Dynamics NAV 2013 Beta Available!!

Beta version of the new Microsoft Dynamics NAV release is ready for download from Partner source.

There are few localized versions available and the W1. For some time now, teams are working on localizations for other countries, but for test purposes and sneak preview W1 will be just enough. As Vjeko announced on his blog, there are lots and lots of great new features in the new 2013 release! There is a lot to look out for!

Here is one screenshot from new NAV 2013, and even from this picture you can see that new NAV 2013 is something else!

 Also all of you want to get more acquainted with new NAV 2013, there are lots of documentations, system requirements, upgrade guides, what's new,.. available for download from Partner source web site.

NAV 2009 Platform Overview

Here are few links that You might find userful while working with NAV 2009 or troubleshooting:

Released Platform Hotfixes for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009

SQL 2010 Login Error

Today I tried to test Dynamics NAV 2009 client on new SQL 2010 R0.

Installation went without problems, user creation also went without problem, and then I started classic client with task to create data base. Now problems started.

On my server I had two types of data base users: domain user (Windows authentication) and data base user.

Thing that bothered me was that I could log in with windows account but couldn't log in with database account.

After I verified all of SQL Server parameters, user permissions, and data base properties I found what was "wrong": SQL 2010 has new security feature that doesn't allow logging of accounts that have blank passwords.

Even thou your account has blank password with ALTER LOGIN function and even thou query returns Command(s) completed successfully You still won't be able to log in.

After setting passwords to my database account I was able to log in to SQL server and create/restore databases.

Zoom Functionality In RTC 2009 R2

Zoom is very handy function that all of NAV users, in very short time, learned what it and use it daily. In classic client Zoom function is started by pressing F8 button or using Tools menu function Zoom.

RTC client also has built in Zoom functionality but it's slightly different than old Zoom function.

Starting Zoom

You can start Zoom function by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F1 key kombination on current page or use standard windows function „Help > About“

 

 You can start Zoom function by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F1 key kombination on current page or use standard windows function „Help > About“

Zoom Data

After starting function RTC Zoom page will appear with more dana than old Zoom:

• Page Information – information about page type, page mode, source table and current record.
• Table fields – old Zoom data
• Source Expressions
• FlowFilter Fields – All flowFilter Fields on current form with applied filters

Date error when starting RTC report

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 is in many ways depending on Microsoft Windows OS.
One of dependencies we're going to talk about is date formating.

NAV 2009 RTC has issue with interpretation of date formating and displaying reports if date format isn't set up according to RTC liking. In my experience when trying to run RTC reports with standard date formating You'll get following error::

Just for information (You probably won't get same error as I did) this error is displayed in Croatian language (from NAV 2009 R2 Croatian localization) and it means: Date isn't valid.

Solution for this problem is to set up Microsoft Windows Regional Settings and change date formating. Path to date formating set up is:


Control Panel > Regional Settings > Formats > Additional settings... > Date > Date formats.

Here you need to change two fields:

• Short date,
• Long date.

Yuo need to change current values to:

• Short date: d.M.yyyy
• Long date: dd.MMMM.YYYY

Notice that only thing that is different is full stop mark (".") at the end of date formatting.
After change (close RTC if you opened it) start NAV 2009 RTC.

NAV 2009 feature: Substitute posting groups

New feature: Substitute posting groups.

Every functionality in Sales and Marketing, that has any relevance to Posting groups, has new functionality which backs-up original posting group setting.
This functionality enables users to set up substitute posting groups thus disabling users to change posting groups as they please. Substitute Posting Groups option needs a little more effort to set-up, you'll extend NAV's security features to new level.
Standard NAV 2009 feature copies Posting groups directly from customer or vendor cards directly in form field which is dedicated to Posting group (ex. Customer Posting Group). NAV 2009 requires user to set-up rights for changing posting groups, or to enable substitute posting groups.
Setup Path: Financial Management > Receivables > Setup > Sales and Receivables Setup.

This setup form has Boolean field Allow Alter Posting Groups which enables changing of posting groups.

After enabing change of Posting Groups fill in substitute posting groups. This is done in Posting Groups SubForm

Customers	Vendors
Form ID: 110	Form ID: 111
SubForm ID: 26504	SubForm ID: 26505

Path for customers: Financial management > Setup > Posting Groups > Customer > Posting Group > Substitutions.

Path for vendors: Financial management > Setup > Posting Groups > Vendor > Posting Group > Substitutions

Here are some pointer for consultants and implementators:

1. When entering posting groups through NAV forms you'll get error when trying to enter same substitute posting group as upper (normal) posting group.
2. When trying to choose posting group from Posting group flow field, and you choose same posting group you'll get error: