May 2008 - Posts

Dynamics NAV 5.0 and Style Sheet issues, issue with '/' character in customer(vendor) name
21 May 08 12:55 PM | jvukovic | 0 Comments   

When running forms like Customer (Vendor) Ledger Entries and Apply Customer(Vendor) Ledger Entries, and selecting: send-to Excel, the following error occurs if customer (vendor) name contains character '/': Problems came up in the following areas during Read More...

Filed under: Style Sheets

New way to initialise C/Front with VB in Sp1 (undocumented change)
16 May 08 02:15 PM | Lohndorf | 1 Comments   

In C/Front for Microsoft Dynamics NAV Version 5 SP1, it is no longer possible to initialise it in the usual way from Visual Basic. Often you would initialise C/Front like this: Dim CFR As Microsoft.Navision.CFront.CFrontDotNet CFR = New Microsoft.Navision.CFront.CFrontDotNet Read More...

Filed under: C/Front, undocumented

Comcom and the Bus adapter
13 May 08 09:21 AM | Lohndorf | 3 Comments   

This post is the second part of the post NAS Tutorial which is based on KB article 861762, previously published on PartnerSource. This post is an updated version, and available to a wider audience (no PartnerSource login required). This post describes Read More...

Filed under: Comcom

NAS Tutorial
13 May 08 07:58 AM | Lohndorf | 1 Comments   

This post is based on KB article 861762 which was previously published on PartnerSource. This post is an updated version, and available to a wider audience (no PartnerSource login required). It describes the basics of what Navision Application Server Read More...

E-mail logging when using Outlook 2007
09 May 08 08:41 AM | mmels | 4 Comments   

When time passes by and people started to update their Office environments with the latest Office release, we immediately saw an increase of cases coming in that state that with Office 2007, E-mail logging refuse to log E-mails when using the Application Read More...

Filed under: NAS, Outlook Integration

Synchronizing Tasks to Dynamics NAV 5.0 with linked contacts
09 May 08 08:17 AM | mmels | 1 Comments   

It has come to my attention that in Outlook 2007 by default Contacts are not linked to Tasks. Let's assume you have a salesperson that goes onsite to a specific prospect and that he agrees to follow up. So he creates a Task in Outlook. In Outlook 2003, Read More...

Filed under: OSYNCH, Outlook Integration

What exactly does COUNT count?
08 May 08 10:08 AM | Lohndorf | 4 Comments   

The command COUNT is pretty simple. But on the SQL option there are a number of different ways to count records, and each can give a different result. This is how the different ways of counting works in NAV on SQL: There are two commands you can use: Read More...

Filed under: C/AL, SQL