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The idea is to provide information about Microsoft Dynamics NAV and surrounding technologies from personal experience and from a practical point of view. The focus is on Reporting and Business Intelligence for Dynamics NAV.

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  • Learn to report in Dynamics NAV 2013 by Plataan

    Posted 1 month ago
    by Steven Renders Steven Renders
    Plataan: Course 80433 Reporting in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 (Date: 08 – 09 Apr, Location: Hasselt) Reporting in NAV 2013 is perceived as one of the biggest opportunities while being a competence challenge at the same time. If you want to learn...

  • How Do I video series about Dynamics NAV 2013

    Posted 1 month ago
    by Steven Renders Steven Renders
    Microsoft has released new videos in the How do I video series on Microsoft MSDN, which you can find here. The project is a joint effort by Plataan and Microsoft, and I participated as a technical expert in charge of seven videos. The idea is to showcase...

  • 2013!

    Posted 4 months ago
    by Steven Renders Steven Renders
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  • Show a Footer Only on the Last Page?

    Posted 5 months ago
    by Steven Renders Steven Renders
    Imagine you have to create a report, for example a Document, and there’s certain information, like for example Sales Conditions, that only need to be printed on the footer of the last page. How do you do that in RDLC? A good thing is always to...

  • Get Trained on Dynamics NAV 2013!

    Posted 5 months ago
    by Steven Renders Steven Renders
    Are you interested in Dynamics NAV 2013? Would you like to get the latest in depth information on what’s new functional and technical? Then this might be very interesting… MICROSOFT DYNAMICS NAV 2013 APPLICATION BOOTCAMP This  NAV 2013...

  • My Toolbox is empty?

    Posted 6 months ago
    by Steven Renders Steven Renders
    A couple of days ago when I was delivering a Report Design in Dynamics NAV 2009 training one of the students had a very strange problem. Being an experienced trainer I thought I had seen all possible bugs and ‘undocumented features’ of the...

  • Packt Publishing reaches 1000 IT titles and celebrates with an open invitation

    Posted 7 months ago
    by Steven Renders Steven Renders
    Birmingham-based IT publisher Packt Publishing is about to publish its 1000th title. Packt books are renowned among developers for being uniquely practical and focused, but you’d be forgiven for not yet being in the know – Packt books cover highly specific...

  • The Pace of Innovation: Does Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 Offer the Right Reporting Solutions?

    Posted 10 months ago
    by Steven Renders Steven Renders
    It’s been a couple of weeks now since Decisions Spring 2012 and unfortunately I was unable to attend the Q&A after my presentation and also had to miss the Expert Panel. As an alternative I will provide answers to some of the most interesting...

  • No execute permission on ” CodeUnit with ID 1.

    Posted 10 months ago
    by Steven Renders Steven Renders
    A very strange message appeared when a user tried to connect to the test environment with the RoleTailored Client: (the server name is grayed-out for privacy reasons) What happened? Well, before ‘the change’ all users had the SUPER...

  • The RoleTailored Client crashes on Customize This Page in a Role Center

    Posted 10 months ago
    by Steven Renders Steven Renders
    This is a quick post about a problem I encountered a couple of times and the solution I found. When you run the RoleTailored Client (RTC) and in the Role Center page you try to “ Customize this page “: then the RoleTailored Client crashes...

  • Descisions Spring 2012

    Posted 11 months ago
    by Steven Renders Steven Renders
    Dynamics NAV Day at Decisions Spring 2012 is June 20, 2012. You can register here for the event.  Have a look at the sessions & agenda: here And did I mention it’s a virtual conference (free of charge). Like last time, there’s also...

  • Where are my captions?

    Posted 11 months ago
    by Steven Renders Steven Renders
    Recently I was contacted by a fellow blogger , who had been scratching his head because of disappearing labels. The report in question was, for some unknown reason, not displaying all captions. It was a report with multiple data indented items. The...

