This previous blog " NAV 2009 - The structure of reports in VS report designer " describes how to get data from your data items into the layout of a report in Visual Studio (VS) report designer. This time we look at how to control the iterations of a...

One thing is to make a report look pretty. But before you can do that, you have to make it work first. This post is about how to get the data structure right when designing reports in VS report designer for the new client in NAV 2009. If you are completely...

Microsoft Dynamics NAV has always had its own report designer. In NAV 2009 it still does, but in addition to this you can also use the Visual Studio (VS) report designer. NAV 2009 – both the classic and the new client – will still run reports designed...

A number of issues previously reported when running with Dynamics NAV 5.0 and using send-to Excel functionality, are now corrected. These issues include (among others): decimals exported as text, Item/Customer numbers exported as decimals, dates exported...

This post is part of " Overview of NAV-specific SQL features for application consultants ". You can back up your Microsoft Dynamics NAV database either from a NAV client or from SQL Server Management Studio. To restore a backup made from SQL Server...

This post is part of " Overview of NAV-specific SQL features for application consultants ". Before you can set up a user in Microsoft Dynamics NAV on SQL Server, you must create the user on SQL Server first. If you try to create a user which does not...

This post is part of " Overview of NAV-specific SQL features for application consultants ". If you receive a SQL Server database file (.MDF), then you must attach this to your SQL Server before you can access it. This is how to do that: 1) Copy...

Many people ask if it is possible to use Public Folders for data storage in regards to the redesigned Outlook Synchronization in releases after Dynamics NAV 4.0 taking into account that there are no conditions or filters set for the contacts entities...

This post is part of " Overview of NAV-specific SQL features for application consultants ". This post describes the steps needed to create a new NAV database from a NAV backup (.fbk) file. All the steps are done from a NAV client: 1) Start a...

This post is part of " Overview of NAV-specific SQL features for application consultants ". The newest versions of Microsoft Dynamics NAV require trace flag 4616 to be enabled on SQL Server. If not, then you will get this error message when you...

This post is part of " Overview of NAV-specific SQL features for application consultants ". Microsoft Dynamics NAV requires two extended stored procedures from xp_ndo.dll to exist on SQL Server if Windows logins are used. If these extended stored...

This post is part of " Overview of NAV-specific SQL features for application consultants ". It describes the simplest way to get SQL Server installed in a test environment. It only mentions the changes to the default installation options that you need...

As the title says, this post is not really for NAV developers, but for application consultants who don't use SQL Server every day but still need to know enough about SQL Server to at least get a Microsoft Dynamics NAV database to run on it. The challenge...

When working with the Outlook Synchronization using Dynamics NAV 5.0, Dynamics NAV 5.0 SP1 and Dynamics NAV 2009 (present release: CTP4) in an Exchange Server environment, the following very annoying error may show up in the Outlook Addin. The related...

If you are working in a localized release of Dynamics NAV with the redesigned Outlook Synchronization, I bet that you were dealing with a language issue. Perhaps you forgot to set the Regional Options for the NAS user account, perhaps you did not follow...