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Copy Company

Posted on by Microsoft Employee

In our test database we have two companies:

Pilot3 then copied this company and now have testdb070716.

Since renaming Pilot 3 has been an issue, is testdb070716 exactly the same as Pilot 3?

I am thinking just delete Pilot 3 using testdb070716, management does not like the Pilot 3 name.

They feel it is confusing with our live database.

Please advise, thank you.

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    TharangaC Profile Picture
    TharangaC 23,116 on at
    RE: Copy Company

    Please do follow below steps,

    1. Restart NAV service

    2. Backup the database

    3. Compile all the objects in Dynamics NAV

    4. Rename the company.

    * Try to make less changes to company name.

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    Amol Salvi Profile Picture
    Amol Salvi 18,694 on at
    RE: Copy Company

    Hi,

    Which version of Navision (Build )you are using  ?

    May be you can try to compile all the object and try to rename the company.

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    Community Member Microsoft Employee on at
    RE: Copy Company

    Error Rec'd

    The server TestDB070716 was unable to process the request.  Close the application and start it again.

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    Ashwini Tripathi Profile Picture
    Ashwini Tripathi 4,624 on at
    RE: Copy Company

    Renaming Company Should not be an Issue.

    Makesure you are only connected to database, disconnect all other users or kill all other Active Sessions.

    On the File menu, choose Company, and then choose Rename.  

    Give your desired Name and click OK.

    It will take bit time to perform this action have patience.

    You are done.

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    Suresh Kulla Profile Picture
    Suresh Kulla 43,745 on at
    RE: Copy Company

    Just to be safe take the backup of the database, since you already copied the company as different name yes you can delete it, just make sure there was no activity after you copied.

    What was the isssue you encountered while renaming the company ?

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    Alexander Ermakov Profile Picture
    Alexander Ermakov 28,094 on at
    RE: Copy Company

    If you do not like the name of the company, you can always rename it:

    msdn.microsoft.com/.../hh168729(v=nav.70).aspx

    If you had made a backup and restored it, it would be similar to your initial company.

    If you feel that users might confuse the live company with test company, restrict user access to test environment.

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