As you know we have been happily developing extensions for a while now. Every once in a while I blog about some stuff I found out recently but it is mostly smooth sailing at the moment. Today I was stumped though. For some reason my symbols were not loading. I make it a point toContinue reading “Symbols of madness”
Author Archives: René Brummel
On death and Dynamics NAV
I really cannot imagine how mourning can be managed. And that is precisely the problem I have with the term Change Management. It lacks the means to address our deep rooted fear of change that is ultimately fear of death.
Dimensions of woe
So today I wanted to create a simple text variable with 3 dimensions in my extension. Normally no big deal but how on earth do I define dimensions in my variables? It turns out they are now called Arrays. So that is an improvement but the documentation is worthless. And again, nothing to be foundContinue reading “Dimensions of woe”
Why I named my company after Papa Smurf.
Red and Bundle means that while we as IT specialists sometimes seem to be practicing magic we cannot save the world all by ourselves. If we want to overcome obstacles we have to work together.
Get server and database information in AL
Today I wanted to get some basic information about my NAV2018 service and database name in my extension. A quick Google found a lot of useful stuff about this but nothing that was easy enough for me. I really did not want to go messing about with xml or dotNET. This is basic stuff right?Continue reading “Get server and database information in AL”