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Monitor Field Change in Business Central

Ashwini Tripathi

Field Monitoring is one of great help for superusers in Business Central. You can now configure a list of fields that contain high-risk and business-critical data that you want to be notified about when they are changed.

Changes to high-risk settings in Business Central can be tracked using the Change Log functionality. But sometime only tracking changes is not sufficient and you expect more like you should be notified of changes in fields that contain high-risk and business-critical data, such as bank account numbers, company name, and addresses.

Now setting a list of fields that contain high-risk and business-critical data is possible and you can be notified about when they are changed.

To start with this feature, Look for Assist Setup, I am using BC18 demo database for below steps.

Although it is not necessary to follow Assist Setup, you can do setup from individual pages. But this will ensure you don’t miss any steps.

Click on Next to start with setup. And follow the steps in leading wizard pages.

If you wish to use Data Classification and already have performed data classification you can enable or continue with individual fields using Monitored Fields Worksheet, in upcoming Wizard pages.

It is necessary to have the Sending and user e-mail setup is completed. Here you can select the email ids as required.

You need to add Fields for monitoring enable and click finish, or you can open the Page later and configure. This will Start the Monitoring and Notification service.

In Next step or you can open this page Monitored Fields Worksheet from Tell Me.

Add your table & fields that you wish to Monitor.

If notify is enabled you will receive the mail, else you can view in Monitored Field Log page. You can use Field Monitoring Setup Page from Action bar, or you can separately open this page from Tell Me.

You need to Start the Field Monitoring Setup, if not already done. If you have used Assist setup it will be Started, in case you are doing Manually from each Page, you will need to visit this Page, Setup your Emails and Start the Service.

Before we Start with Testing, it is strongly recommended you Log Off and Login again to Business Central. As logging starts and ends on Login & Logout of user.

Open the Customer Page and make changes to Name, as above we have setup to log Name field of Customer.

If your all setup is OK you should Receive a mail as below.

Some Pages helpful for Field Monitored Service are:

You can Monitor the Mails Status from your Role Centre Cues:

What else you can do for monitoring your data and notifications:

  • If there is a problem sending the email, you can check the detailed information on Email Outbox page.
  • You can view the mail sending record on Sent Emails page.
  • You can view the log of Field Monitoring Setup and Monitoring Fields on Monitored Field Log Entries page.

Hope you enjoyed the information. Will come with more similar information in my next posts. Till then keep exploring, learning and sharing your knowledge with others.

Remain safe, take care of your loved ones, put your mask, maintain safe distance and don’t forget to get vaccinated.

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Database Replication – Part V

Ashwini Tripathi

This post is in continuation to my earlier post. Please check if you missed.

Database Replication – Part I

Database Replication – Part II

Database Replication – Part III

Database Replication – Part IV

As committed in this post we will continue to cover practical approach, Next step from last post.

We will create a subscription using SQL Server Management Studio

To create the subscription

  • Connect to the Publisher in SQL Server Management Studio, expand the server node, and then expand the Replication folder.
  • In the Local Publications folder, right-click the Nav2018ItemTrans publication, and then click New Subscriptions.

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The New Subscription Wizard launches.

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  • On the Publication page, select Nav2018ItemTrans, and then click Next.

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  • On the Distribution Agent Location page, select Run all agents at the Distributor, and then click Next.

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  • On the Subscribers page, if the name of the Subscriber instance is not displayed, click Add Subscriber, click Add SQL Server Subscriber, enter the Subscriber instance name in the Connect to Server dialog box, and then click Connect.
  • On the Subscribers page, select the instance name of the Subscriber server, and select under Subscription Database.
  • On the New Database dialog box/Select from Drop Down List, enter Nav2018ReplDatabase in the Database name box, click OK, and then click Next.

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  • In the Distribution Agent Security dialog box, click the ellipsis (…) button, enter <Machine_Name>\repl_distribution in the Process account box, enter the password for this account, click OK.

