Olof Simren - Microsoft Dynamics NAV & 365 Business Central Blog

Several people that have read my previous post, Run Objects in NAV 2013 using GETURL, has asked me about the record deletion tool that I was working on. So, here it is! 🙂 It is available for NAV 2015 on the downloads page. This data deletion tool is useful if you want to ‘clean’ a company […]

A question that I receive frequently is; ‘how do I run Dynamics NAV as a different user?’. A basic question it seems, but not everybody is aware of how it can be done. It could for example be that you are testing permissions and you want to run one client with SUPER user access to do […]

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015 was released a couple of weeks ago. I have download and installed it and so far it seems like it can co-exist with Dynamics NAV 2013 R2 without any issues (which was not the case with my 2013 and 2013 R2 versions, so this is great). To me the improvements that […]

This is something I first discovered some months ago, and back then I didn’t think that much about it. Recently someone asked me if it was possible, and I thought it would be worth a quick small blog post. Yes, you can sort on multiple columns in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 (with some limitations though). […]

One of the new features in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 is the ability to enter formulas like ‘%me’ and ‘%myitems’ while setting filters. Dynamics NAV then replaces the formula with values while applying the filter. Some of the formulas that comes standard are for example; ‘%me’ and ‘%user’ will be converted in to the USERID, […]

I have never used Microsoft OneNote that much, never really seen a need for it (I usually just have my notes in Word). So, when Microsoft announced that there will be a OneNote integration with Dynamics NAV last year I didn’t think that much about it. But when I finally tried it out myself I […]

Here is a small trick that I have used a couple of times to turn the report selections into a selection dialog in Microsoft Dynamics NAV. The report selection table in Dynamics NAV is used to specify what report(s) to run when a user prints a document such as an order confirmation. Part of the […]

Here is an example of how to create a custom chart in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 R2 using the business chart control add-in that is provided by the Microsoft.Dynamics.Nav.Client.BusinessChart.dll assembly. It sounds complicated, but it is actually quite easy. The example shows how to create a work center load chart that shows available vs. allocated […]

I thought it would be cool to be able to get the role center parts to interact with each-other in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 R2. I wanted to see if it was possible to have a role center part to display different information based on what was highlighted in another role center part. This way the role center […]

Here is an example of how you can create a customized progress bar in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 R2. It uses the System.Drawing.Graphics .net method to draw a progress bar and display it to the user in a BLOB field. This method can basically be used to generate any type of graphic and display it in […]