Now you can download NAV 2015!

18/09/201418/09/2014 atotovic Microsoft Dynamics NAV Microsoft Dynamics NAV, NAV, NAV 2015, PartnerSource

Finally, Microsoft has published Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015 today, for all partners. Last few days, a lot of friends have asked me from where and when they can download the last Microsoft Dynamics NAV release. Now, we can do it from Partner Source. Go to the following link to download.

You can find W1 version and 20 other localized versions, depends of country you need. For other countries, you need to wait localization partners solutions (Translation Kit will be available soon).

As previous announced, Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015 can be ordered from the October, 1st for a new customers and from October 6th for existed customers. Customer still can order Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 R2 if they want it, as well downgrading license key.

Important notice: Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015 introduces license key versioning with the following specifications:

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015 license keys are not compatible with Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 R2 or Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013.
Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 R2 and Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 license keys are not compatible with Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015.

Report Scheduling in NAV 2015

17/09/2014 atotovic Microsoft Dynamics NAV Microsoft, Microsoft Dynamics NAV, NAV, NAV 2015, Report, Tablet

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015 offers an easy way to run reports on Microsoft Dynamics NAV Server at a specified time and deliver the resultant report to a ‘Report Inbox’ on your Role Center.

This new feature – scheduling reports lets end-users to:

Run performance intensive reports on the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Server.
Free up user interface threads while reports are running.
Save the resultant reports for later viewing.

The user can select when reports are run and the output format, such as .PDF or Word. We can do it when we want to print document. Only we need is to choose schedule option and fill dialog box with date and time when we want to get a report.

If we want to use this feature, we first need to make some configuration. We have to set up a job queue that will run the scheduled reports and add the report inbox to the Role Center. When we configure all of these and when we run report scheduling, we can see that we have new report in report inbox on role center in scheduled date and time. After that, we can double-click on these new report entry and open the report.

Fine new feature, especially when we have sized reports which requires a lot of times for creating. This functionality works from all clients, it doesn’t matter is this Windows, Web or Tablet Client.

Mandatory Fields in NAV 2015

16/09/2014 atotovic Microsoft Dynamics NAV Client, Microsoft, Microsoft Dynamics NAV, NAV, NAV 2015

I suppose that all of you who are already developers, have requirements to mark fields that specify whether users must enter a value. Now, with new ShowMandatory property on page fields, we can do it easily. This is small, but very useful thing in NAV 2015.

When we set value in field as mandatory, the field will be marked on the page with a red asterisk and does not enforce any validation. Once the field is filled, the red asterisk disappears. When we configure this property, this red asterisk will appear on all Microsoft Dynamics NAV clients – Windows, Web and Tablet Clients. In Windows Client, the red asterisk is inside the mandatory field, but in Web and Tablet Clients, the asterisk is in front the field. Everything works the same in all clients. The ShowMandatory property can be specified as true, false, or as an expression.

As remark, the ShowMandatory property controls marking the page field with a red asterisk independently of the NotBlank Property. The ShowMandatory property can be used to mark all page fields, but does not enforce any validation of the field. This means that the user will be able to close a page without entering data.

Tablet Client in NAV 2015

15/09/201427/09/2014 atotovic Microsoft Dynamics NAV App, Client, Microsoft, Microsoft Dynamics NAV, NAV, NAV 2015, Tablet

As I already wrote, Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015 introduce a new user interface called Microsoft Dynamics NAV Tablet Client. While the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Windows and Web Clients are designed for mouse and keyboard interaction, the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Tablet Client allows users to get access to the data they need from the touch device they prefer, but only on devices in screen sizes range, longer than 7 inches and with screen resolution 960 × 510.

One important thing, we can use new Microsoft Dynamics NAV Tablet Client on devices, regardless of their operating system. It means that we can use it on Windows tablets, but also on iPad or Android tablets.

For testing purpose, you can open Tablet Client in your browser, but for your really usage, you need to use Apps. Using of SSL is mandatory because of security issues. you can download Apps from different sites, according your platform:

You can also run Tablet Client using browser (IE11 and Chrome 36.0 for Windows are prefered), but if you run Tablet Client from browsers on iPad or Android tablets, you will not be able to download files from client and you will maybe have some other limitations. You can do it from Windows tablets, but if you want other tablets and download files, you have to run this Client from Apps. Microsoft made possibility for Tablet Client using from browser only for developing and testing purpose.

Tablet Client is multilanguage client. As on Web Client, we need to configure Tablet Client on the same way for this purpose. The language that is set for the Client comes from the Web Server Instances and you can specify it on your web.config file. That means that for one Web Server Instance, we have one language. If we want to provide multiple languages, than we have to provide multiple Web Server Instances.

In following posts, I will bring you user experience using Tablet Client.

You can find here system requirements for Tablet Client on browser and Tablet Client Apps on MSDN.

