Do you work with enterprise resource planning (ERP)? Or maybe you’d like to? Be sure to check out this high-level overview of what Microsoft Dynamics NAV offers. Explore basic concepts and elements used throughout the application, look at user personalization, learn about sales and purchase processes, and much more, in this Microsoft Dynamics NAV training. … Read More →
When you edit a Document page, and have to add multiple lines, then you run out of space very quickly. Especially in Dynamics NAV 2015, where line totals are added at the bottom of the Lines tab: Did you know that, as from in Dynamics NAV 2013 (and later), you can use the Alt-F12 shortcut to … Read More →
Recently I switched to a new laptop, which has some great specs. One of them is a resolution of 3840 x 2160, which is great if you have multiple monitors attached. Only, there was one little thing that I found really annoying. The toolbars in Microsoft Office Word and Outlook always displayed with these big … Read More →
Get an overview of the exciting new features and tools available for Microsoft Power BI: live dashboards, interactive visual reports, the Power BI Designer and mobile apps:
If you have developed a report you will surely have experienced this annoying issue. Every time you perform the View, Layout action within the Report Dataset Designer and Visual Studio opens, you have to manually go to the View menu and select Report Data to be able to see the Report Data Pane. Then, because you … Read More →
This is actually a small post about the ProcessingOnly report property in Dynamics NAV. You probably already know that you can use it to create a report object that acts as a code unit, but with the advantages of using data items to create nested loops and a request page to allow for dynamics filtering … Read More →
Microsoft has made the new Power BI preview available for everyone. If you go here: https://www.powerbi.com you can create your free account to test out the new features of Power BI. Here you can download the Power BI Designer: https://www.powerbi.com/dashboards/downloads/designer so you can get started to create your own Power BI reports. Have a look here to … Read More →
Last year, when I was delivering a training in Tunisia, one of my students introduced me to a really nifty tool called Prism. I was immediately super enthusiastic about it because it brings some great features that you miss in the Dynamics NAV Development Environment. Have you ever wondered where an object is used? For … Read More →
These videos demonstrate how to build a Power BI Dashboard in Office 365 with Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015. … Read More →
Did you know that every time you open a comment in C/AL using the { you need to close it? Even if it is already nested inside an {} construction and/or in a // Because if you don’t, this will happen when you compile:
In Dynamics NAV 2013 R2 it is now possible, again, to implement Page X of Y for document reports. In previous versions of RDLC the problem was that in a typical document report the content of the body was put in a List container to implement the Number Of Copies option. Via the List we … Read More →
Plataan: Course 80433 Reporting in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 (Date: 08 – 09 Apr, Location: Hasselt) Reporting in NAV 2013 is perceived as one of the biggest opportunities while being a competence challenge at the same time. If you want to learn how to make state of the art RoleTailored client reports in NAV 2013, … Read More →
Microsoft has released new videos in the How do I video series on Microsoft MSDN, which you can find here. The project is a joint effort by Plataan and Microsoft, and I participated as a technical expert in charge of seven videos. The idea is to showcase a Dynamics NAV 2013 topic in 5-15 minutes. … Read More →
Imagine you have to create a report, for example a Document, and there’s certain information, like for example Sales Conditions, that only need to be printed on the footer of the last page. How do you do that in RDLC? A good thing is always to investigate if there’s a property that you can use. … Read More →