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Setting up precisions

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In Dynamics Nav amount and currency precisions are set on a central point, in the General Ledger Setup. These settings apply for the LCY (Local currency). Foreign currencies are configured in page Currency Card (on base of table Currency).

Fields “Amount Decimal Places”, “Amount Rounding Precision”, “Unit-Amount Decimal Places” and “Unit-Amount Rounding Precision” are maybe missing in this page. In the standard page they are not shown. In that case adde them to the page in the development environment.

In the currency card you can configure foreign currencies. Here you find the same fields to set the precision as in the general ledger setup. This is also the place to set/update the exchange rates.

For details about the fields in G/L Setup follow
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh168649(v=nav.70).aspx
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh169567(v=nav.70).aspx

For details about the fields in the Currency Card follow
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh169173(v=nav.70).aspx
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh170490(v=nav.70).aspx
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh168784(v=nav.70).aspx

Additional it’s possible to activate automatic invoice rounding:
To make sure that sales and purchase invoices are rounded automatically, you must activate the invoice rounding function. In the Search box, enter Sales & Receivables Setup or Purchases & Payables Setup, open the page, on the General FastTab, select the Invoice Rounding check box. You can activate invoice rounding separately for sales and purchase invoices.

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How to: Manage a mobile app project

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When a custom mobile client for Dynamics Nav is needed, there are a couple of ways to implement that. A couple of questions need to be answered, major decisions have to be made, especially, if you do want use the app not only for yourself, but you want to provide the app in online stores, provide it your customers.

Using ready-to-use solutions:

  • Anveo: Full mobile client for Dynamics Nav especially for Sales People. Provides offline working.
  • Mobile Nav: Ready-to-use mobile client, customizable, extensible, can be used online and offline (!), Secure comunication, barcode scanning, direct printing from device, multilingual; available for Android, IOS, Windows; usable for Nav 2009 R2 – Nav 2016
  • Sana Mobile: similar features as ‘Mobile Nav’, but only available for IOS (Apple devices: IPhone and in the near future also available for IPads). The app is optimized for sales agents.
  • Dynamics Mobile: similar features as Mobile Nav

Starting from scratch:

This is maybe the more expensive and more time consuming variant, but you can develope a full custom solution. For the mobile app you need an Sdk according the OS (Android, IOS, Windows). At the end it could be that you have to develope the mobile client 3 times. You have also to decide, if you want the get an online only app or if it also usable offline. Alternatively you could develope a web solution, which runs in the device browser.

The mobile app is then connected to the Dynamics Nav system with Nav web services. Nav web services are nav objects like codeunits and pages, which are so called published as .net web services, they are based on the SOAP protocol. For details goto here. If you go that way and want to use nav web services, i recommend NOT to use standard nav objects, especially not to use pages, because that is unsecure and you publish much more functionality than you want or need. Nav web services based on SAP are available since Nav 2009. Since Nav 2013 ODATA is provided, a new web service technology, quite faster, but with that Nav version only for read operations. Since Nav 2015 ODATA is usable for read AND write operations.

Prepare you project:

Start with a market study:

  • What are the existing solutions?
  • Are they suitable for you, are they customizable?
  • Are they usable online and offline, if needed ?
  • Which platforms are supported (Android, IOS, Windows), which do you need/want ?

Features:

  • What features, functions do you really want/need in your app? The few the better !!
  • Only provide the really needed functions (cheaper, faster): i suggest start for the first version with item list, customer list, vendor list, sales orders, purchase orders; additional the possibility to view, maybe edit the entries.

Users:

  • Which users do you target: “normal” end users, sales persons, CEOs? Different types of users may need different functions, different interfaces.
  • Ask some of your customers what they would expect from your mobile app

Interface:

  • The Gui, the interface of the app is the main thing. Always start with the gui; it should be cool, easy to use, should make the WOW effect. You’ll need a graphic designer for the gui.
  • Create the custom codeunits with the needed functions AFTER the gui, not vice versa, because that won’t work, will end in a crashed project.

so have fun with your mobile app project.

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Localisations for NAV

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Localizations for specific countries are quite often an issue. Microsoft provides only a couple of localizations: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Iceland, India*, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Russia*, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United States.

* The supported countries can differ between the Nav versions.

The complete lists you’ll find here.

For countries, where there is no localization, best start with Dynamics Nav W1 version. This is the base version of Dynamics Nav, contains no localization at all. So it can be used in every country, but needs a couple of customizations according to national laws, e.g. changes in the accounting/finance area, new and customized reports a.s.o. Additional you’ll may need a new language layer. For that look for a Nav partner located in your region, start with Pinpoint.

