Posts by Mark Anderson
Tech Tuesday: Bringing in expenses from an outside system to NAV/D365 Business Central
When bringing expenses from another system into Dynamics NAV or Business Central the expense file downloaded can have a different name every download. With NAV/BC you need to have an additional offset total that is the sum of all expenses but is a negative amount. Since the files will be named differently each time, we…
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Tech Thursday: New Field Types in Extender
We have added two new field types to Extender, Website and Email Address. As you can see in the screenshot below the 2 new field types were added to an Extender window. One for the Vendor Website and one for the Contact email address.These new fields will work on an Extender form as well, just…
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Tech Tuesday: Extender Window Notes Hide Fields
Have you ever created a Note Window within Extender and when you open the note window, you wished you could see more of the actual note, and not have to see author, date or time? We have added the ability to hide fields on the note window.In Extender while defining the window, you can see…
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Tech Tuesday: SmartConnect Versions You Should Use When Upgrading
When you are looking to upgrade an older version of software to the latest and (hopefully) greatest version available, there is always the question of “What version do I need to be on to be able to upgrade?” There are many upgrade paths and while it is always a good idea to stay on the…
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Tech Thursday : Extender Enterprise Pre Save Task
Have you ever needed the ability to stop a record from saving in Extender based on some criteria? You have, well so have we! We added the ability to Extender Enterprise 2016 (version 16.00.0030 and higher) and Extender Enterprise 2018.While we cannot stop the save process of every process, we have added the ability to…
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Five Steps to Developer-Free Integrations
There are typically two thoughts when it comes to personally creating an integration: “It’s easy, it’s just mapping fields!” OR “I’m not technical so I can’t do it.” While neither is 100% true, the 1st option is typically more correct. There are many integrations that fall into the “It’s easy!” camp and there are others that…
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Reporting: Data Accuracy Impacts Report Quality – Part 2
As we recently learned, bad data can result in poor business decisions. There are key factors that contribute to bad data but also important steps you can take to ensure that you have the best quality data possible.Integrate your systemsThe top way to solve your issue with bad data is to integrate your systems. Gone…
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Reporting: Data Accuracy Impacts Report Quality – Part 1
Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, has been quoted saying, “Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves.” After all, it’s the data the systems share with us that allow us to make major business decisions. Those decisions set the course for the company, for individual employees,…
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Tech Tuesday : Write Back Error Message
While doing an integration into Dynamics GP, have you ever wanted to be able to write back the error message returned by Dynamics GP to the source system? However, the error message is “too confusing”, so you would rather just show the error description to make it easier to read. For example, here is the…
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Bad Data: The Ugly Truth
Success of a business can be made by the quality of its data. Think about it – your data tells the story of your potential to grow, sell, or change. Bad data can start a business down a vicious cycle. When you have bad data in your system it results in invalid reports. Invalid reports…
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