Jul 14

Microsoft just released the latest version of the object permission spreadsheet. Compared to what i have seen before i think this is a brand new edition with more features in it.

“The purpose of this report is to provide information on what ojbects are included within the modules for Microsoft Dynamics NAV” as follows:

  • Search for individual objects and review the modules that include those objects
  • Search for all objects included within specific modules
  • Description of RIMDX

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Jul 12

Microsoft Office Integration from Dynamics NAV uses stylesheets to transfer data to Excel and Word. If you are on a v5 database or higher this is standard functionality. If you have upgraded your executables, you will notice the new buttons in the toolbar, but nothing happens when you click them. In order to get them working you need to import some new objects, and add a couple of new functions to codeunit 1. The objects are:

  • Form 690: Manage Style Sheets
  • Form 691: Send-to Programs
  • Form 692: Import Style Sheet
  • Form 693: Program Selections
  • Form 694: Style Sheets
  • Codeunit 403: Application Launch Management

Most of this blog entry is really nothing hot of the press, but i found a nice little trick for getting the records inserted into the tables automatically.

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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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