Tag: Development

The Hooks Pattern

You remember NAVTechDays, right? The place where a lot begins, and a lot happens. 🙂 Well, I explained in my wrap-up of NAVTechDays2013 that there was (some) attention on something called “The Hooks Pattern”. Because of that – I dedicated a topic, specifically on the Hooks-pattern (which was also handled during our Pre-Conference Day workshop …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2014/01/06/the-hooks-pattern/

NAV 2013 R2: Powershell function to check if ServerInstance is Multitenant or not

Hi, to end the year with – here is a small tip. I’m working on improving the Backup/Restore procedure from this blogpost .. . While doing that, I was looking for a way to see whether my current instance was actually a Multitenant-server or not. In a way, I had to be able to read …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2013/12/31/nav-2013-r2-powershell-function-to-check-if-serverinstance-is-multitenant-or-not/

NAV TechDays 2013

Directions EMEA is over (and there is much to talk about – since NAV2013R2 is bloggable now;-)). Directions US is coming, but I’m not taking part of that either – because of my son being born and such ;-). But what I AM going to take part of, is this year’s NAV TechDays on the …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2013/09/05/writing-nav-techdays-2013/

Design is Philosophy

You might remember my post on “Code is Poetry”. Well, once again I’m in the plane after another most amazing days. I’m flying home from a 2-days meeting, purely dedicated on Design Patterns for Microsoft Dynamics NAV. If you are a developer, and don’t know what I’m talking about .. then let me take the …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2013/08/28/design-is-philosophy-2/

NAV2013: HTML on reports

I noticed it’s not known too well .. so I decided to put this in a small blogpost. Basically, you can use HTML on Dynamics NAV 2013 reports .. and I’m going to share how you can do that in just a few basic steps. Step 1: Create HTML Text It doesn’t really matter how/where/… …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2013/07/01/nav2013-html-on-reports/

“Code is Poetry”

At the time when writing this post .. I’m in the plane after a most amazing day. You might not know, but since a few years, we (that are Mark Brummel, Gary Winter, Vjeko and me) have been working on-and-off on an initiative called “Partner Ready Software“. I have been blogging about that in the …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2013/06/14/code-is-poetry/

NAV 2013: RTC crashes because of language NAS user

    I use the Jobqueue as much as I can for automating jobs. It’s decent, stable, good, flexible. It makes sense, doesn’t it? But after installing a language pack (NLB and FRB – quite common in Belgium :-/) .. it didn’t seem the most valid opinion I had.. : my RTC was crashing 10 …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2013/05/15/nav-2013-rtc-crashes-because-of-language-nas-user/

The power of Variants

This blogpost of Arend Jan Kauffman reminded me of a topic that I wanted to write a very long time now. Namely working with Variants. Sometimes I get the remark: “what the hell are they useful for? “. And to be honest: Variants could be bloody useful in some cases. Cases to make stuff even …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2013/04/25/the-power-of-variants/

How Do I Video’s on Microsoft Dynamics NAV

Some of you might already have read it on some blogposts or found it through some other channels .. but I didn’t mention it yet. So let’s do so :-). Microsoft has initiated a really great initiative (please notice the huge alliteration .. ). They have begun creating “How To” Video’s for a number of …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2013/04/11/how-do-i-videos-on-microsoft-dynamics-nav/

Pre-Configuration in NAV2013 (Profile Metadata)

Configuration, Personalisation, .. . Terms that were introduced in NAV2009, and that we all know by now, don’t we? It gives us a great flexibility of the behaviour of the clients: Flexibility to the user: they can add, remove, change, .. The pages according to their role .. . Flexibility to the administrator: they can …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://www.waldo.be/2013/04/01/pre-configuration-in-nav2013-profile-metadata/