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  • Click Next.

 

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  • Click Finish to accept the default values on the remaining pages and complete the wizard.

Setting database permissions at the Subscriber

  • Connect to the Subscriber in SQL Server Management Studio, expand Databases, Nav2018ReplDatabase, and Security, right-click Users, and then select New User.
  • On the General page, in the User type list, select Windows user.
  • Select the User name box and click the ellipsis (…) button, in the Enter the object name to select box type <Machine_Name>\repl_distribution, click Check Names, and then click OK.

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  • On the Membership page, in Database role membership area, select db_owner, and then click OK to create the user.

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When setting up SQL Server replication you might see an error message from the Transactional Replication Log Reader Agent which reads like the following.

Error messages:

  • The process could not execute ‘sp_replcmds’ on ”. (Source: MSSQL_REPL, Error number: MSSQL_REPL20011) Get help: http://help/MSSQL_REPL20011
  • Cannot execute as the database principal because the principal “dbo” does not exist, this type of principal cannot be impersonated, or you do not have permission. (Source: MSSQLServer, Error number: 15517) Get help: http://help/15517
  • The process could not execute ‘sp_replcmds’ on ”. (Source: MSSQL_REPL, Error number: MSSQL_REPL22037) Get help: http://help/MSSQL_REPL22037

Often this error message can come from the database not having a valid owner, or the SQL Server is not being able to correctly identify the owner of the database.

Often this is easiest to fix by changing the database owner by using the sp_changedbowner system stored procedure as shown below. The sa account is a reliable account to use to change the ownership of the database to.

USE PublishedDatabase

GO

EXEC sp_changedbowner ‘sa’

GO

Once the database ownership has been changed the log reader will probably start working right away. If it doesn’t quickly restarting the log reader should resolve the problem.

While this does require changes to the production database, there is no outage required to make these changes.

To view the synchronization status of the subscription

  • Connect to the Publisher in SQL Server Management Studio, expand the server node, and then expand the Replication folder.
  • In the Local Publications folder, expand the Nav2018ItemTrans publication, right-click the subscription in the Nav2018ReplDatabase database, and then click View Synchronization Status.

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The current synchronization status of the subscription is displayed.

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  • If the subscription is not visible under Nav2018ItemTrans, press F5 to refresh the list.

Validating the Subscription and Measuring Latency

We will use tracer tokens to verify that changes are being replicated to the Subscriber and to determine latency, the time it takes for a change made at the Publisher to appear to the Subscriber.

To insert a tracer token and view information on the token

  • Connect to the Publisher in SQL Server Management Studio, expand the server node, right-click the Replication folder, and then click Launch Replication Monitor.
  • Replication Monitor launches.
  • Expand a Publisher group in the left pane, expand the Publisher instance, and then click the Nav2018ItemTrans publication.
  • Click the Tracer Tokens tab.
  • Click Insert Tracer.
  • View elapsed time for the tracer token in the following columns: Publisher to Distributor, Distributor to Subscriber, Total Latency. A value of Pending indicates that the token has not reached a given point.

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This way we are done with Database Replication Setup.

Will come up with more topic soon.

 

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Database Replication – Part IV

Ashwini Tripathi

This post is in continuation to my earlier post. Please check if you missed.

Database Replication – Part I

Database Replication – Part II

Database Replication – Part III

As committed in this post we will continue to cover practical approach, Next step from last post.

Publishing Data Using Transactional Replication

We will create a transactional publication using SQL Server Management Studio to publish a filtered subset of the Item table in the Nav 2018 sample database. We will also add the SQL Server login used by the Distribution Agent to the publication access list (PAL).

To create a publication and define articles

Connect to the Publisher in SQL Server Management Studio, and then expand the server node.

Expand the Replication folder, right-click the Local Publications folder, and click New Publication.

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The Publication Configuration Wizard launches.

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On the Publication Database page, select Nav 2018 database, and then click Next.

