Jen, I’m sure Todd certainly appreciates the sudden influx of emails he’s getting. Good job. [:D]
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Originally posted by Muzzy Dawg
Jen, I’m sure Todd certainly appreciates the sudden influx of emails he’s getting. Good job. [:D]
[;)] I attended the 4.0 webinar the other day, and he said to send him an e-mail to get access to the beta. So I’m sure he’s getting bombarded. I suppose they did it this way to track who has the beta version so that they can contact them for feedback…
I have seen version 4.0 yesterday. My first thought was it would be better if there was an option to choose the main menu the old one or the new one. [8)] Rest,got to see a lot…
There is no end-user option, but the old main menu mechanism still works as before by returning a form ID in trigger 30 of Code Unit 1. If the form ID is non-zero this form will be used as the main menu, and not the Navigation Pane.
Robert, Looking at the new menu structure in version 4 it is apparent to me that some of our current customers will not like it and want to retain some of the very simple main menus we provide to some of their users. Your posting above suggests we can still use the old Main Menu functionality but it is not obvious to me how the code in trigger 30 of codeunit 1 (“Company Open” function in “Application Management” codeunit) allows this. Could you please expand your advice? Also, The User Setup table does not seem to have a Main Menu field any more. Thanks, Chris.
Robert, The old menu ID can be passed only if the old menus are available. Attain 4 does not have any old menu’s . Its a lot of customisation. Create old forms, give an option to the user to look at the menu.This can be setup in the user setup. The new menu also does not have shortcuts [V] Also ending up with lot of windows open.
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Also ending up with lot of windows open.
No. You don’t end up with a lot of windows opened. If there’s an instance of a form opened it will be reused and not as today another copy opened. That’s a good thing compared with today.
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Also ending up with lot of windows open.
No. You don’t end up with a lot of windows opened. If there’s an instance of a form opened it will be reused and not as today another copy opened. That’s a good thing compared with today.
I can’t say I agree with that, Lars. It is sometimes very useful to have 2 instances of the same form opened on different records (for example, Customers 1000 and 2000 side by side). That makes it very easy to spot problems and look at differences. Does version 4.00 limit each Form to be opened only once?
No. You can choose to open in a new window also
OK. So it means there is an option to choose this application behaviour, correct?
This may seem small and unimportant but, have there been any improvements to the report writer? Such as shading (what a concept), or better wizzards or something for end users to make reports easier? Can anyone share a couple of choice screen shots for us little people that don’t have access to partnersource? Thanks.
The big change for end users when it comes to report writing is the Business Analytics. This is for making reporting easier for end users and not having to spend consulting hours for every new report that’s needed. At least this is the goal for that product. If it will be the result remains to see.
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OK. So it means there is an option to choose this application behaviour, correct?
You Right Click and choose “Open in new window” on an menu item
Thanks, Lars. That’s pretty interesting, to say the very least. IE-style Really looking forward to try out the new version.
Chris, Lakshmi You’re right that v4 is aiming towards the use of the new menu suite, and that you must get back the old functionality manualy - there is nothing authomatic to do that other than the old CompanyOpen trigger is still available and C/SIDE will use it in the same way to get a form ID. By the way, two new triggers are now available for CU1 - real CompanyOpen and CompanyClose. These actually do get called on these two events - the old CompanyOpen actually had nothing really to do with CompanyOpen, but got called when the main menu form was opened. Bad naming here of the original trigger. Regarding the window reuse thing Lars is right. You use Click to cycle through all matching windows for that menu item, Ctrl+Click to open a new window for the menu item, and Shift+Click to toggle between two windows for the menu item (e.g. between two different Customers). You can reverse the Click and Ctrl-Click behaviour if you prefer to awlays open new windows by default, as with the old menu system. Lakshmi, I don’t understand your comments about the shortcuts - as far as I know there are no shortcuts in the old main menu - but there are now in the new one. Users create their own, or can place a current record of an open form into their shortcuts easily (like Send to Desktop, there is now a Send to Shortcuts). The Beta2 did not have this latter functionality, only the ability to create from scratch.
The Navigation Pane Options also has a setting called ‘swop and open new actions’. If this is checked, then you can open a form as many times as you want.
release date : 3rd week of october
Is there an example of the Bigtext variable within the 4.00 beta version?[?]
