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How to export data with a date formula filter?

Recently, I got the following question from a partner: Using NAVBIS, is it possible to export data by applying a date formula as a filter? In this case the customer wants to: Export all transactions created in the past week Run … Continue reading

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How to trigger different notifications from one Microsoft Dynamics NAV page?

One of the powerful features of NAVBIS 2013 is that you can trigger notifications (or other BIS pipelines) with events. Recently I got a question if it was possible to have one button allows the user to select which notification should be triggered. … Continue reading

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Import Document Dimensions with NAVBIS 2013

One of the major changes of Microsoft Dynamics NAV2013 compared to NAV2009 is the dimension system. This has been changed quite drastically. This has an direct impact on integrations which import dimensions into Microsoft Dynamics NAV. The 2013 dimension concept … Continue reading

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Advanced Notification : Due Invoices per Sales Person

Recently I was involved with a case in which some finance notifications were required. One of the notifications was an alert for the sales persons with all invoices which are due for more than 30 days. This alert had to … Continue reading

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Job Queue Processing – NAVBIS

Job Queue Processing has been seamlessly integrated with NAVBIS2013. It is important to remember that the standard Job Queue engine has not been changed. Several endpoints, events and activities have been provided with job queue capabilities: File Receiver Endpoint; uses … Continue reading

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Job Queue Processing – Sessions

Recently I was involved in a project were job queue processing was for a multi-company scenario. In this scenario various messages were exchanged between the headquarter, sales company and the manufacturing site. In this article I would like to zoom … Continue reading

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Custom Connector 2.0

Recently I was involved with a migration project for one of our customers. This customer is upgrading from a 5.00.01 environment to 2013. They are currently using connectivity studio. One of the questions which came up was how you can … Continue reading

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Job Queue Processing – Overview

In many integration scenarios automated message processing is a crucial aspect. It has always be a core element of NAVBIS. For NAVBIS2013 the importance of the job queue has been increased. It is now an integral element of the solution. … Continue reading

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Include Field Values in File Name Expressions

In the past months we have been involved with a number of Notification Management 2013 implementations. In order to make it easier to configure the system, the good old nav2009 expressions were replaced by a more straight-forward expression system for … Continue reading

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The NAV2009 Blocks format and NAVBIS2013

Recently I was involved with a 2013 upgrade project. The customer was using our BIS solution for many years and are now migrating to NAV2013. One of the changes we made in NAVBIS2013 is to replace the internal blocks format by … Continue reading

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