September 2014 – Page 3

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 Sales Order and Assembly Order Quantity Change

We came across a situation using Dynamics NAV 2013 Assembly Orders that, at first, we didn’t know how to handle. The scenario: You have set up a Dynamics NAV Item with the Replenishment System set to “Assembly Order” and the Assembly Policy set to “Assemble to…

8 September 2014

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

Tip: Interacting with the actual .NET Control Add-in controls

So, it worked. I found just enough spare time to try out the crazy idea I mentioned in the last post. It’s about control add-ins and events. In the last post I gave a tip about exposing the actual control as a property decorated with ApplicationVisible,…

8 September 2014

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 R2: How to Create Recurring General Journals

The Recurring General Journal window is used to post transactions that recur with few or no changes to G/L, bank, customer, vendor and fixed assets accounts. In a recurring general journal, you enter the relevant information for the transaction, such as the posting date, amount and…

8 September 2014

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

Dynamics NAV Posts Additional Output When the Production Order is Changed to Finished

We frequently get the question, “Why does Dynamics NAV post additional output when I change a Production Order status to Finished?" The scenario: You create a Released Production Order for Quantity = 10. During the course of production, you record the output of 5. When you…

5 September 2014

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

A .NET Interoperability Lesson: Mapping indexed properties to C/AL

Indexed properties are commonly used in C# because they allow a lot of syntactical flexibility, and make the code more readable, and easier to follow. Indexed properties are very similar to C/AL array indexing, except for two important differences: •In C/AL, indexer is always 1-based. In…

5 September 2014

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

Can you apply an Item Charge Invoice to a Subcontracting Purchase Receipt in Microsoft Dynamics NAV?

We received a call from a client who is running Dynamics NAV 2013 and was getting an error when trying to post an Item Charge Invoice to a Subcontracting Purchase Receipt. The short answer is that you cannot post an Item Charge Invoice to a Subcontracting…

5 September 2014

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

Handling the Production BOM When ECN Effectivity is Used to Exhaustion in Microsoft Dynamics NAV

There are times when an ECN effectivity says to use up existing parts before using the new parts (Use to Exhaustion). In Dynamics NAV, we have the option to phase in using “starting dates” and “ending dates” in Production BOM’s, but that is based on an…

4 September 2014