In this video, I show and talk about symbol creep. The phenomenon that happens when the .alpackages folder gets newer symbols files that what the app is targeted for.
Tag Archives: Symbol
Delivering Application Symbols to enable hybrid deployments
If you are like us at Axians Infoma and can’t make the transition of your on-premises solution from C/AL to AL with a single snap of your fingers, you may want to use hybrid deployments as a first step. This means shipping your standard C/AL solution and publishing dependent extensions on top of that to enable a step-by-step migration to AL.
Import Symbols in New or Upgrade Databases with Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2018
What does upgrading databases have in common with creating new databases in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2018? They do not contain symbols. More precisely, when upgrading a database from an older version to Dynamics NAV 2018, or creating a new database for the same version, it does not have any symbols automatically created or imported.
AL with VSCode: Symbol Rename
When you’re a NAV developer, you’re not really spoiled with developer tools. So these are exciting times .. and I think I can speak for many developers when claiming I’m very much looking forward to the upcoming developer tools.
Basically because it brings us VSCode .. and VSCode brings us a grown up development experience.
NAV2016CU2 | Symbol Menu & More
NAV 2016 Cumulative Update 2 is released. I have to admit, normally I don’t pay that much attention to updates, but the last ones are on my radar because of some promisses.
Display Symbols and Different Fonts in Dynamics NAV 2013 R2
Some weeks ago I came across a requirement to be able to display GD&T symbols in the windows client of NAV 2013 R2 (as part of a quality control system). It sounded easy since the symbols was generated by a string of regular characters displayed with a special font. In the classic client it would just have been to change the font of the text box and it would probably have worked, but it is not that easy in the 2013 version of Dynamics NAV (and I believe the same applies to the NAV 2009 RTC client).
NAV 2013 | Keys in Symbol Menu
One of the things that I noticed while doing some development in NAV2013 is that keys are now part of the Symbol Menu (F5) in the C/AL editor! This allows you to select all active keys for example when using SETCURRENTKEY. Very handy, since most of the time you had to go to for example the design of the table to look for keys, copy and paste, and then implement the quotes. How cool is this! NAV2013 rocks!