Implementing Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013
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- Successfully handle your first Dynamics NAV 2013 implementation
- Explore the new features that will help you provide more value to your customers
- Full of illustrations and diagrams with clear step-by-step instructions and real-world tips extracted from years of experience
Book Details
Language : EnglishPaperback : 554 pages [ 235mm x 191mm ]
Release Date : February 2013
ISBN : 1849686025
ISBN 13 : 9781849686020
Author(s) : Laura Nicolàs Lorente, Cristina Nicolàs Lorente
Topics and Technologies : All Books, Microsoft Dynamics, Enterprise
Table of Contents
PrefaceChapter 1: Introducing Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013
Chapter 2: What's New in NAV 2013
Chapter 3: Dynamics NAV – General Considerations
Chapter 4: The Implementation Process
Chapter 5: The Implementation Process on the Customer Side
Chapter 6: Migrating Data
Chapter 7: Upgrading to Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013
Chapter 8: Development Considerations
Chapter 9: Functional Changes on Existing Implementations
Chapter 10: Data Analysis and Reporting
Chapter 11: Debugging
Chapter 12: The Query Object
Chapter 13: Applications Included in Dynamics NAV
Index
- Chapter 1: Introducing Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013
- Understanding Microsoft Dynamics NAV
- History of Dynamics NAV
- Functional areas
- Financial Management
- Accountancy
- G/L budgets
- Account schedules
- Cash management
- Fixed Assets
- VAT reporting and intrastat
- Intercompany transactions
- Consolidation
- Multicurrency
- Sales & Marketing
- Customers
- Order processing
- Approvals
- Pricing
- Marketing
- Purchase
- Vendors
- Order processing
- Approvals
- Pricing
- Planning
- Warehouse
- Items
- Locations
- Transfer orders
- Assembly
- Pick and put-away
- Inventory
- Manufacturing
- Product design
- Capacities
- Planning
- Execution
- Costing
- Subcontracting
- Job
- Job card
- Phases and tasks
- Planning
- Time sheet
- Invoice jobs
- Work in process (WIP)
- Resource planning
- Resource card
- Pricing
- Service
- Service items
- Contracts
- Price management
- Service orders
- Service tasks
- Fault reporting
- Human resources
- Employees
- Absence registration
- Country localizations
- Vertical and horizontal solutions
- Access Dynamics NAV
- Windows client
- Web client
- SharePoint client
- Web Services
- Development environment
- Summary
- Chapter 2: What's New in NAV 2013
- Application changes
- Improvements to the Windows client
- Ribbon
- Select all
- Copy/paste rows
- Quick Entry
- New keyboard shortcuts
- Business Intelligence and KPIs
- User collaboration tools
- Application features
- Financial Management
- Assembly management
- Warehouse management
- Inventory
- Supply planning
- Jobs
- Resources
- RapidStart Services
- CRM integration
- Payment services
- Development changes
- Development Environment
- Debugging
- Page development
- Page testing
- Report development
- Query development
- XMLport development
- Start ID Offset
- Changes to C/AL functions, data types, properties, and triggers
- .NET interoperability
- Enhancements in RoleTailored client control add-ins
- Standard C/AL code redesign
- G/L Entry table locking redesign
- Storing dimension entries
- ADCS
- IT changes
- Installation
- Dynamics NAV Server Administration
- Windows PowerShell 2.0 cmdlets
- Web client
- Portal Framework for SharePoint 2010
- User and credential types
- NAS services
- OData web services
- Database changes
- Unicode
- ClickOnce
- Deprecated features
- Deprecated application features
- Deprecated developer and IT features
- Summary
- Chapter 3: Dynamics NAV – General Considerations
- The data model
- Master data
- Documents
- Journals
- Entries
- Creating ledger entries
- Combining all concepts
- No Save button
- The main advantage
- When is data checked
- The main contra
- The posting routines
- Checking the posting routine with an example
- Posted data cannot be modified (or deleted)
- Navigating through your data
- The Navigate functionality
- Other ways to navigate
- Filtering to find the data you need
- Real-time data gathering – the SIFT technology
- Everything leads to accounting
- The Dynamics NAV database
- The TableRelation property
- Coded data rules
- Summary
- Chapter 4: The Implementation Process
- What is an implementation
- Methodology
- The Waterfall approach
- The Agile approach
- Using the best of both
- Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step
- Project types based on the Waterfall approach
- The Agile project type
- Roles
- Salesperson
- Project manager
- Business consultant
- Key users
- Analyst
- Developer
- Implementer
- End users
- Summarizing the roles
- Phases
- Presales
- Getting the project requirements
- Designing the solution
- Configuration
- Modifying standard Dynamics NAV functionality
- New functionalities
- Data migration
- Development
- Deployment
- Software and hardware installation
- Configuration
- Data migration
- User-acceptance test
- End users' training
- Go-live!
