September 2010

Special Offers for Microsoft exam takers – Hurry!

September 12, 2010

Are you aware of the Special Offers on Microsoft Learning Products? Well, you should be: Microsoft Learning website offers many fantastic bargains. There are two specific offers I’d like you to check, which are going to be there for a limited time only. Microsoft Certification Exam Packs with free Second Shot offers – Save up [...]

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Strange errors in RoleTailored Client RDLC reports

September 11, 2010

We old dogs really have to learn new tricks with RTC (RoleTailored Client), as I found out couple of days ago. A customer of mine asked me for a quick report. I don’t typically do reports, but I thought—“not a big deal, it’s just a report”—so I fixed it, tested it, made sure it worked, [...]

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Some more issues with my blog

September 10, 2010

“Perfect is the enemy of good”, a smart person said once. Another one said: “If it works, don’t mess with it.” So, I messed with it. I was trying to make it perfect. Over past couple of weeks, you might have experienced downtimes, or even errors such as 403 Access Forbidden or similar here on [...]

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Setup-dependent requirements

September 9, 2010

While designing a custom functionality for a customer, there was an issue with posting groups: the way the custom functionality was designed would result in value entries being always posted to a single posting group, resulting in inventory balances always going to the same inventory account. When I brought this issue to my customer’s attention, [...]

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Read-only user role in Microsoft Dynamics NAV

September 7, 2010

Microsoft Dynamics NAV comes packed with a set of predefined roles for many tasks such as editing or posting journals, creating sales orders, editing fixed assets, etc. It also comes packed with a SUPER role, which can do just about anything it wants. There are two problems with the SUPER role. They are kind of [...]

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Development best practices – the aftermath

September 6, 2010

So I would guess that was it. I’m just returning to Kristiansand, my Norwegian base, after delivering the “Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 Development Best Practices” course to a partner, my first custom-developed training ever. My impression is—mission accomplished. I was not sure at first how this would turn out. Teaching NAV best practices to people [...]

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Inventory value in foreign prepayment scenarios

September 6, 2010

I have this client who operates in very specific conditions: majority of their vendors are foreign companies which invoice them in a foreign currency (USD) and almost invariably ask for at least 50% prepayment. NAV can handle prepayments and foreign currencies like a charm—the issue lies elsewhere: the fluctuations of currency exchange rate can easily [...]

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Development Best Practices

September 4, 2010

“Best practices” is one of those beloved and hated concepts. There are people who just embrace “best” practices for the sake of their bestness. And there are people who just shun them for the very same reason—those know-it-alls who have opinion on everything and know it better before even learning about it. What’s-best-for-you-is-not-best-for-me kind of [...]

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Abusing filtering for a lightning fast posting setup

September 3, 2010

Microsoft Dynamics NAV Classic client has some features which are simply unbeatable when it comes to productivity and speed, one of them being primary-key filtering. When you set a single-value filter on primary key fields in a table, and then insert a new record in the same table, primary key fields are automatically populated with [...]

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