PlaceInBottom in RDLC layout

A question I receive a lot from customers and partners is if there’s a way to implement the PlaceInBottom effect on a report in RDLC. As you might already know, in the Classic Client, which I should now call the Development Environment, in the report object, there’s a property called PlaceInBottom. It determines whether a footer [...]

Power to Navision

I know, officially it’s Dynamics NAV, but honestly, is there anyone in the real world that doesn’t still call it Navision? Anyway, this post is not about naming, it’s about Power. Yes, these days the new buzzword seems to be power. PowerView, PowerShell and PowerPivot to be more precise. [Ah, and PowerPoint, but that's not [...]

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Standard or Enhanced security in Dynamics NAV?

The latest weeks I have received  a couple of questions from various Dynamics NAV consultants regarding strange SQL errors Dynamics NAV was throwing. A couple of examples: Table XXXXX coes not exist. Cannot find the user ’$ndo$…….’, because it does not exist or you dont have permission. You do not have permission to execute table XXXXX. You [...]

Using a SQL view in a NAV 2009 RDLC Report

What if a user asks: Could you create a report showing the inventory by Item, but in all of our companies? Sometimes I see the strangest  and most exotic constructions or C/AL coding to answer these kinds of questions, when a more simple solution could do the same and better. In the ‘old’ days there [...]

Sql Server 2012 Launched !

I’m learning about #SQL2012 by watching video sessions at the #SQLServer 2012 Virtual Launch Event: http://www.sqlserverlaunch.com ! This whitepaper provides an overview of the new features, benefits, and functionality in Microsoft SQL Server 2012: SQL Server 2012 What’s New Whitepaper  

NAV 2009 Field Groups (DropDown) and the usage of Keys

Recently I had to change the list of available fields in a DropDown box on a page. As you might already know, a DropDown is a result of a field having a TableRelation. For example, on a Sales Order page there’s a field “Sell to Customer No.“. This field has a table-relation towards the Customer table and as a [...]

Why RepeatWith isn’t that interesting as it could be…

Recently I prepared a blog post about a property RepeatWith available in RDLC reports that has the potential to revolutionize the way that we create document reports in Dynamics NAV 2009. It went like this: When developing reports in Dynamics NAV you are sometimes required to show information, which is in the Dataset, on the [...]

Microsoft Dynamics Mayhem

Packt Publishing Celebrates its range of Microsoft Dynamics books/e-books all month! Packt Publishing is crowning February, Microsoft Dynamics Mayhem, and celebrating its range of Dynamics books/e-books with exciting discounts. As the leading publisher of Microsoft Dynamics books/e-books and a multitude of bestsellers on NAV, AX, GP and Sure Step, not only do these titles excel [...]

Experimenting with Table data regions

Did you ever had to outline information on a report? For example, the user asks you to move this field a little to the left or right, or can that textbox be a little bigger because sometimes it’s just not big enough? Or can you also add this information into that textbox, but don’t change [...]