You may wondering there is a in built function called ReportItems. Simple and  straightforward. The ReportItems  includes text boxes that are in the current scope of a page header, footer, or body. This will identify at run time by the report processor/report render.

You may find good example in Microsoft (MSDN) website. So same example I will show here.

• This expression, placed in a text box, displays the value of a ReportItem text box named Textbox1:

  =ReportItems!Textbox1.Value

• This expression, placed in a ReportItem text box Color property, displays the text in black when the value is > 0; otherwise, the value is displayed in red:=IIF(Me.Value > 0,"Black","Red")

• This expression, placed in a text box in the page header or page footer, displays the first value per page of the rendered report, for a text box named LastName:

  =First(ReportItems("LastName").Value)

  Simply use ReportItems then use the textbox value.

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Compare to Navision 2015, Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 has good features both in Functionality wise and development wise. Navision ERP is business management solution which can be used in middle level organizations to automate their business process. Features wise it is more rich and adaptable. NAV 2016 let companies to manage their business smoothly. Navision 2016 includes Finance, Manufacturing, Sales, Shipping, Project Management, Services and more modules.  Regional wise companies can add related functionalities easily. Let’s talk whats new application changes Microsoft dynamics nav 2016.

Role Tailored interface which is feature of Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016. It allows easy access to the Business roles. Navision 2016, as a business solution from Microsoft Corporation that is easy to implement, easy to use. Navision 2016 works

With CRM like natively also with Azure SQL. Some good feature has been introduced in to Dynamics NAV 2016 which is Workflow. Power BI, Document Management will be huge turning point of Navision 2016.

Introduced CRM connectivity enable an optimal experience for customers why because it is direct Microsoft Dynamics CRM connection.

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 can be worked natively with Azure SQL.  Navision 2016 can be configured to use Azure SQL as a relational database. It will reduce the cost and reduce the maintenance.

Dynamics NAV 2016 has introduced Universal app for your all devices. Amazing feature which you can use Universal app on your mobile to manipulate your business process anytime, anywhere. Navision 2016 Universal App delivers a familiar role tailored experience.

Navision 2016 has significant enhancements of Web Client. As per the Microsoft, Microsoft Dynamics NAV includes over 60 enhancements to the web client.

Some popular features such as cross-column search, collapsible fast tabs, freeze pane, Language selection, Change Company and much more.

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 has Document Management feature which will enable you to manage your incoming documents. You can capture, store and search

Incoming documents. You can use document capture or an optical character recognition service which available at Lexmark.  Most impressive new feature is work flow. Approvals, Notification services, process automation to execute a process routine and automatically send email will be available with Dynamics NAV 2016 as work-flows.

Another worth feature available which is E-Everything.  As an instance, you can get currency exchange rates automatically from an exchange rate service.

Hope you would gained some information about Application Changes for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016.

Please refer MSDN for more information

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So may be you love if we have Try Catch statement to capture the errors. But we can have simple way to handle some error,

Mostly we are facing run time errors. For instance , you will have a calculation like  AvgAmt := LineAmt / TotalValue  ,What happens if TotalValue is zero ? Yes of course you will get an error which may you mostly familiar Divided by zero error.

So how we are going to handle these type of run time errors, Let me tell you some interesting thing, You can use IF condition to handle this type of errors, For instance, simply you can check if the Totavalue is 0 or not. If it is not 0 you can allow the calculation else you can  assign default value to the TotalValue. Here is the example,

IF TotalValue <> 0 THEN
    AvgAmt := LineAmt / TotalValue
ELSE
AvgAmt := 0;

Sometimes you may have used GET Function to retrieve values. You already know how to use  GET Function, But sometime you will get error, for instance, Customer “” does not exist  something smiler to this, So what we have to do is we need to keep the get function with IF condition.

IF NOT (Customer.GET(“C001”)) THEN CLEAR(Customer);

So now you know, using simple IF condition we can handle run time errors  in some area in Dynamics NAV.

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In the Dynamics Nav Job Queue Entries window, you need to add information about the job queue entry that you want to schedule, such as a report or codeunit for the object type, the name and object ID of the object that you want to run, recurrence, priority, and status. You can also add parameters to specify the behavior of the job queue entry.

Let’s setup NAS Server first , you can find NAS Server setup inside the dynamics nav setup cd. After installation completed, application server comes as windows service. But when you try to start the service, you cannot start it,it gives an error. So simple solution can be provided to resolve it.

