Category Archives: programming

Extension Development for Non-developers for Dynamics 365 Business Central

Overview A lot of people using Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central want to learn how to develop and publish an extension on their Business Central tenant. What drives this is that in the old Dynamics NAV, the users are able to easily add fields onto a page even if they’re not developers. Now that they’veRead more

Using Gmail Account with SMTP Setup with Dynamics Business Central / Dynamics NAV

Overview Not all customers uses Office 365 as their e-mail. The other popular option companies use is G Suite from Google. When you’re trying to setup the SMTP Mail using Gmail accounts in G Suite, you may encounter this error: The mail system returned the following error: “Failure sending mail. Unable to read data fromRead more

Dirty Trick to Keep Your Customers Hostage

Overview Through whatever reasons, the customers will want to work with one partner over another. It may be the lack of knowledge, lack of support, slow response, or whatever. The customer can freely choose who they want to work with in regards to Dynamics 365 Business Central (aka Dynamics NAV). Of course for the MicrosoftRead more

Dynamics NAV Extensions – A Potential Weapon of Mass Destruction

Overview With the release of Dynamics NAV 2017 and Dynamics 365 for Financials (which is technically NAV2017), the buzz word in the Dynamics NAV development community is the development function called Extensions. What are Extensions? Extensions is a way for NAV Developers to put modifications in your live environment without modifying your core NAV system.Read more

Why it makes sense to upgrade to (at least) Dynamics NAV 2015

Overview As you are all probably know, Microsoft has announced the next release of Dynamics NAV, called Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016. With this release, there are a lot of fantastic features that are out of the box. Here’s an image of the planned features releases for Dynamics NAV 2016: Historically, there are 2 major timeRead more

Optimizing your Aged Accounts Receivables Report

Overview Doing numerous upgrades from an older version of Navision to NAV 2015 and 2013, one common complaint is how slow the reports are running. This is especially true for larger reports like the Aged Accounts Receivables, Aged Accounts Payables , Inventory Valuation, etc. The old reports that took a long time, such as the InventoryRead more

Restarting Job Queue when it Hits an Error on Dynamics NAV 2013

Job Queue In Dynamics NAV 2013, you can setup job queue to automate processing of tasks. Popular tasks that are automated are things such as Adjust Cost – Item Entries, EDI processing, Reporting, etc. Setting up job queue in NAV2013 couldn’t be much easier can a step by step instruction can be found here. TheRead more

Thought Process on Receiving Defective Inventory in Dynamics NAV

Overview Receiving items from vendor can be a tricky thing. This question has come up quite a bit during implementation regarding defective inventory. I know a lot of companies has put a lot of modifications into receiving defective inventory, I’d like to propose an out of the box solution to receiving goods that have someRead more

Magento and Dynamics NAV (Navision)

E-Commerce Magento is an unstoppable force. There are NAV e-commerce add-ons out there, however, the websites that are created, at least from what we’ve seen, looks very outdated and “old”. In addition, it’s hard to add features and customize the website to your liking. The end result is probably not the best foot you wantRead more

Fedex API to be Discontinued for E-Ship

In case you haven’t heard, Fedex will discontinue the use of their old API used by Lanham’s E-Ship module for Fedex Integration. The date that the old API will be discontinued will be May of 2012. While that’s still a couple of months out, it may be worthwhile to plan an upgrade of E-Ship so youRead more