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Config File Gotcha

I came across something that was a bit weird in an implementation where every user in a Citrix deployed RoleTailored client suddenly connected to the TEST system instead of the LIVE system. I thought I’d share this gotcha to save others from making the...

Published 02-03-2012 11:08 p.m. by David Roys

Filed under: Gotcha, NAV 2009 SP1, Tip, NAV 2009 R2

Service Tier and Classic Client Monstrous Nightmare with FieldRef

I came across an error today that was a monstrous nightmare to track down. First of all, it worked in the Classic client but not in the RoleTailored client. Sigh. Don’t you just hate that? It means going through the pain of debugging the RoleTailored...

Published 08-12-2011 9:49 p.m. by David Roys

Filed under: Programming, Gotcha, Tip, NAV 2009 R2

Make me squeal

If God had wanted me to work, he wouldn’t have given me Angry Birds. I figured it was about time I wrote something about Dynamics NAV again, so setting my continuing mission to get three stars on all levels to one side, I’ve finally taken time...

Published 06-20-2011 10:07 p.m. by David Roys

Filed under: .NET, Programming, Gotcha, Tip, SQL, NAV 2009 R2

NAV 2009 Server Starts and then Stops

Have you ever tried to create a NAV 2009 Server service that runs under a domain account and when you try to start it, the service starts and them immediately stops again. Then, if you look in the Windows Event Log for the error message you see something...

Published 01-20-2010 1:31 p.m. by David Roys

Filed under: .NET, Gotcha, NAV 2009 SP1, NAV 2009

The specified path is invalid. When using UPLOADINTOSTREAM.

I recently tried using UPLOADINTOSTREAM to load a file from the RoleTailored client into a temporary file on the NAV Server so that I could then process it. This is needed in NAV 2009 because it has three tiers and the tier on which the code executes...

Published 01-01-2010 3:16 p.m. by David Roys

Filed under: Programming, Gotcha, NAV 2009

Where did my xRec go?

In the RoleTailored client on a Page, the xRec does not contain a record when you are inserting new records into a sub page. Previously if you wanted to know where you had pressed F3 to insert a line you could take a look at xRec and would know which...

Published 11-02-2009 11:08 a.m. by David Roys

Filed under: Programming, Gotcha, NAV 2009 SP1

Option Type Parameter Values

NAV Supports various data types for parameters to functions, one of which is an Option. An option data type is stored internally as a number but will appear on screen, in reports as text. In other systems this is referred to as an enumerated type. Option...

Published 09-08-2009 1:27 p.m. by David Roys

Filed under: Programming, Gotcha, Wish List

User Personalization in Web services got me again!

In my last Web service gotcha post , I wrote about how a User Personalisation record is needed to ensure dates are handled correctly when executing Web services. Today I discovered that if you fill in the Company field on the user personalisation, you...

Published 08-04-2009 6:58 p.m. by David Roys

Filed under: Web services, Gotcha

Using a Service Account for Unattended Execution of NAV Web Services - Gotcha

If you are planning on using the new NAV 2009 Web services capabilities as a means of running scheduled tasks, you must ensure that the Windows user account that is to be used to execute the task has a User Personalisation record with the correct Language...

Published 07-23-2009 12:43 p.m. by David Roys

Filed under: Web services, Gotcha

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