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On the Publication Type page, select Transactional publication, and then click Next.

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On the Articles page, expand the Tables node, select the check box for table CRONOUS International Ltd_$Item (dbo). Click Next.

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On the Filter Table Rows page, click Add.

In the Add Filter dialog box, click the Replenishment System column, click the right arrow to add the column to the Filter statement WHERE clause of the filter query, and modify the WHERE clause as follows:

WHERE [Replenishment System] = 1

Click OK,

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Click Next.

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Select the Create a snapshot immediately and keep the snapshot available to initialize subscriptions check box, and click Next.

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On the Agent Security page, clear Use the security settings from the Snapshot Agent check box.

Click Security Settings for the Snapshot Agent, enter <Machine_Name>\repl_snapshot in the Process account box, supply the password for this account, and then click OK.

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Repeat the previous step to set repl_logreader as the process account for the Log Reader Agent

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Click Finish.

On the Complete the Wizard page, type Nav2018ItemTrans in the Publication name box, and click Finish.

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After the publication is created, click Close to complete the wizard.

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To view the status of snapshot generation

  • Connect to the Publisher in SQL Server Management Studio, expand the server node, and then expand the Replication folder.

In the Local Publications folder, right-click Nav2018ItemTrans, and then click View Snapshot Agent Status.

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The current status of the Snapshot Agent job for the publication is displayed. Verify that the snapshot job has succeeded.

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To add the Distribution Agent login to the PAL

  • Connect to the Publisher in SQL Server Management Studio, expand the server node, and then expand the Replication folder.
  • In the Local Publications folder, right-click Nav2018ItemTrans, and then click Properties.
  • The Publication Properties dialog box is displayed.
  • Select the Publication Access List page, and click Add.

In the Add Publication Access dialog box, select <Machine_Name>\repl_distribution and click OK. Click OK.

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We will discuss Next step in our upcoming post.

 

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New Changes or features for Application Users in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2017

Ashwini Tripathi

Although it is too early to discuss on features and capabilities which we are going to get in our new release, we should wait for exact information post release of same.

Here are few extracts from available documents pre-release of the product.

You will find most of the features similar to which we have discussed in our earlier posts for Madeira Preview Project.

 

Incoming documents

New modification to the list of incoming documents. Now it will have filtered view, a new field Processed is added, and now by default filter is applied to show only unprocessed incoming documents in the list.

However you can choose to still view all incoming documents in the list using the show Show All action.

When documents are posted, the processed flag is set to Yes, such that incoming documents that have been processed into posted documents are filtered out.

Capability is added to manually switch the Processed flag.

Now OCR supports for document extracting line details, when we send PDF or image files on incoming documents to Lexmark ICS, the 3rd-party provider of OCR services.

You can now create purchase invoices with multi-line details.

Now you can easily correct OCR errors before receiving the document and at the same time configure the service to avoid the known errors in future.

You can use the new Lexmark ICS online experience to visually train and validate the OCR processing of PDF and image files for incoming documents, such as vendor invoices.

From each incoming document record, you can now link directly to the online extracted document to validate the OCR result and train the service with your corrections.

A new Role Center Cue will give users capability to monitor incoming documents that await your OCR validation.

 

 

Inventory Items

Item attributes similar to one we saw in Madeira.

Capability to add attributes to your inventory items will make it easy for you to find the right product that your customer wants by filtering on attributes.

You can define your own attribute types, such as Base Material, Colour, Size, or other product dimensions, and attach to your items as a supplement to the built-in item attribute types and values.

When you access your items on documents or list, you can view and filter on the attribute values to limit the list of items.

By using Categorize items you can create a hierarchy of item categories and assign item attributes to each item category.

When you add items to a category, they will inherit the default attributes on the category.

This will ensures to have a common set of attributes on related items, will speed up the assignment of attributes to similar items, and allow filtering and navigating related items easily based on the category.

