Tag: Development

Microsoft Dynamics NAV Coding Guidelines

It was announced a while back (if I’m not mistaken at NAVTechDays), but today, they are officially published on the NAV Design Patterns Wiki, as anounced by Mark Brummel. Coding guidelines are important .. and they have been there for a long time at Microsoft. One might wonder why it took about 25 years to …

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Running PowerShell from NAV

Lots to blog about .. . After all my sessions in the different conventions, I promised to blog the solutions, the scripts that I used during the sessions. Well, let’s start with the most interesting one .. at least in my opinion ;-). Not a script Indeed .. I’m blogging about PowerShell .. and it …

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Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2014/12/17/running-powershell-from-nav/

PowerShell Script to Merge NAV Versionlist

I’ve been trying to get this out for a while now.. finally I was able to :-). If you have been to one of the Directions (US or EMEA) or the last session of the Dutch Dynamics Community, you might have visited one of the session about the great new addition in NAV2015 (in fact, …

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Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2014/10/28/powershell-script-to-merge-nav-versionlist/

Powershell: The Merge-commandlets for NAV 2013

I have been looking forward to blog about this, since I have been testing and working with these commandlets for quite some time now. With the release of Cumulative Update 9, these commandlets are being released .. so FINALLY I’m able to blog about it. But I’m not gonna .. at least, I’m not going …

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NAV 2013 R2: Export objects with PowerShell

A while ago, I create a blog about a way to import objects in NAV with PowerShell. Well, it’s time to do the opposite, and export objects. This is the function I came up with (pardon the formatting – copy/pasting really made it difficult for me…): function Export-NAVApplicationObjectFile { [CmdletBinding()] param ( [String]$WorkingFolder, [String]$ExportFile, [String]$Database, …

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Renumbering tables in NAV 2013 R2 – be careful!

Object ID’s .. it’s still a hassle .. but something we’re all used to work with. But sometimes, ID’s of objects need to be renumbered. You have to move a piece of functionality to a new number band, or you want to incorporate a piece of an app into another database, which would result in …

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NAV 2013 R2: Import objects with PowerShell

You know PowerShell is hot, right? And the fact that Dynamics NAV is using Powershell more and more, is good. Very good. I like it .. you must have figured that in previous post ;-). We also are familiar with the finsql.exe .. and options we have with it. And if not, The Microsoft Team …

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Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2014/04/09/nav-2013-r2-import-objects-with-powershell/

Powershell script to search for “How Do I”-video’s for NAV 2013 (R2)

As you might know, lately, I have been working on the “How Do I”-video-series about various topics regarding Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013. these video’s are posted on MSDN, PartnerSource and Youtube. (And hereby, you got the links to easily find them – bookmark them, please :-)). Now, as you migth have noticed, me personally, I …

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How to Create a NAV 2013 R2 Multi-Tenancy Demo Environment

I have had a few people asking for this .. So I’m just going to share you my script that I always use to convert a Single Tenancy Demo Environment to a Multi Tenancy Demo Environment, with some (Empty) companies per Tenant and such.. . And I’m going to make it easy on me .. …

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NAV 2013 R2: Migrating from Multi-Tenancy back to Single-Tenancy

A lot has been written about how to migrate from Single Tenancy to Multi-Tenancy. Video’s have been created, blogs have been written, Sessions have been given.. . The question that I always get – is “what about the other way around?”. So, how do I migrate back to a Single Tenant Environment? I’ve spend some …

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