At our shop, we were doing a real big upgrade – Classic NAV (no SQL) all the way up to 2018. We hit a weird error message about the Locked and Locked By fields missing when trying to modify any records: Since our upgrade lead hadn’t seen “Invalid column name ‘Locked’” before, and neither had […]
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Multiple NAV Builds of Web Clients
Ah, the NAV Web Client of forever unhelpful error messages: It’s not too hard to get things set up with it correctly once you’ve done it a few times. I ran into an interesting challenge this week, however. I needed to setup different build versions of the WebClient on the same box. A customer […]
NAV Tip: Access Domain NAV from Non-Domain Computer
It’s pretty easy to run Microsoft Dynamics NAV (RTC or otherwise) as another user while you’re inside the domain (shift right click on most Windows machines to find a “Run as another user” option, if you did not know). We had a situation come up where, for training purposes, it was necessary to use a […]
Dynamics NAV – Credential Type NavUserPassword Gotcha
This is not so much a training document as outlining how I had to troubleshoot a weird error. I think the process taught me a variety of things, so I wanted to share the process of finding the answer. I was trying to setup a new Dynamics NAV 2016 service tier in a test environment […]
The Power of Notes and Notifications
In Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009, one of the most popular new features is the Notes FactBox. Let’s take a look at the basics of how it works. In our example today, we have a Customer who is pretty behind on their payments and we’re going to block them, note why, and ask our collections person […]
Viewing Report Data
One of the great features about RTC Reporting is that, if you want to slice and dice the numbers, you can easily Save As Excel. But, you can go even further beyond that if you want! We’ve talked before about the data structure behind reports from a technical point of view, but let’s look at […]