NAV 2013

I don't know how I managed to miss this with all the "What's New in NAV 2015" and "What's New in NAV 2013" workshops I was preparing over the last few years, but I did.

Recently, a colleague pointed me to this MSDN article on NAV: "How to: Add Translated Strings for Conflicting Text Encoding Formats". Once I have read midway into the artice, I realised - this feature is so much more than what the title says! What it really should say, is ....

If you have been working with NAV for quite some time, you've definitely been in this situation: you have just received a NAV DB backup from a customer or colleague, restored on your local machine, tried to login, and... oops, the user does not exist or is invalid. Well, actually native NAV backups would let you add a user before you closed the client after backup restore (how many of you closed it and had to restart the process all over again? :)).

Since autumn 2012, I have been travelling quite a lot to hold workshops on NAV 2013 (a.k.a. NAV 7). The material for the workshop was gathered all around the place - Microsoft's presentations, Partner Source content, community blogs and in-house expertise. But, no matter how many things you read, try yourself or learn, there's always something new to be discovered out there. After each of the sessions, I was left with at least a half-page of questions on NAV 2013 that I couldn't answer right away. So, every time, I was delving back into the source material to dig up the answers.