In my search for some information about getting Item Tracking via ADCS to work with MRP/MPS in Dynamics NAV i noticed, that when i searched for specific terms of functions in NAV objects a website kept popping up in the Google search results.
For some reason i had not really seen it before, must have missed a blog post about it :). It is basically a web based object model of Dynamics NAV. I know you can use other tools like Developers Toolkit to provide the same functionality, but having it online and available without any setups is pretty cool.
Last week while being onsite at a customers site, we suddenly needed the ability to compare 2 records to see if any changes were done to the data. We were using the Archive functionality for Purchase Headers, and due to some needed modifications (in the release function) we ended up storing a lot of versions of the same Purchase Header, even though no changes were actually made. With hundreds of Purchase lines and thousands of document dimensions, the Purchase Header/Line/Dimension Archive tables were suddenly almost 50% of the total database size!
Using the built-in string functions in Dynamics NAV usually gives you all the string manipulation options you need. But a common request is replacing a special char with a new string value. This example came from the previous post on 
Cronus was known as the leader and the youngest of the first generation of Titans to most people, but in the Dynamics NAV community it is known as the the demonstration company name for Dynamics NAV. It comes with its own CRONUS license, that allows you to testdrive the system. Most people think it only allows you to use it to evaluate the application features in Dynamics NAV, but it actually also allows you to test parts of the development environment.
Yesterdays post on assigning MenuSuite Menu’s programatically got a lot of hits, and i have been getting a couple of emails about how to create the data for the blob field. In this post I will show how to build the BLOB generator i Dynamics NAV.
The other day i was reading Mayank’s new blog 
Here is another useful tool made by Rashed Amini aka. ara3n, i often use, when i have to “retrofit” objects from a newer version of NAV into an older version. Im sure you have tried this plenty of times, importing a 2009 object into a version 5 database – causing a crashed client. This is due to some of the new properties/triggers in the 2009 client that did not exist in previous version. Luckily the FOB files are backwards compatible, but for the tables, xmlports and reports it causes problems. Forms, Dataports and Codeunits works just fine.
Yet another…! As a regular Dynamics NAV blog reader i am sure you have seen this before, in various flavors, but here is a simple yet powerful splash screen. The main purpose of this splash screen, has been to easily identify development, test and live database configurations, and also show information about the current object version in the database.
Since Dynamics NAV version 5, when RIM was introduced there has been the functionality for Data Migration and Master Data Templates. I have never really used the Migration tool, as it just seemed to be too limited, compared to what you can accomplish with standard dataports. During my last go-live the customer was using the Master Data Templates, which is a nice little tool – still with a lot of limitations.
In this series of posts “What is in your Dynamics NAV toolbelt”, i will highlight some of the tools i find very usefull in my daily work, and couldn’t live without. There are probably great alternatives to them out there, so please share your experiences with me.
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.
Just a quick post here serving as shortcut for implementing Microsoft Navision Mail.SmtpMessage in older databases. All it requires is these objects:
Over the years of working with NAV, users have always asked for ways to store their frequently used filters for reports and forms – eg. month end reports (A/R, A/P, Trial Balances), that often needs to be reported in multiple views.
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