  • GetUidOffset()

    Posted over 1 year ago
    by Steven Renders Steven Renders
    Something new I learned this week  is that appareantly there’s a function GetUidOffset in CodeUnit1 (and it has been there for a couple of versions). GetUidOffset EXIT(0); // =0 --> control- and variable ids are assigned // based on license...

  • PlaceInBottom in RDLC layout

    Posted over 1 year ago
    by Steven Renders Steven Renders
    A question I receive a lot from customers and partners is if there’s a way to implement the PlaceInBottom effect on a report in RDLC. As you might already know, in the Classic Client , which I should now call the Development Environment , in the...

  • Power to Navision

    Posted over 1 year ago
    by Steven Renders Steven Renders
    I know, officially it’s Dynamics NAV, but honestly, is there anyone in the real world that doesn’t still call it Navision? Anyway, this post is not about naming, it’s about Power . Yes, these days the new buzzword seems to be power...

  • Earth hour 2012 participate now !

    Posted over 1 year ago
    by Steven Renders Steven Renders
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  • Standard or Enhanced security in Dynamics NAV?

    Posted over 1 year ago
    by Steven Renders Steven Renders
    The latest weeks I have received  a couple of questions from various Dynamics NAV consultants regarding strange SQL errors Dynamics NAV was throwing. A couple of examples: Table XXXXX coes not exist. Cannot find the user ’$ndo$……...

  • Using a SQL view in a NAV 2009 RDLC Report

    Posted over 1 year ago
    by Steven Renders Steven Renders
    What if a user asks: Could you create a report showing the inventory by Item, but in all of our companies? Sometimes I see the strangest  and most exotic constructions or C/AL coding to answer these kinds of questions, when a more simple solution...

  • Sql Server 2012 Launched !

    Posted over 1 year ago
    by Steven Renders Steven Renders
    I’m learning about #SQL2012 by watching video sessions at the #SQLServer 2012 Virtual Launch Event: http://www.sqlserverlaunch.com  ! This whitepaper provides an overview of the new features, benefits, and functionality in Microsoft SQL...

  • NAV 2009 Field Groups (DropDown) and the usage of Keys

    Posted over 1 year ago
    by Steven Renders Steven Renders
    Recently I had to change the list of available fields in a DropDown  box on a page. As you might already know, a DropDown  is a result of a field having a TableRelation . For example, on a Sales Order page there’s a field “ Sell to Customer...

  • Why RepeatWith isn’t that interesting as it could be…

    Posted over 1 year ago
    by Steven Renders Steven Renders
    Recently I prepared a blog post about a property RepeatWith available in RDLC reports that has the potential to revolutionize the way that we create document reports in Dynamics NAV 2009. It went like this: When developing reports in Dynamics NAV you...

  • Microsoft Dynamics Mayhem

    Posted over 1 year ago
    by Steven Renders Steven Renders
    Packt Publishing Celebrates its range of Microsoft Dynamics books/e-books all month! Packt Publishing is crowning February, Microsoft Dynamics Mayhem, and celebrating its range of Dynamics books/e-books with exciting discounts. As the leading publisher...

  • Experimenting with Table data regions

    Posted over 1 year ago
    by Steven Renders Steven Renders
    Did you ever had to outline information on a report? For example, the user asks you to move this field a little to the left or right, or can that textbox be a little bigger because sometimes it’s just not big enough? Or can you also add this information...

  • Adding comments in RDLC

    Posted over 1 year ago
    by Steven Renders Steven Renders
    Comments usually go into the Documentation() trigger in your report object, but sometimes you want to be able to also put comments in the RDLC layout. For example when you have put controls behind each other and depending on a certain expression you...

  • Decisions FALL 2011

    Posted over 1 year ago
    by Steven Renders Steven Renders
    On december 7 I delivered a presentation, at Decisions Fall 2011. It is still available online here: http://decisions.msdynamicsworld.com In this session we will start with an introduction on Role Tailored report design for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009...
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