 

 

Smarter sales and purchase documents

Now you can cancel posted sales and purchase credit memos in the same way like you can do for posted sales and purchase invoices.

After performing this action you will find the credit memo is unapplied from the invoice and creates a new invoice that is applied to the credit memo.

This action will bring you to the earlier position where you created the credit memo. (Like Undo)

Package Tracking No. and Shipping Agent Code on sales invoices Posted sales invoices now show the package tracking number and the shipping agent code by default.

 

Account Categories in the Chart of Accounts

A new capability is added as account categories and sub categories.

Now you can group G/L Accounts to adjust your need for financial reporting.

For each G/L account, now you can specify the account category so that when ledger entries are posted to these accounts they are categorized as per your category.

For each account category, you can now choose from different sub-categories, even you can also create new sub-categories as per your need.

For example, for the G/L account category Expense, you can define as many sub-categories as you need so that you can differentiate between Expenses on different sources.

 

 

Payment reconciliation

The Payment Reconciliation journal now will show you total outstanding transactions and outstanding payments.

From there itself you can now look up the list of documents that have not been applied or used in the reconciliation process.

You can now also choose to include outstanding payments and outstanding transactions information in the Payment Reconciliation report.

 

Jobs

Project Manager Role Center

A new project manager field is added to the Job Card in order to give users clear sense of job ownership.

A new list My Jobs list is added on the Project Manager Role Center which will display jobs with the status of Order by default based on the new project manager field as discussed above.

If a person is assigned as the project manager to 5 jobs and those jobs have the On Order status, those 5 jobs will default on the My Jobs list on the Project Manager Role Center.

A new cue is added to the Project Manager Role Center to Create Job Sales Invoice, so now users will have quick access to this functionality.

On the Project Manager Role Center a new drop down list for Job Reports has been added to the Actions ribbon.

Job cost

A new fact box will be available to the right side of the Job Card to display the job’s cost information.

Now the term Contract is renamed as Billable throughout the Jobs module.

On the Job Card the Allow Schedule/Billable lines and Apply Usage Link options are marked by default for new jobs.

A new report called Job Quote is available so user can send a quote to a customer. This report is available as Word Template so it can be modified using Word and emailed to the contact on the job.

 

Fixed Assets

Now setting up fixed assets is simpler. A standard setup is provided, but allows you to modify it at anytime you want.

You can register fixed asset as cards with complete information, accounting details, and reporting classification.

You can also register purchases of fixed assets through special fixed asset G/L journals where you can also dispose of fixed assets. The right accounting entries are created automatically.

 

Simplified Setup for using Dynamics CRM from inside Dynamics NAV

As you are familiar Dynamics NAV includes opportunity management and basic customer relationship management.

You can easily set up a connection with Dynamics CRM to have more benefit from the strong capabilities that Dynamics CRM offers, such as marketing and customer service capabilities.

A new assisted setup guide to the Business Manager home page will be available that will guide you through the setup process. Once you are through with this setup, you’ll have a seamless coupling of Dynamics CRM records with Dynamics NAV records.

 

 

Simplified opportunity management and CRM functionality

You will find Dynamics NAV CRM module has been simplified and improved in a number of ways:

  1. At place of CRM wizard pages now you will have card pages, so that they can now also run in the Web client with improved user experience.
  2. Worksheet pages also been replaced by list pages so now you can also use the pages in browsers.
  3. The Contact card has been simplified by marking a number of controls as Additional, so that the page default looks simpler.
  4. Mail merge have been replaced with Word reporting. Also, new Word reporting capabilities added to generate email body content based on the related report and the selected report layout.
  5. A new Sales & Relationship Manager Role Center has been added

New wizard has been created that helps users set up email logging (default public folders, rules, and job queue setup).

 

Smart notifications give you advice and recommendations

Similar to one which we discussed in our earlier post for Madeira.