- Support
- Summary
- Chapter 5: The Implementation Process on the Customer Side
- Definition of goals
- Defining the internal processes
- Questions to be asked
- Improve before automating
- Getting the requirements
- Change management
- Get involved in testing the system
- Involve end users
- Summary
- Chapter 6: Migrating Data
- Tools to migrate data
- RapidStart Services
- Configuration wizard
- Configuration packages
- Configuration worksheet
- Configuration templates
- Configuration questionnaire
- Summary of RapidStart Services
- Using XMLports to migrate data
- The XMLport structure
- Running the XMLport
- Writing code inside the XMLport
- Writing your own tools
- Converting data from the old system to suit Dynamics NAV's needs
- Master data
- Open entries
- Customer entries
- Vendor entries
- Bank entries
- Item entries
- Fixed-asset entries
- Accounting balances
- Historical data
- Open documents
- Choosing a go-live date
- Going live at the beginning of the fiscal year
- Going live in the middle of a fiscal year
- Summary
- Chapter 7: Upgrading to Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013
- Upgrading philosophy
- Upgrading process checklist
- Preparing to upgrade
- Upgrading from 2009, 2009 SP1 or 2009 R2
- Upgrading the 2009 application code
- Upgrading the 2009 data
- Upgrading from 5.0 or 5.0 SP1
- Upgrading the 5.0 application code
- Upgrading the 5.0 data
- Upgrading from 4.0, 4.0 SP1, 4.0 SP2, or 4.0 SP3
- Upgrading the 4.0 application code
- Upgrading the 4.0 data
- Upgrading from 3.60 or 3.70
- Upgrading the 3.60 or 3.70 application code
- Upgrading the 3.60 or 3.70 data
- Upgrading steps in detail
- Preparing to upgrade
- Migrating to SQL Server
- Testing the database
- Upgrading the application code
- Getting object versions
- Converting objects to the Dynamics NAV 2013 format
- Carrying out customizations to the new version
- Transforming forms to pages
- Transforming reports
- Revising and modifying customized code
- Upgrading the data
- Upgrading tools
- Upgrade Toolkit
- Text format upgrade
- Form transformation
- Report transformation
- Upgrading Hybrid reports
- Upgrading Classic reports
- Comparing text tools
- MergeTool
- Downloading MergeTool
- Installing MergeTool
- Using MergeTool
- Summary
- Chapter 8: Development Considerations
- Setup versus customization
- Data model principles
- Basic objects
- Object elements
- How tables are structured
- Understanding table structures
- The final picture
- The structure of pages
- Understanding page structures
- The final picture
- The posting process
- The codeunit structure for sales posting
- The codeunit structure for general journal posting
- Where to write customized code
- Validating fields
- Checking data
- Batch jobs
- How to write customized code
- Language
- Spacing and alignment
- Comments
- Text constants
- C/AL statements
- Naming conventions
- Naming objects
- Using small functions
- Summary
- Chapter 9: Functional Changes on Existing Implementations
- General guidelines
- What is a functional change
- The Requisition Worksheet
- Fixed Assets
- Item Tracking
- Extending a customized functionality
- Interactions with other functionalities
- The Requisition Worksheet
- Fixed Assets
- Item Tracking
- Creating a new item
- Creating and posting a purchase order for the new item
- Creating and posting a Sales Order for the new item
- Turning on Item Tracking for the new item
- Undoing the Sales Shipment posted for the new item
- Extending a customized functionality
- Writing a to-do list to implement a change
- The Requisition Worksheet
- Fixed Assets
- Item Tracking
- Extending a customized functionality
- Choosing the right time
- The Requisition Worksheet
- Fixed Assets
- Item Tracking
- Extending a customized functionality
- Planning the change
- The Requisition Worksheet
- Fixed Assets
- Item Tracking
- Extending a customized functionality
- Summary
- Chapter 10: Data Analysis and Reporting
- Using filters and FlowFilters
- Creating Views
- Statistics
- Charts
