Jun 01

I was quoting an upgrade proposal for a client that had a lot of custom reports. Trying to identify which ones were actively being used today, the client did not have a definitive answer. So we needed an strategy to identify the reports that was being used. And at the same time we would like to know who used them, and how often – that way we could make a more qualified decision about the reports to upgrade.

Of course every report could be modified so it wrote to a report usage table (but that would require you to modify every report in the system). Fortunately there is an easier way to handle this. In codeunit 1 Application Management, the function FindPrinter():

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May 27

Having seen the roadmap for Dynamics NAV, the next stop was the release of NAV 7 in 2011 – the follower to NAV 2009. But the breaking news from last weeks EMEA Directions conference in Prague, was the R2 release of NAV 2009 scheduled for Q42010 (see Waldo’s post http://dynamicsuser.net/blogs/waldo/archive/2010/05/20/directions-emea-2010.aspx).

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May 26

How many times have you been trying to import a version of the “Available objects” reports that are on most of the NAV community sites, having it fail with your customer license file, since you don’t have permissions to the actual report id. And importing the text version of the object is not allowed either.

Here is a version of the available objects report, modified to be in the database as Report ID 1.

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May 25

Oopsie, my old blog broke down due to some changes my web host was doing while migrating to new servers.

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Sometimes force majeure is a great way to start over and do things better, and that is our current goal here on GotCAL.com. We will revisit some of our old blog posts, along with new exciting subjects.
In order to have things work smoother for updates and new posts, we have also migrated to the WordPress platform, and are now publishing via Microsoft OneNote 2010. I have a backup of the old site, and will post the old entries here as i get to them.

Welcome back to the new Got C/AL!

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