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  • Blog Post: How-to: Use Ratio for ExtendedDataType

    Luc van Vugt
    Just an illustrative example of using the ExtendedDataType property on a field control and set it to Ratio . Try it yourself with this object file (in .txt format) and press F11 (or the Increase Progress action). Notes 0% equals to a (field) value of 0 or below 100% equals to 10.000...
    on 10 Jun 2012

  • Blog Post: Zetadocs Express - A New Chance

    Luc van Vugt
    Just over a month ago Equisys announced an update to Zetadocs Express. Seeing the official communications I knew I had the moral duty to go out and review this update even before Greg Cole, Zetadocs Product Manager, directly challenged me by e-mail, writing: This new version is more flexible in terms...
    on 6 Jun 2012

  • Blog Post: Where the <beep> is the Website Data Sources pane?

    Luc van Vugt
    I know, I am not the most experienced RDLC report builder around, and not a hard core Visual Studio user, except for using it is as my client for accessing TFS. Nevertheless I thought I knew my way with VS. Until this time when picking up RDLC report design and opening a RDLC layout in VS 2008, wanting...
    on 30 Mar 2012

  • Blog Post: Object Renaming Does Not Update Object Metadata

    Luc van Vugt
    While preparing myself for teaching a NAV Development class in over 8 years I stumbled across this issue various times. As the topic was already on my possible-subjects-to-blog-about list for so long it's clearly time now to write it. So what's this about? Never noticed that when you have...
    on 30 Mar 2012

  • Blog Post: How-to: Match Date Formats on Classic and RDLC Report Versions - A Useful Tip from 1CF

    Luc van Vugt
    Having troubles getting dates matched on hybrid reports (needing to run both on CC and RTC)? Well we did, or actually 1ClickFactory developers did when converting a bunch of our reports. On this matter they recently posted this tip that might be of help to you too: Matching Date Formats on Classic...
    on 2 Feb 2012

  • Blog Post: Zetadocs Express - A Missed Chance

    Luc van Vugt
    On October 31, months after MS announcement at Directions EMEA 2011, Equisys shipped Zetadocs Express , a freely available and low entry, light document management module for Dynamics NAV. It allows you to Drag & Drop any file onto a record in the RTC to store it in SharePoint Online, start a SharePoint...
    on 25 Nov 2011

  • Blog Post: Caption Selection Mechanism on CC and RTC

    Luc van Vugt
    Recently I came across the following issue on RTC: Build a Page containing only captions for local language (let's say DEU) Run RTC in local language Open the page Local Language Everything is shown OK like in the following screen shot. All UI string (captions) are in DEU, which...
    on 24 Nov 2011

  • Blog Post: Selecting a Check Box for Dummies

    Luc van Vugt
    I still recall the annoyance one of the first times I was going on the Internet having to enter some data, or more specifically having to select a check box. I was clicking on the label text next to it, but nothing happened. Having been raised on a Fat Mac (512 KB internal memory!) I was used to select...
    on 24 Nov 2011

  • Blog Post: Review: Steven Renders' Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009: Professional Reporting

    Luc van Vugt
    Steven Render s; what's in a name! I have to confess, a name I never heard of until only recently. I mean never before I had heard or read the name Renders, let alone Steven Renders. I guess I totally missed your no-advertising-though-advertising post , Waldo. And all of a sudden it popped up...
    on 27 Oct 2011

  • Blog Post: How-to: Add to Navigation Pane

    Luc van Vugt
    Like me, you might have been watching the RoleTailoring Microsoft Dynamics NAV recordings I pointed to some weeks ago and although most of it was very familiar "Laurel & Hardy"did surprise me with some tricks I hadn't known so far. Of course next to the fact that I value this recordings...
    on 4 Oct 2011

  • Blog Post: RoleTailoring Microsoft Dynamics NAV - some useful video recording

    Luc van Vugt
    I was pointed at some useful recordings on the Dynamics NAV ERP channel on you-tube about Role-Tailoring Dynamics NAV 2009. Thought it might be of interested to you, your colleagues or even your customer. Who and how Good content for the Role Center Efficient navigation Minimize keystrokes...
    on 28 Aug 2011

  • Blog Post: Why is Maximize missing on RUNMODAL page?

    Luc van Vugt
    My colleague consultant did pose this question this morning. Or actually he was expressing a disappointment both he and a customer were sharing that apparently any page activated through various line actions do open a page without the Minimize / Maximize buttons on the top right corner of the window...
    on 23 Aug 2011

  • Blog Post: RTC Actions and Images - What to use?

