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How to Install Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2018 Please visit the below link and download the Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2018: https://community.dynamics.com/nav/b/mohanasdynamicsnavblog/archive/2017/12/01/download-microsoft-dynamics-nav-2018 Before you start installation, I would request you to go through the System Requirements recommended by Microsoft. Keeping all the required configuration ready before installing Dynamics NAV is a good practice as it ensures that all feature of the product will be available in working condition. Please click the below link to check Dynamics NAV 2018 system requirements: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics-nav/system-requirements-for-microsoft-dynamics-nav I believe you have prepared your system with pre-requisite component reading above link webpage. Let’s start with our installation process. Please follow the below steps: 1. Navigate to the downloaded W1DVD folder and select the setup.exe file, right click the sel...
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Developer’s Overview of Dynamics NAV As a developer we look into the platform and try to dig out the fact, how flexible it is to support the customization in order to fulfill the client requirement. Picking up Dynamics NAV as an ERP business solution we make ourselves lucky because Dynamics NAV consists of several thousand potentially customizable program objects along with the Integrated Development Environment (the C/SIDE development tools), which gives us potential to modify those objects and create new ones. The Dynamics NAV is an object-based system consist of the seven different object types. NAV does not support all of the features of an object-oriented system as full-featured object-oriented system allows us to define and create new object types, whereas NAV only allows us to create and modify instances of the seven pre-defined object types. Dynamics NAV objects types: Table: Tables are the most important objects types among other objects of NAV, table serv...

Introduction to Dynamics NAV

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Introduction to Dynamics NAV Before explaining about Dynamics NAV, allow me to explain what is an ERP. ERP stands for Enterprise Resource Planning . An ERP system integrates various functional areas including manufacturing, supply chain management, accounting, customer relationships management, service operations, human and other resource management and others. Integrating various application together, ERP system provides login once, use across internal and external many areas with strong information processing tool-set . Microsoft Dynamics NAV is an ERP , it integrates set of business applications together designed to service a wide variety of business operations. Dynamics NAV is modular in design, which simplifies implementation, upgrading, modification, integration with third-party products and expansion for different types of clients. All the modules in the system share a common database and wherever applicable, common data. Microsoft Dynamics NAV gives the...
Dynamics NAV Version’s Version Release Initial Product Launch Company founded in Denmark(1984) 1984 First version of proto-Navision released, "PC Plus" for DOS(1985) 1985 Navigator 1.x Navigator 1.00 1987 Navigator 2.00 1988 Navigator 3.00 1989 Navision Financials 1.x - Navision Financials Released for Windows 95 Navision Financials 1.00 1995 Navision Financials 1.00A 1995 Navision Financials 1.00B 1995 Navision Financials 1.10 1995 Navision Financials 1.10A 1995 Navision Financials 1.20 1996 Navision Financials 1.30 1997 Navision Financials 2.x Navision Financials 2.00 2000 Navision Financials 2.00A ...
How C/AL Evolved During the first introduction with the Dynamics NAV as a developer one of the first question would come in your mind is "Which programming language does it support?" and once you hear the answer "C/AL", the next question will follow up is " What other programming language is it similar to? " The best response is "Pascal". Pascal was a preferred language while the three founders were pursuing their classes. Some of the strengths of Pascal as a tool in an educational environment also attracted the founders to make it a base in order to create a good model for Navision's business applications development. Michael Nielsen of Microsoft, developed the original C/AL compiler and IDE. Speaking about C/AL and C/SIDE, he told that the design criteria were to provide an environment that could be used without: Dealing with memory and other resource handling Thinking about exception handling and state Thinking about ...
History of Dynamics Navision Project computer software business was founded by three college friends Jesper Balser, Torben Wind, and Peter Bang in 1984. They were student of Denmark Technical University (DTU). Business was Personal Computing & Consulting (PC & C) and its first product was called PC Plus . PC Plus was released in 1985, its functional design was inspired by the combination of a manual ledger journal, an Epson FX 80 printer, and a Canon calculator. PC Plus was PC DOS-based, a single-user system. PC Plus design features included: Use of documents and calculators Online help Good exception handling Required Minimal computer resources  The PC Plus product was marketed in Denmark and Norway through dealers. PC & C released a new product in 1987, the multiuser Navigator and called Navision and it included: Client/Server technology Relational database Transaction-based processing Version management High-speed OLAP capabilit...