Since the advent of RTC clients and 3-tier architecture of Dynamics NAV, it’s been a question in the minds of thousands of NAV developers as well as end-users, that how to find out the idle time of the users connected to the service tier. There were some add-on solutions available in the market prior to the newer versions of Dynamics NAV, which people used to identify and stop idle user sessions. But, now these add-ons were no more able to do it, because the architecture changed and the wa...

I discovered something quite interesting couple of week back and I thought it was worth sharing.When you create an object type variable in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015 and you leave out the name then NAV will automatically suggest the name based on the subtype. So, when creating variables that are pages, records, reports, codeunit, xmlports, etc. then there is no need to enter a variable name anymore.Here is how NAV will automatically suggest the name based of the subtype.As mentio...

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 onwards there are no “Database Logins” supported. It means, no need to create all the users in SQL database, because the user authentication is not on SQL server level, but on NAV server level. When you create a new user, you provide different information depending on the credential type that you are using in current Microsoft Dynamics NAV Server instance. But all users of a Microsoft Dynamics NAV Server instance must be using the same credential type. You...

This feature is one with which we have simplification of user interface and faster work, but currently only in “Small Business role center” this feature is possibility to correct or cancel already posted sales invoices and Posted purchase invoices, but only if we have item in the lines.(Type is Item in the sales  and purchase invoice lines).You can correct or cancel a posted sales /purchase invoices. This is useful if you make a mistake or if the customer/vendor request a change...

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015 has introduced a simple way to automatically running reports at desired intervals with the report scheduling option. The report scheduler runs the report in the NAV server and saves the output in PDF, Word or Excel format. You can also see the generated report in the new “Report Inbox” pane introduced in the Role Center page. With the report scheduler you can:1.       Schedule resource intensive reports at times of less usage ...