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 →
I had the honor of working together with Plataan to help create a new training platform: Plataan.tv. On there you will find many training video’s you can follow at your own pace, delivered by experts (MCT’s and MVP’s), about different trending topics. The content is built from the standpoint of the user, in the language of a … Read More →
This video demonstrates how to upload refreshable data to PowerBi.com from Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015. For more information, please visit Microsoft Dynamics NAV Get Ready page http://aka.ms/NavGetReady.
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 →
Are you interested how you can manage reports from C/AL, then have a look at these How Do I video’s: How Do I: Manage Reports from CAL: RDLC and Word Layouts in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015 How Do I: Manage Reports from CAL: Usage Logging and Paper Trays in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015
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 →