NAV 2015 is Alive

14/09/2014 atotovic Microsoft Dynamics NAV Directions, Microsoft, Microsoft Dynamics NAV, NAV, NAV 2015

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015 is formal presented on Direction US. Now, this release is no longer a secret and we can speak about it. This release is announcing to be available on October 1st to new customers and on October 6th to existing customers. If I’m not wrong, new NAV will be available in 25 localization versions, but for lot of other countries, we still need to prepare localizations, but I think it will not be a big job.

From tomorrow, I will be happy to make available a some technical news every day: client changes, page and report changes, new cmdlets, and lots of other enhancements.

Reservations and Planning/Projected availability calculation

09/09/201409/09/2014 atotovic Microsoft Dynamics NAV calculation, inventory, Microsoft Dynamics NAV, MRP, MSDN, NAV, planning, reservations

Microsoft Dynamics Team Blog publish one interesting article today. This one is about impact of Reservations in the Planning and Projected availability calculation. Does planning and projecting system include or not reserved quantities in the calculation?

You can find all details on: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/nav/archive/2014/09/09/reservations-versus-planning-and-projected-availability-calculation.aspx

Excellent described processes.

Inventory Planning in Microsoft Dynamics NAV

03/09/2014 atotovic Microsoft Dynamics NAV inventory, Microsoft, Microsoft Dynamics NAV, MRP, planning

Last year I wrote about inventory planning in Microsoft Dynamics NAV (most of them is for NAV2013 or/and NAV2013R2) on my old blog. I think, I can make small reminder on these articles, because this is always current topic.

This is small ‘Table Of Content’ with links to the articles on my blog on the Microsoft Dynamics Community.

Inventory Planning – part 1 (Microsoft Dynamics NAV): The basic Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 planning concept as flowchart;
Inventory Planning – part 2 (Microsoft Dynamics NAV): The basic Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 planning concept as flowchart;
Inventory Planning – part 3 (Microsoft Dynamics NAV): Flowcharts for calculating of date for methods of stock demands and availability (Purchase Order Time Calculation, Production Order Time Calculation, Sales Order Time Calculation, Transfer Order Time Calculation);
Inventory Planning – part 4 (Microsoft Dynamics NAV): Flowchart of demand and supply situation of the item and calculation of the projected available balance;
Inventory Planning – part 5 (Microsoft Dynamics NAV): Net Actual Demand against the Forecast in Manufacturing Planning (flowcharts, descriptions and examples);
Inventory Planning – part 6 (Microsoft Dynamics NAV): The base planning setup (Inventory Setup, Manufacturing Setup) – initially global planning setup in NAV;
Inventory Planning – part 7 (Microsoft Dynamics NAV): The specific Item Card Planning Setup;
Inventory Planning – part 8 (Purchase Planning in Microsoft Dynamics NAV): Operational work in planning process for purchase.
Inventory Planning – part 9 (Manufacturing Planning in Microsoft Dynamics NAV): Operational work in planning process for manufacturing.
Inventory Planning – part 10 (Microsoft Dynamics NAV): Reordering Policy examples:
Inventory Planning using many locations – SKUs – 1
Inventory Planning with SKU – 2 (demand flowchart)

OK, I need to finish with remaining subtopics, and because of that I made this reminder here.

Waiting for NAV 2015 again

02/09/201402/09/2014 atotovic Microsoft Dynamics NAV Microsoft, Microsoft Dynamics NAV, NAV 2015

I already wrote about this topic. I want to tell you more about NAV 2015, but I need to wait. We got the message that after Directions US keynote, we can speak all we now about this NAV release. This is only 12 days and after that, I will make blog series about NAV 2015. I can’t wait.
If you can, the best solution is to come on some conferences, scheduled in following one or two months to see NAV 2015 in live:
-Directions US, San Diego (14.09.-16.09.) http://www.navdirections.com/
-Directions EMEA, Poznan (08.10.-10.10.) http://www.directionsemea.com/
-NAVUG Summit, St. Luis (14.10.–17.10.) http://www.navug.com/
-Convergence EMEA, Barcelona (04.10.-06.10.) http://www.microsoft.com/dynamics/convergence/europe14/?p=topnav
-NAV TechDays, Antwerp (19.11.-21.11.) http://www.navtechdays.com/

Also, you can expect a lot of new “How Do I” videos about Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015.

Welcome to my new blog

28/08/201406/03/2016 atotovic General Microsoft, Microsoft Dynamics NAV

Hi. This is my new blog totovic.com. I already wrote a blog on http://nav4construction.wordpress.com/, but I decided to leave this blog dedicated only to construction business. In earlier period, I wrote non-construction NAV articles directly on Microsoft Community Blog, but I think now is the time to open new blog dedicated only about Microsoft Dynamics NAV. We will get new NAV version (NAV 2015) soon and I want to write here about it.