Let’s suppose that you have the following entries and what you need is an algorithm that will calculate the number of periods (months) between the End Date and Start Date and allocate the amounts equally for each period. Given: Result needed: How would you do this ? In this post I present 2 ideas about…
As you already might know, in the purchase/sales posting routines from NAV an additional temporary table Invoice Posting Buffer is used to group invoice lines by the fields specified in the Primary Key of Invoice Posting Buffer table (TAB 49) and then Post only 1 G/L Entry for each group of purchase/sales lines. In NAV…
Find out how NAV SumIndexFields Technology works. I used it in my Stock Exchange Bookkeeping Application in order to calculate fast the Average Buy Price.
I currently investigated the following NAV Error reported in a support incident: —————————— An attempt was made to change an old version of a Customer record. The record should first be reread from the database. This is a programming error. Identification fields and values: No.=’01121212′ —————————— This NAV error can appear on any record, I…
As a result of some bad development you might find yourself in the situation to have G/L Entries with a Dimension Set ID that does not contain or contains incorrect Global Dimensions 1 and 2. If you are new to Dimensions I recommend to first read my Dimensions Overview post. I had this situation and besides…
In November I attended NAV TechDays 2016 in Antwerp and one of my favorite sessions was the one held by Gunnar Gestsson about migrating to events. You can see and download the recording following this link from his blog. I liked a lot the efficiency test on 4 grouping methods that he made in the last…
In this post I want to present some sample Powershell scripts that I created to automate a couple of basic tasks related to Microsoft Dynamics NAV. Please change the parameters before you use them. Create new NAV 2016 Environment: restores specified database backup, creates NAV Server Instance, starts NAV server Instance Drop the specified database…
Many times when creating processing reports in Microsoft Dynamics NAV, after the report processes all desired data, you might want to display for the user a log with what happened or with the errors that occurred. You can use for example IF Not ExampleCodeunit.Run THEN store the errors (with the help of function GETLASTERRORTEXT) in a DotNet list, process…
In this post I will present some important information about the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Document Pattern. A document in NAV contains a Header with common data and one or more Lines. Each line is linked to the header. Let’s have a look for example at a Purchase Order. As you can see in the bellow image, a…
When I first started to work with MS Dynamics NAV, I needed to understand some of the most important concepts related to Dimensions: what’s the difference between global dimensions, shortcut dimensions, default dimensions, what are default dimensions priorities, what are dimension set entries etc ? I couldn’t find an article on the internet that demonstrates all these concepts starting with…