 

Extensions

Microsoft provides the following extensions:

  1. Envestnet Yodlee Bank Feeds
  2. PayPal Payments Standard
  3. QuickBooks Data Migration
  4. Sales and Inventory Forecast

Similar to Madeira few of them we have discussed in our earlier posts, rest will discuss in our upcoming posts.

 

Office 365

If your organization uses Office 365, Dynamics NAV 2017 includes an add-in so you can invoice your customers based on entries in your Outlook calendar.

From the Contacts List in Dynamics NAV, you can manually synchronize your Dynamics NAV contacts to Office 365 People.

The contacts from Office 365 will sync back to Dynamics NAV as well.

There is a filter that can be applied to the synchronization process so users will only need to sync the contacts they use most often. This same filter is used during the automatic background sync as well. This synchronization process also works with Microsoft Outlook on the desktop.

We will discuss in more details in our upcoming posts. This feature is too available in Madeira.

 

 

 

US financial reports

In the US version of Dynamics 2017, added new four financial reports to the Business Manager and Accountant Role Centers:

  1. Balance Sheet
  2. Income Statement
  3. Cash Flow Statement, and
  4. Retained Earnings Statement

These reports use G/L account categories and sub-categories discussed above to group financial data.

 

Source:- https://mbs.microsoft.com/Files/partner/NAV/Readiness_Training/ReadinessTrainingNews/WhatsNewDynamicsNAV2017LimitedBeta.pdf

I will come up with more details in my upcoming posts.

 

 

 

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How to attach additional 6 Shortcut Dimensions to Dimension Set when copy data to Journal from Excel

Ashwini Tripathi

 

In my previous post I explained how we can copy data to-and-fro between Excel and Navision. Also we saw the limitation of additional 6 Shortcut Dimensions neither can be exported nor imported back.

Today we will see solution to this limitation, as it is required from several customers and we keep getting request for same. The same reader for whom I have posted my previous post have requested similar need.

If you missed my previous post you can find here : Copying data to-and-fro between Excel & Navision

Let us see how we can get this part working, yes it will require a small customization to get this working. Below I explain the steps we require to achieve this.

My example refers to Table 81 & Page 39. You can do same with other Journals too.

We will Add Custom Fields for these additional 6 Shortcut Dimensions.

 

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Add the Fields and write the above code to OnValidate trigger and set the Property accordingly for all of the 6 Shortcut Dimension Fields.

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Similarly add a piece of code to OnInsert trigger of the Table.

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Add our newly created Fields to Page too.

Now Let us check if it works as expected.

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Perform the operation as in previous post, this time add the newly created fields for Dimensions as shown in above screen.

If you missed my previous post you can find here : Copying data to-and-fro between Excel & Navision

Export and Import back by adding value to these additional Dimensions 1 &2 is Global 3-6 is my additional Shortcut Dimensions, 7-8 I have not included as not setup in my database.

After importing back check the Dimensions and you will find due to above customization my all the Shortcut Dimensions are attached to Dimension Set Entry.
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Yes we are done.

I will come up with more information in my upcoming posts. Till then keep exploring and Learning.

 

 

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Copying data to-and-fro between Excel & Navision

Ashwini Tripathi

ExcelToNavJnl

One of my reader has requested to show him how to export data from Nav Journal to Excel, perform correction and import back to Navision.

So let us see how can we perform this and what are the limitations.

Open the Journal in Navision.

Arrange and show all the Fields that you want to export to Excel on the page.

Fill some sample data. Say single line of Journal, way usually you do.

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Now Send to Excel using options shown in below screen.

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Data will get Exported to Excel.

Have you noticed something, with the data that got exported yo Excel?

Your 2 Additional Shortcut dimension was not Exported to Excel. Customer Group Code & Area Code, why?

Since these are not the actual fields in the table and it is calculated on Page level, so you will only be able to export Dim-1 & Dim-2 your Global Dimensions which is available as Field in the Table.

Make sure you enter Dimension Values in Capitals in Excel Columns.

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Now perform required changes to the Journal data.

