Create Items with Item Templates in New NAV and Madeira

First, this feature is currently published in Project “Madeira” and I’m sure it will be part of NAV 2017, but almost all about NAV 2017 is still by NDA and I cannot write about it.

But this feature is looks fine and I want to share it. When we created new Items we usually used Item Category to preconfigure some fields for item. But now, I think we have a better feature. We can just configure page “Set Up Customer/Vendor/Item Templates” with a lot of data. And that means this feature is not connected only with Items (you notice it right); you can also use this feature as template for other codes.

Now, you can chose one of the templates from list or to create your own template choosing table number to dedicate template to some of the tables. OK, if you want to create Item Template, you will use table 27.

When you open Item template, you can see that now you can configure lot of different fields, as for example:

Base Unit of Measure
Automatic Extended Texts
Type (Inventory or Service)
Price include tax and Price/Profit Calculation with profit and discount groups
Costing Method and Indirect Cost
and Posting groups in Financial Details

But you can do even more, you can open Dimensions command from ribbon and preconfigure dimensions and dimension value and as well as value posting for dimensions (mandatory, same code, no code). And now when you want to create new Item, system will ask you what Item Template you want to use from all enabled templates.

If you want to change something you can later use command “Apply Template” from ribbon to add some template to your item.

If you didn’t use some template or if you changed some details, you can also use command “Save as Template” to save these values as template for some other usage.

Interesting feature and you can use this not only for items. This is more standardized feature in comparison with older versions.

NAV Madeira is NAV 2017

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We know the name now. The next release of Microsoft Dynamics NAV will be NAV 2017. It is no longer a secret and we will not use the code name NAV “Madeira” in the future.

New version will have a lot of new improvements, but I’ll share more about it with you very soon (it is still by NDA). Currently, this is just a small fast news.

Microsoft Dynamics 365!

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Today, Microsoft published story about Microsoft Dynamics 365 on Partner Source and on their blog. And in the same moment, they’ve also published Microsoft AppSource. What is this?

Microsoft says that this represents the end-to-end intelligent business applications in the cloud and it will be worldwide available in the fall of this year. Generally Dynamics 365 will bring the best of Dynamics ERP and CRM solutions and currently it is based on Project “Madeira” (but not only; we can expect the enterprise edition of Dynamics 365 based on AX) and CRM Online, but not only on them. It will provide the main business processes as Finance, Sales, Customer Service, Field Service, Operations, Marketing and Project Service Automation.

And even more. This is not closed system. This system is natively integrated with big data and IoT, Power BI, Cortana Intelligence, Microsoft Flow,… everything what you need and when you need. Classic Software-As-A-Service story, but very advanced. I think I don’t need to spend my words about integration with Office 365; this integration will be extremely deep (you already saw just a part of this in my previous article about using “Madeira” with Outlook).

And of course, if you want to know something more about it, the best is to attend on WPC during the July. Microsoft will provide three session about this new solution. You can also see more about it on Summit this year (Scott Guthrie will speak about it) and I hope on Directions.

You can expect more from me about this soon. But this is just small the first introduction about new solution in the family; remember this name – Microsoft Dynamics 365.

July 2016 NAV Cumulative Updates

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Yesterday (July 5th) new NAV Cumulative Updates have been released. As usually in expectation of new NAV version, Microsoft published updates for the last four NAV versions:

You can download them for the previous links. If you are thinking if this is the right moment for your upgrade to the last version and the last Cumulative Update, the answer is YES. Very soon we will get the newest very impressive NAV version and this will be the first step in preparation for using the newest NAV version.

As usually, NAV 2016 has the most of hotfixes, both platform and application, NAV 2015 slightly less and for the other two versions, just few of them. You can also find some local application hotfixes.

Project Madeira with Desktop Outlook

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In my few previous articles, I showed you how you can use Project “Madeira” with Outlook. But in all these posts, I used Outlook Online. You can also do everything the same in Desktop Outlook. You just must use Exchange Online.

Because of that, I want to show just some example in Desktop Outlook using Office 2016. You can use all examples I already showed. In this my small example, I got an email about some Invoice Issue from client.

In this case, you just need to run “Desktop Links” add-in and Outlook will open your invoice in email body. For example, I’ll make an invoice correction and change discount fro 5% to 10% and re-post and re-send invoice to my customer.

You just need to choose Correct and system will make and post credit-memo, the same as invoice and create new invoice with the same data. You will change everything you want and choose “Post and Send”. System will post this invoice and create new email with this invoice in attachment as PDF.

But we have something more. In the right corner, we can find “Contact Insight” button and when we run it, we will get all information about this customer in the right pane. This pane is interactive and that means you can click on any data and you will get new information here.

Also, you can find “New” button and we can create all sales and purchase documents from this place. I think almost all functionalities in the Online and Desktop Outlook are mostly the same, but Desktop Outlook experience is even better.

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Month: July 2016