How to enable and disable service broker read more

NAV instantiates some temp folders and files based upon the combination of User Name and NAV Service Tier (NST). These cannot be shared. read more

The client Regional settings affect date and time interpretations within Dynamics NAV. The Region is easily set when using the Classic or Role Tailored Client (RTC). When using a Web Service its also easy, if you know how (like most things in life). read more

If you've struggled like me to define BI reports that contain default values for the Year, Month, Date then the following cube calculations might help. Just use these calculations as the selection when the report is defined. Then each time you open the report you'll be referencing the current Year and Month and not the ones you selected when the report was defined. read more

It is not unusual for your network security guys to force regular password changes. What is unusual is that once you changed your password you can no longer run NAV RTC. And receive the obscure message read more

As a regular user in NAV2009R2, attempting to Send a BizTalk document resulted in the error message. read more

If you want to make sure the "External Document No." is unique for each Sell-to customer, use the following code on the OnValidate trigger of the field "External Document No." in the Sales Header table (36) read more

The following pointers are little things we picked up while synchronising CRM 2011 and NAV 2009 R2, that were not well documented elsewhere. It doesn't cover everything - just the points that were poorly documented by Microsoft, or not obvious to us. read more

In the default installation just one NAV Server Service and one NAV Business Web Service is created. I have found that in real life you need more NAV Server Services, and then you can spread users across them. In one case I created 7 different instances. read more

When you upgrade your Dynamics NAV - SQL system to a later version make sure you also update the xp_ndo.dll read more

NAV 2009 R2 introduced a new data type - DotNet. Sounded like a good idea but was there any practical use for it? Yes there is. read more

You are trying to create a CSV file in NAV2009 using an XMLPort, but you want no field delimiter. read more

In an earlier post I gave the command for registering a compiled C# dll. The command I gave was incorrect read more

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Properties of controls can now be set dynamically. (Well, more dynamically then before). For example, the cells in a column (in a grid) can have a different editable value for each row. I'll describe a quick example of how to do this. read more

Creating a control add-in and compilde #c dll's read more

We recently replaced on SQL server with another. Ths involved server renaming and some of the Maintenance Jobs stopped running. We were unable to delete them through SQL management Studio. They can be manually "adjusted" and then can be deleted. The issue was that the Server name they referred to no longer existed. read more

Creating a menusuite and properties of links read more

Some handy tools/sources for learning about development with the RTC read more

Ever wondered what Application objects are include in the two flavours of Business Ready Licensing? read more