- The Show as Chart option
- Adding charts to the Role Center page
- Creating and configuring charts
- Using reports
- Finding reports
- Running reports
- Types of reports
- List reports
- Test reports
- Posting reports
- Transaction reports
- Document reports
- Other reports
- Account schedules
- Analysis views
- Understanding dimensions
- Setting up new dimensions
- Categorizing dimensions
- Accessing dimensions
- Creating an analysis view
- Updating analysis views
- Using analysis views
- Analysis by Dimensions
- Analysis views as a source for account schedules
- Extracting data
- Sending data to Microsoft Office applications
- Sending data to Microsoft Word
- Sending data to Microsoft Excel
- Extracting data through web services
- Other ways to extract Dynamics NAV data
- Understanding report development
- Reports anatomy
- Defining the dataset
- Designing the visual layout
- Rules for flattening data
- Report design guidelines
- Summary
- Chapter 11: Debugging
- The art of debugging
- Debugging in Dynamics NAV 2013
- Starting the debugger
- Break Rules
- Placing breakpoints
- From the Object Designer
- In the current statement of the debugger
- Conditional breakpoint
- The debugger breakpoint list
- Line-by-line execution
- The Step Into option
- The Step Over option
- The Step Out option
- The Continue option
- The Call Stack FactBox
- Watch variables
- Adding variables from the Debugger Variables List window
- Adding variables from the code viewer
- Code Coverage
- Importing the Code Coverage objects
- How to use the Code Coverage feature
- When to use the Code Coverage feature
- Summary
- Chapter 12: The Query Object
- What is a query
- Query Designer
- Defining our first query
- Adding complexity to the query
- The DataItemLinkType property
- Where to use queries
- C/AL code
- Charts
- Web services
- External applications
- Excel and PowerPivot
- Query performance
- Summary
- Chapter 13: Applications Included in Dynamics NAV
- Jet Reports Express
- Downloading Jet Reports Express
- Installing Jet Reports Express
- Installing Jet Reports Express on client machines
- Installing Jet Reports Express on Dynamics NAV 2013
- Configuring Jet Reports Express
- Creating your first Jet Reports Express report
- Adding filters
- Analyzing the data
- Using Jet Reports to retrieve data
- Zetadocs Express
- Installing the Zetadocs client
- Adding Zetadocs Sharepoint Extensions
- Importing NAV objects into Microsoft Dynamics NAV
- Configuring Zetadocs in Dynamics NAV
- Installing the Zetadocs help files
- Summary
Laura Nicolàs Lorente
Cristina Nicolàs Lorente
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Dynamics NAV was first eveloped by a Danish firm and the program was called Navision A/S.
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Dynamics NAV was first developed by a Danish firm and the program was called Navision A/S.
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This book does not only cover typical topics when implementing the new version of an ERP system; topics that are not found in any previous documentation of Dynamics NAV, such as the implementation process at the customer side, or implementing functional changes on existing Dynamics NAV implementations are included in here. This approach makes this book different.
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This book is step-by-step guide to implementing Dynamics NAV from start to finish.
If you are new to Dynamics NAV or have been implementing it for a while, the book will lead you from start to finish, teaching you how to deploy valuable implementations. This book is also for Dynamics NAV implementation consultants, project managers, and developers that want to get a deep view of what Dynamics NAV 2013 can offer, as well as NAV developers that want to learn more about the whole application. IT managers considering the implementation of Dynamics NAV 2013 in their organizations will fully understand what to expect and how to accomplish it upon reading this book.
