Cumulative Update 1 for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 has been released and this means that as from now you can use Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition to design your RDLC reports.
Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 has been released, as you might have noticed on many MVP-blogs and on the Microsoft Azure platform there’s now also a Dynamics NAV 2016 template available in the gallery: It contains NAV 2016 pre-installed, which you will find in the menu under D: In the C:\DEMO folder you will find setup … Read More →
I’m very excited to announce the coming release of my new book: Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015 Professional Reporting. Because of the success of Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009: Professional Reporting, I was asked to create an update towards Dynamics NAV 2015. I gently declined this request and proposed instead to completely rewrite the book. The reason was simple. … Read More →
Dynamics NAV is full of features to make life easier for users and developers. One of these little gems is the F2 key. In the help about this shortcut it simply says: Edit. But did you know that is has some undocumented features as-well? In the Dynamics NAV application: When you navigate to a field, … Read More →
This week at the Microsoft Partner Conference, ‘NAV Corfu’ was announced officially as: Dynamics NAV 2016. I was not able to be there this year, but via twitter and the great blogs of several Dynamics NAV MVP’s (Mark Brummel, Aleksandar Totovic, Waldo), the information is getting released. Exiting is that you can, if you are … Read More →
In the old days there was a property named BlankZero which we could enable on a field in the section designer. In RDLC however there’s no such thing. To overcome this problem Microsoft has added a BlankZero function in the Code tab of a report. There’s a good explanation of how to implement this here: How … Read More →
It has been a very long time since I last created a Dataport and this week I had to create one for a customer who’s running on version Dynamics NAV version 5… No problem, I created it and to make it flexible for the user I added some textboxes with lookups on the request form … Read More →
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 →
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 →
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 →