Fields, or The Forbidden Fruit of Danger
Sometimes, there’s a request to add a new field to a Microsoft Dynamics NAV (Navision) table. You might hear that request and think, “Hey, I don’t need to actually add a new field for that. I can just re-use a totally different field and change the caption and it will be fine. We’re not using… Continue reading On Repurposing NAV Table Fields, or The Forbidden Fruit of Danger
ArcherPoint Dynamics NAV Developer Digest – vol 41
The ArcherPoint technical staff—made up of developers, project managers, and consultants – is constantly communicating internally, with the goal of sharing helpful information with one another. As they run into issues and questions, find the answers, and make new discoveries, they post them companywide on Yammer for everyone’s benefit. We in Marketing watch these interactions… Continue reading ArcherPoint Dynamics NAV Developer Digest – vol 41
Using the Application Profiler to Run Code Coverage in NAV 2013 R2
Previous versions of Microsoft Dynamics NAV (Navision) provide a code coverage tool that is used to trace C/AL Code, and developers had the ability to scan a piece of code which is executed during an action. This was a very helpful debugging tool. Even in NAV 2013, Microsoft shipped the Application tool set with this… Continue reading Using the Application Profiler to Run Code Coverage in NAV 2013 R2
ArcherPoint Dynamics NAV Developer Digest – vol 40
The ArcherPoint technical staff—made up of developers, project managers, and consultants – is constantly communicating internally, with the goal of sharing helpful information with one another. As they run into issues and questions, find the answers, and make new discoveries, they post them companywide on Yammer for everyone’s benefit. We in Marketing watch these interactions… Continue reading ArcherPoint Dynamics NAV Developer Digest – vol 40
NAV 2015 Application Simplification feature: Auto-fill the No. Field
Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015 has many new features, one of which applies to various static and transactional pages. This feature is called Application Simplification (Microsoft calls it Simplified UX). The benefit of this feature is that Auto Filled No. fields for documents with unique number series make it faster to process since those fields can… Continue reading NAV 2015 Application Simplification feature: Auto-fill the No. Field
Creating Production Orders in Bulk Using the NAV Planning Worksheet
We have a couple of clients that have not yet gone live with the MRP (Planning Worksheet) functionality in Dynamics NAV. They determine the need for Production Orders outside of Dynamics NAV and then create the production orders one at a time in NAV. There are times when they create over 100 production orders in… Continue reading Creating Production Orders in Bulk Using the NAV Planning Worksheet
ArcherPoint’s Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015 Favorites
With all the talk of Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015 swirling in the community, we took to our own community here at ArcherPoint to see what our developers and internal end users are most excited about. Yes that’s right; we too use NAV and have made the upgrade to NAV 2015. We shared some of our… Continue reading ArcherPoint’s Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015 Favorites