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With Navision 4.00 released in Beta 2 there not much time until it will hit the streets! As I wrote last year after the MBS Tech 2003 show in Minneapolis, then there are several new features: - XMLPorts - Allowing you easily to define XML import/exports. - New menu in Office XP style (officially called Microsoft Office 2003 Wonder Bar style). But now I finally had a chance to check it out on my own. And it’s looking really good! I’m excited and can’t wait… The other new features are: - BIGTEXT - A new variable with a max. lenght of 2GB!! Finally we can create real text/comment fields directly in Navision… Super - I’ve just waited 15 years for this! Only down on this is that you must save it in the database as a BLOB field and convert it to and from BigText on the fly. - Intercompany Postings - You can send documents to partner companies in the same or several different Navision databases. - Business Analytics Basic and Advanced - You can analyze different areas within Navision and using external tools such as Excel, a report writer and a web interface with the possiblity for simple data mining. - Analysis Reports - You can use analysis reports to create customized reports based on records of your posted transactions, for example, sales, purchases, transfers and inventory adjustments. In a customizable report, the source data, which is derived from the item ledger (with associated value entries), can be combined, compared and presented in meaningful user-defined ways. In this sense, the analysis report is very similar to a PivotTable report in Microsoft Excel and the dimemsion analysis on the General Ledger side. - Inventory Analysis by Dimensions - The existing Advanced Dimensions feature has been extended into Inventory area by providing the possibility to set up and use inventory analysis views. For each analysis view, you can specify up to three dimensions, as well as specify criteria for items, dates and locations. - Item Budgets - With this facility, companies have the possibility to prepare and record a sales budget that may serve as an input to decision-makers in other operational areas, i.e. purchase and logistics, about future expected demand and form basis for business discussions with the customers. Once budgets are made, they can be used to track the actual sales performance by means of calculating the variance. The possibility to move budgeted figures between the system and Excel provides additional flexibility to the budgeting process. - New consolidation tool. Has been rewritten with better support of currency translations. - Information Pane on the Sales Document Forms - They are violating all their previous design guidelines - but it makes the forms much better to use for the users. Direct access to relevant customer and item information such as ship-to’s, contacts, sales history, item availablity, prices and discounts and substitutions. - Manual Planning - This feature is a simple supply planning tool that functions as a manual MRP system, where the user makes planning decisions order-by-order based on visibility and manual planning functions. The Order Planning feature uses parts of the existing planning engine to find and analyze new demand but it does not consider planning parameters defined for the items and is therefore much more transparent than the automatic system. - Graphical Scheduling This feature provides a graphical representation of production orders and capacity loading in an integrated Gantt component and allows a user to reschedule operations by drag and drop in a graphical interface and thus update the related production order data. - BizTalk 2004 integration - The BizTalk interface has been rewritten to support Microsoft BizTalk 2004. The interface is now using the new XMLPorts. And than finally - and as always - there are a large number of fixed errors… Microsoft Business Solutions-Navision 4.00 is expected to be release in 3rd. quarter 2004. And I’m looking forward to this!
Originally posted by Admin - 2004 May 06 : 10:52:24
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There is nothing to ‘see’ of BigText. There is no UI that supports the editing of a BigText; it is made primarily for use with the XMLPorts and has some basic functions including streaming but is not a ‘Memo’ type. More info, for those interested, on the new Navigation Pane, Outlook style menu UI: - Is a replacement for the current Main Menu, but the Main Menu can still be used if required. The layout is a tree control for the menu items/groups and menu buttons for each menu. These sections can be sized; the pane width can be sized and the entire pane can be hidden. When shown is displayed alongside open windows, even when maximized. - The menu content itself is stored in a new appliction object: MenuSuite. These are rather different from all other objects in that the IDs are contolled by C/SIDE and there is only a limited number of objects that can be created. - The MenuSuite objects represents ‘levels’ of the menu system: MBS, Partner, Region, Country, Add-on 1-10, Company and User. The levels are merged by C/SIDE to produce a final menu, which is then customisable by the user. They are also filtered by license and object permissions the current user has, removing items he does not have permission to run. - An ‘administrator’ can be given permissions to modify menus at the ‘Company’ object level for his users, and to assign different menus to different users. - Users can Show/Hide menu items/groups or entire menus, and can make their own Shortcuts menus. They can copy items from other menus or links from open forms. They can also store external URLs to documents/web sites/progams. - The menu designer is done in-place and is driven mainly by right-click menus/keyboard. Rather different from the classic designers.
Originally posted by robertc - 2004 May 13 : 07:18:22