    Luc van Vugt
    Yesterday I took over some bugs from one of my colleagues. Among them one reporting an anomaly on page 30. Have a look: OK, hardly to be called a bug, but I have to agree with the bug reporter that it doesn't really look fancy, this quintet of those well known black pool balls. [For those...
    on 9 Aug 2011

  • Blog Post: Jorrit's Tip

    Luc van Vugt
    On May 19th the Dutch Dynamics Community gathered for their third event hosting parallel two sessions. One on RTC Reporting, by Willem Zijderveld , GAC, and the other on SQL Performance, by Ludo Van den Ende , SQL Perform. Downloads for both can be found here . In this post my short (personal) resume...
    on 8 Jul 2011

  • Blog Post: SQL Server 2008 Express #3: Developing RDLC Reports

    Luc van Vugt
    Wow, almost a month has passed since I wrote my last post here. A month full of work, among others taking our first steps in SCRUM planning. A spring month that felt like summer, spending a week in France cutting trees and, oops, cutting myself - don't worry, I am still there! So I am here again...
    on 27 May 2011

  • Blog Post: How-to: Make Sure Your Pages Can Be Translated

    Luc van Vugt
    As with Forms, an essential part of the Pages we build are the informational labels displayed. At MS we tend to call them in short UI strings . For the majority of pages these labels, including their (textual) content, are inherited from the table fields they are bounded to. However some parts of a Page...
    on 29 Apr 2011

  • Blog Post: BaIS #3: Pages and Controls with Duplicate IDs

    Luc van Vugt
    Today we ran into some strange behavior of NAV pages. It all started with the following error message when my colleague Paul opened PAG42 (Sales Order): Impressive, isn't it? After various detours we found out that this page had a duplicate of the following ActionGroup: Error on Duplicate...
    on 18 Apr 2011

  • Blog Post: What To Think of This? - A Tester's Nightmare

    Luc van Vugt
    The other day I had the task to customize the Import Budget from Excel and Export Budget to Excel batch jobs. To incorporate changes made in Financial Management as part of a major add-on we are building. Although the add-on is directly implemented for RTC, I decided to first get the batch job working...
    on 25 Mar 2011

  • Blog Post: How-to: Debug RTC

    Luc van Vugt
    S o there I was sitting, stuck on a process running on RTC, throwing errors that typically did not occur on Classic. No RTC specific debugger ( yet ). But ... never to young to learn! Unless C# is like cipher to you, it's not to difficult to get things working and go for it using these links:...
    on 25 Mar 2011

  • Blog Post: Some Notes on "Enable for Microsoft Dynamcis NAV Server"

    Luc van Vugt
    Through one of my German colleagues I stumbled over the Enable for Microsoft Dynamics NAV Server feature. One I hadn't be aware of it before. We were discussing the upgrade of a solution to RTC and how we might use the warning messages thrown by the CSIDE compiler in the Error List window as...
    on 11 Feb 2011

  • Blog Post: Error in Version List #2 on MS Connect

    Luc van Vugt
    The version list issue I reported you on yesterday kept on lingering in my mind today thinking this should be fixed by MS and can easily be fixed! I wrote that ... ... we had various discussion between our GDL team and the build team that any localization of the TIF data should be reflected in...
    on 22 Dec 2010

  • Blog Post: Error in Version List #2

    Luc van Vugt
    Little over a year ago I reported some errors in Version List in NAV 2009 SP1 : a number of standard objects that my tool indicated as changed, but actually weren't . Today I want to draw attention on Page objects that seem w1 only, but actually are localized. Check for yourself the following...
    on 21 Dec 2010

  • Blog Post: How-to: Zoom into Background Data on RTC

    Luc van Vugt
    I guess for all of us NAV pros Ctrl+F8 is one of those tools in our daily work that can be reckoned indispensable. Confronted with a record containing some mysterious data how often by default do we press this magic key combination to have a look at what's behind. About This Page Only late...
    on 11 Nov 2010

  • Blog Post: Command Prompt Arguments for NAV 2009 RTC

    Luc van Vugt
    Ever seen this screen? Me neither; until yesterday during an internal NAV Finance training session lead by my colleagues Ria Groen and Adriaan Holleman. Thanx guys! How to evoke it? On command prompt type: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Dynamics NAV\60\RoleTailored Client\Microsoft.Dynamics...
    on 2 Nov 2010

  • Blog Post: How-to: Change the CustomSettings.config file - Web Services

    Anonymous Anonymous
    For the second time in little over a week I ran into the same situation where, after updating the CustomSettings.config file and restarting the NAV Server , RTC was still connected to the previous database. The first time this happened I eventually got RTC connected to the right database by restarting...
    on 14 Jun 2010
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