Right click on Application Server for Microsoft Dynamics NAV Classic NAVISION-SQL and select properties then Select windows user and set password.

Then go to  regedit Select HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE then  SYSTEM then Services then NAVISION-CLASSIC (this depends if you install default settings only)

Set the company,Databse,Servername,servertype (0 to 64000),Setupparamerter(set as JOBQUEUE) .After all completed you ready to start the service.

Now we will create simple report to insert date and time to the table to test Dynamics Nav Job Queue. First of all create new table and it should include Enrty No, Date, Time as fields and save it as Job Queue Test

Now we will create the report as follows

you have almost completed ,now go to Job Queue Entries and fill the suitable details . I will share my details.

Set the job queue to Reset Status

 Go to job queue setup and tick the Job activate. In 2009 you have to run codeunit 448 manually. It is only for 1^st time. 

Hope you have gained knowledge and please comment for questions.

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Today I am going to show you , How to take month in text from a date in Dynamics NAV. It is so simple you have two ways to do it.

First way is use the FORMAT function and the second way is use the Date table which is virtual table in Dynamics NAV.

Let’s move for the first way, This is very simple what you need to do, use FORMAT and send the proper parameters.

FORMAT(“Posting Date”,0,'<Month Text>’);

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Dynamics navision has more demand in Asian countries as well as Europe . Industry, they have separated two roles which are dynamics navision developer / technical consultant and dynamics navision functional consultant. So we are going to look what are the responsibilities and rolls related to the nav developer / technical consultant.

Dynamics navision developer who is responsible mainly for the doing customizations, report designing, giving technical solutions and more. It is more recommended to work with dynamics nav partner. Why it is more important then you can work on various kind of domains. Also if you are working with dynamics nav partner you will know about navision supports.

Dynamics nav is using C/AL programming language. Programming concepts still same like other programming languages. This language is object based language.

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First of all please have a look of bellow diagram. Which is showing structure of the report.

When you run the report, It will execute On Init Report trigger first. So what ever things that you want to execute when the report begin ,you can use this trigger.

Second is Page triggers, what are these page triggers, suppose if you have request page, then it has several triggers,so those triggers will execute secondly.

Then will come to next trigger which is On Pre Report Trigger , What ever suitable code you can place here.

Next is important phase, On Pre Data Item trigger, which is belong to data item that you keep in the report. After this it will execute On After Get Record trigger. This trigger just like a loop. If you keep Item table as data item,so as per the given filters this on after trigger will execute until finish the items.  then it will go to On  Post Dataitem trigger.

After all, On PostReport trigger will execute. So if you have any code that you want to execute at the end, you can place here.

Hope you all get clear idea.

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Technology is growing day by day. No one can stop it. Web services are lightweight and easy to use. Industry it is provide to connect external application with Dynamics NAV. Dynamics NAV 2013R2 will provide such a facility to create and publish Dynamics NAV functionality as web service. Either you can you pages or codeunits or queries as web services.

So we have two type of web services which are SOAP and OData. But we are going to talk about SOAP.

SOAP web services giving us full flexibility for building operation-centric services. Also they provide industry-standard interoperability and channel and host pluggability.

Page as Web Services

If you expose any of page as SOAP web service , it giving default set of operations that you can user to manipulate data, such as create,delete,update or Read.

same as you can use codeunit and publish it as a web service.

How to publish Codeunit / Page as web service in Dynamics NAV 2013R2

AXIS CAPITAL CONS FINAL/Departments/Administration/IT Administration/General

• Go to Departments, then Administration then IT Administration then General
• After that you can find Web Service under the list.
• Click on it .
• Click on New
• 
• Select Either page or Codeunit
• Select the Object ID that you want to publish
• Give a suitable name as service name
• Then click on Publish
• Finally you will get the URL

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This is an invalid type of primary key for the autosplitkey facility. It should be Integer/BigInteger/Decimal/GUID.

This is why, If you use the property of Autosplitkey as Yes, It is necessary to end your primary key with integer.As a example,if you use bellow combination and set Yes in Autosplitkey, you will get above error. My example I have primary key like this Document No.,Line No.,Date .This is not ending with Integer Type .So if you create like this (Document No.,Date,Line No.) you never get this error.

Lesson learned :: If you really want to use Autoslitkey property , You should have Integer type filed at the end of the Primary Key . 

NOTE ::: DO NOT CHANGE PRIMARY KEY IN DYNAMICS NAV BASE TABLE.

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