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Customer Designer/Application Builder access

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Posted on by addision1 319

Six months ago we purchased NAV 2016. Can anyone describe to me what I need to ask my "Partner" to enable customer designer and Application Builder  functions for us. I am familiar with GP, and I have had a good amount of experience in T-sql. Unfortunately, our "Partner" is mainly a sales guy and I am way to tired of waiting for him to solve our problems. Six months later and we are still waiting to implement our system because he is far too slow to respond. We tell him there is an error and he takes a day to respond, another two days to fix that one error (which takes two minutes), and then does not check to determine if there are any additional errors. So he says "it's fixed" and the very next step we take provides another error.

We are done waiting on him and I have been fixing the problems myself. What all permissions do I need to make sure he provides so that I can be done with him. I know I need him to grant SQL-DB admin privileges (he is currently the only DB-Admin because he installed the database). I am admin on servers, and super within the NAV application just not SQL Server. Therefore, I cannot use the Administration Environment or the Developer Environment. Are there any special permissions I will need him to enable to make use of the Designer and the Application Builder?

Please don't respond that "you really need a Partner". I know I will for certain things. But, for many things I want to do I am confident I can figure out a solution. And I never make a change to a production system until finalized, I always work in a replicated company.

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    RE: Customer Designer/Application Builder access

    HI

    With Application Builder (AB)...

    You can do must part of code/changes to NAV.

    I will say that you can create your own applications for sure.

    The point is: when you need to change the core of Codeunits that represents changes in core os NAV. You should not change so much this core... which can give you a bad surprise if you touch code without years of experience. But for controlled and with good design modules you can easily use AB.

    Codeunit 12, 22, 80 and 90 are forbidden to compile with AB.

    These objects are created to control postings in critical tables like GLEntry, Customer Ledger Entry, Vendor Ledger Entry, Item Ledger Entry, and History tables. You can do that outside those Codeunits, but DON'T DO THAT !!! So, if you have Projects which represents Postings, you can do part of the job on your own side, but the posting changes or related issues don't do that.

    Define the Project.

    Advise: If your Project represents too much touching on Posting code objects, give that Project to your partner, unless you want surprises !!! ... after.

    If your Project is independent of Postings, do it, and take some support and advise from your partner; at least do the design and analysis with him; the good thing to save money is to work with the partner with analysis and prepare development, and you can do this and check in the end with your partner (like to give to him the quality control of your job) - I will say that 80% of work you can do it by yourself.

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    Alexander Ermakov Profile Picture
    Alexander Ermakov 28,094 on at
    RE: Customer Designer/Application Builder access

    You can of course do your own customizations and basically without a partner. In order to do full modifications of NAV, you need to have Solution Developer license; limited changes are available with Application Builder license.

    However, you can't get full developer's license unless you are Microsoft Partner with signed SPA agreement or you are a customer that has bought it at the following average (depending on your country) prices:

    - Application Builder for $7.200 (+16% BREP)

    - Solution Developer for $25.200 (+16% BREP)

    If you are interested to get such license, you can obtain it through your existing Partner.

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    Amol Salvi Profile Picture
    Amol Salvi 18,694 on at
    RE: Customer Designer/Application Builder access

    In Order to develop functionalities or module you need to have developer license as you can not do this with customer license.

    You need to purchase the developer license from partner and for that you have to contact partner and if existing partner is not reverting then kindly go the change of partner or contact microsoft.

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    Tharanga Chandrasekara Profile Picture
    Tharanga Chandrasekara 23,116 on at
    RE: Customer Designer/Application Builder access

    In order to do any modifications to Dynamics NAV objects you need to have a developer license. You will only get the permission to application builder (Development Environment) with a developer license.

    If you have a developer license then ask your partner to provide you "Super" user permissions in the Dynamics NAV side.  

    As per your issue, best thing is to change your Microsoft Partner and go with a partner who knows the value of the customer and time.

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