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Recently I have been implemented a Danish version of Dynamics Navision 2009 SP1 on an English SBS server and there I meet an old “friend”.

The old “friend” was a problem with the Danish letter Ø. The letter was displayed as Ȼ which is not the right sign (actually the data was also corrupt ). At first side everything looked fine in the regional settings and the language was set to Danish – but then I looked on the Advance page and voilá there we had the answer. Code Page 850 was not selected.
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I wish you all a Merry Christmas!

In the spirit of the upcoming holidays I have been playing around with Dynamics Navision.
The result was a Dynamics Xmas Greeting

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I was invited by Houston Neal, Manufacturing Software Advice, to comment on his post regarding the difference between NAV, GP, SL and AX.

It was quite an interesting reading and I must say that Houston did a splendid job in describing the different Microsoft ERP packages.

If you are about to choose one of the ERPs from Microsoft and are in doubt about what to choose; then take a look at his article. It gives you an overview of each of the ERPs packages broken down into Modules and which makes it easy for you to compare them.

You can read his complete post here.

Shortcuts was first introduced in NAV 4.0 – and did made the world of Navision a bit easier

If you have customers or work in a company with a lot of users, you might wish to set up a template user. Read the rest of this entry »

Today I had a funny error – my menu items in the navigation pane did disappear if I made shortcuts to them.

Therefore I did some testing and here is what a figured out:

1. Open a fresh client
2. Add shortcuts to a menu item or a menu group
3. Check shortcuts – they were created fine

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Have you also been wondering about which page are the default page, where to set it up and what to do if a user should have a different page.

Well… it is actually pretty easy
 

1) What is the default page? The default page is usually page 9006 “Order Processor Role Center”.

So how did I find it out? Well I think like a developer – so why use forms, when you can go straight into tables Read the rest of this entry »