Following a list of Nav Partners, who have developed additional localizations. This list will be periodically updated:

Europe:

  • Slovenian Nav Partner Business Solutions d.o.o., also known for their great Permission & Role Wizard for Nav 2009, has developed Nav 2013 localizations for following countries: Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Macedonia, Kosovo. Included are additional functionalities and tools. They provide the localizations in 3 packages: basic, extended, integrated. Maybe they also have developed localizations for the newer Nav versions. If you need it, contact them directly.
  • Adacta group: localization for Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Macedonia and Montenegro.
  • Effekt: located in Athens, developed greek localization at least for Nav 2013.
  • IT.integro: localization for Poland. thx to daniele rebussi for the hint.
  • Awara IT Solutions: localization for Russia, especially for the accounting/finance area.
  • Multisoft: localization for Hungary.
  • Alna: localization for Lithuania. Alna is active in Lithuania, Latvia and Poland.
  • EDPA: localization for Latvia
  • CDL.System: Czech localization
  • Autocont CZ a.s.: localizations for Czech Republic and Slovakia
  • Wbi: localization for Slovakia
  • Intelligent Systems: localization for Bulgaria
  • Team-Vision: localization for Bulgaria
  • Infotekas: localization for Turkey. Nav versions 2013 R2, 2015, 2016 in development.
  • Softstore / Link Consulting: localization for Portugal

Americas:

  • Cadia Consulting, located in Sao Paolo, developed a brazilian localization.
  • Master Consulting Group: localizations for LATAM, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Bolivia. They are also developing localizations for Chile and Panama.
  • Voxa: localization for Argentina
  • Grvppe: localization for Brazil

Asia:

  • PT SME Solution, located in Jakarta, Indonesia, developed an indonesian localization at least for Nav 2013.
  • PBC and Tectura Korea: localization for China.
  • PBC also developed a localization for Japan.
  • Ibizcs: localizations for Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and China. Provided Nav versions: Nav 2009, 2013, 2015.
  • Naviworld: localizations for Vietnam and Thailand.
  • Arvato Systems developed a localisation for China

For Nav Partners, who want to develop a localization, they can start with the Microsoft Dynamics Localization Portal – Microsoft Dynamics NAV. They will be assisted by Microsoft (documentations, country specific legal stuff, …).

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Where-Used-Tools for Dynamics Nav

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Dynamics Nav does not ship with a Where-Used-Tool, although it is often needed. A Where-Used Tool is a tool, with which you can check, which nav objects use/reference a certain nav object or a certain table field.

Idyn has developed a widly used Toolset, the Object Manager Advanced (OMA). It is very helpful, contains that kind of tool, also a version/source control, rename tool, a.s.o. but it has it’s prize. 😦

Other Where-Used/Search tools:

  • “Statical Prism“: free community version available, cheapest full version you can get for $37.
  • “GDT Where Used“: This small free tool lists all Nav objects and has a “Where used” function. It supports Nav 5, Nav 2009, Nav 2013. . Looks very nice, it’s worth to test it.

02/2016, News about “GDT Where used”: There is a new version, which now supports also Nav 2015 and Nav 2016.

Nav 2015 Installation guides & additional materials

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I looked for some Nav 2015 tutorials, installation guides, …. Here is the result of the search.

Nav 2015 installation guide:
How to Install Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015

Additional materials:

Updates:

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Time driven actions with .Net Class Timer

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Till Nav 2009 if time driven actions were needed, it was done using automation NTimer.dll (NavTimer). With Nav 2013 and newer Versions Microsoft recommends to avoid usage of automations. As a result many of the common used automations, shipped with Nav 2009 and earlier, disappeared. There are few descriptions, how to solve common issues formerly solved with automations. So, let’s have a look at the Timer issue.

The .Net Framework contains class System.Timers.Timer in assembly System.dll. To use and test it, create a new codeunit and add some global variables:

Variable Timer is of subtype System.Timers.Timer. We set properties RunOnClient to false, but WithEvents to true. Only one of these properties can be set to true at one time, both together is not allowed. But ok, we need the Triggers (in .Net called Events). With RunOnClient=false, the code runs on the server … and that’s ok. Setting WithEvents to true we get automatically all embedded .Net Events written in the C/AL code, in that case Timer::Elapsed(sender : Variant;e : DotNet “System.Timers.ElapsedEventArgs”) and Timer::Disposed(sender : Variant;e : DotNet “System.EventArgs”). We only use the first one.

In the sample we want create a file and write lines into the file, step by step, every 3 seconds one line. We use a Counter for a break condition.

OnRun()Counter := 0; // Counter is an Integer variableMESSAGE('Timer started');IF EXISTS('c:\temp\sample.txt') THEN  ERASE('c:\temp\sample.txt'); // delete the file, if it already existsTextFile.CREATE('c:\temp\sample.txt'); // TextFile is a FILE variableTextFile.TEXTMODE := TRUE;Timer := Timer.Timer(); // create a Timer instanceTimer.Interval := 3000; // i.e. 3 secs (unit is ms)Timer.Enabled := TRUE;Timer.Start(); // starts the timerTimer::Elapsed(sender : Variant;e : DotNet "System.Timers.ElapsedEventArgs")Counter := Counter + 1;TextFile.WRITE('line ' + FORMAT(Counter) + ', ' + FORMAT(TODAY) + ' ' + FORMAT(TIME));// stop timer after trigger Elapsed was called 10 timesIF Counter > 10 THEN BEGIN  Timer.Enabled := FALSE;  Timer.Stop(); // stops the timer  Timer.Close();  CLEAR(Timer);  TextFile.CLOSE;END;

Result:

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