Jul 18

I recently got the test credentials for the Saasplaza RTC testdrive that i have blogged about earlier (App-V streaming of Dynamics NAV) and decided today to give it a quick spin. Along with the install there is a great installation guide for the software that provides very easy to follow step by step installation for both XP and Win7 workstations. I did the Win7 x64 installation, and it took approx. 5 minutes to setup.

Installation is basically

  • downloading the Microsoft Application Virtualization client
  • setup credentials
  • Setup serverinformation
  • Download updates

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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 29

Just a quick post here serving as shortcut for implementing Microsoft Navision Mail.SmtpMessage in older databases. All it requires is these objects:

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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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