August 2017 – Page 2

AL with VSCode: ExportToNewSyntax

When you start doing AL development in VSCode, you inevitably will want to convert from the very old and dusty C/AL language, to the brand new shining innovative AL language :-) Bron : Waldo's Blog Lees meer...

18 August 2017

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

How do I : Create a report and layout in VSCode?

A question I get asked frequently is: Ho Do I Create a Report in VSCode, and to me more specific, How Do I Create the Layout, being an RDLC or Word layout? The answer is that you need to create the report object as an .al…

17 August 2017

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

How to use Let’s Encrypt certificates with Dynamics NAV

I have been using Let’s Encrypt certificates for my Linux servers for a long time. They work great, it’s quite easy, and they’re free. The only challenge is that the installation might be complicated, and you need to refresh the certificate on a regular basis. Bron…

16 August 2017

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

How to use G/L Account Categories in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2017

Previously each G/L account was identified as either a Balance Sheet or Income Statement account, then based on your chart of accounts grouping would give you the reporting layout. In NAV 2017 using account categories, you can assign to the G/L account level, regardless of the…

15 August 2017

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

Argument Completion for NAV PowerShell cmdlets

One of my pet peeves about the PowerShell cmdlets that ship with NAV is the lack of built-in argument completion: the module in question knows exactly which server instances exist (after all, it has a cmdlet that lets you retrieve a list of these instances), but…

15 August 2017

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

Remove Empty XML Nodes from XMLPort

XMLPort is a nice tool that allows you quickly import and export xml files. The tool has some shortcomings, but there is always a work around it. For an implementation recently I had to export an xml and it could not have empty xml nodes. For…

14 August 2017

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

NAV Application Testing – the Story Continues

Following up on our recent blog posts/comments about testing, Luc van Vugt, Mark Brummel and I decided to get together and talk some more about testing best practices in NAV. Below are my notes and our conclusions. Bron : Zen & The art of C/SIDE development…

14 August 2017