Insert New Lines, Delete existing Lines or Edit existing Lines.

Make sure you don’t keep more than 30000 to 40000 lines, until this it works fine if more than this either performance is too slow or Navision gets hang while you copy back your data to Navision. Upto 40000 works fine have tested several time. Depending upon your system performance you can decide how much data will be ok for you.

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As we have seen above my 2 additional Dimensions is missing from the exported data. We need to match the columns what we have in our Excel and sequence. So we will hide/remove the additional columns from the Journal to match the sequence from Excel columns before we copy back our data from Excel to Navision.

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Select the Rows in excel containing you data excluding header columns and copy.

Return to your Journal and Paste as shown in above screen.

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Your modified data is imported back to the Journal in Navision.

Now perform the Journal action way you do normally.

 

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App for Power BI REST APIs for Streaming Data

Ashwini Tripathi

In this post we will see how to create app to use the Power BI REST APIs for Streaming Data.

Full documentation: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/documentation/powerbi-service-real-time-streaming/

To run this app follow the steps discussed in my previous post: [Real-Time Dashboard Tile & Streaming Dataset– in Power BI]

Summary as below:

  1. Go to app.powerbi.com
  2. Go to streaming data management page by via new dashboard > Add tile > Custom Streaming Data > manage data
  3. Click “Add streaming dataset”
  4. Select API, then Next, and give your streaming dataset a name
  5. Add a field with name “Customer ID”, type Number
  6. Add a field with name “Customer Name”, type Text
  7. Add a field with name “Sales Value”, type Number
  8. Click “Create”
  9. Copy the “push URL” and paste it as the value of “realTimePushURL” in below app

We will start with new project in Visual Studio.

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Create a new Visual C# Console Application.

Open the Program.cs File and write a code as shown below.

This app Uses the WebRequest sample code as documented here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/debx8sh9(v=vs.110).aspx

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For your easy here is the code of Program.cs below:

 

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Linq;

using System.Text;

using System.Threading.Tasks;

using System.Net;

using System.IO;

 

namespace RealTimeStreaming

{

class Program

{

// Paste your own push URL below as obtained from while creating Streaming Dataset and saved in step 9 above

private static string realTimePushURL = “https://api.powerbi.com/beta/4e7ca966-123e-4ce7-9833-3e858854b98f/datasets/7d154cd7-11e0-4d5e-9569-12fa3f82f224/rows?key=mD1nkJOf426PjPPaEQsW9xEg%2FN1EENQ2hRZvXIpHr%2BTXNk3XQpKsR2Jbe5CATiMoLmxjlzSp%2FIMlbe9HL8G4xQ%3D%3D&#8221;;

static void Main(string[] args)

{

while (true) { //Set Infinite Loop

try

{

// Declare values that we will be sending

Random r = new Random();

int currentValue = r.Next(0, 100);

String Name = “Dummy Name”;

// Send POST request to the push URL

WebRequest request = WebRequest.Create(realTimePushURL);

request.Method = “POST”;

 

//Here you will retrieve the data from the source and format as per the request.

//In this example we are sending Random Value generated by above code for testing purpose.

string postData = String.Format(“[{{ \”Customer ID\”: {0}, \”Sales Value\”:{1} }}]”, currentValue,currentValue);

Console.WriteLine(String.Format(“Making POST request with data: {0}”, postData));

 

// Prepare request for sending

byte[] byteArray = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(postData);

request.ContentLength = byteArray.Length;

// Get the request stream.

Stream dataStream = request.GetRequestStream();

// Write the data to the request stream.

dataStream.Write(byteArray, 0, byteArray.Length);

// Close the Stream object.

dataStream.Close();

// Get the response.

WebResponse response = request.GetResponse();

// Display the status.

Console.WriteLine(String.Format(“Service response: {0}”, ((HttpWebResponse)response).StatusCode));

// Get the stream containing content returned by the server.

dataStream = response.GetResponseStream();

// Open the stream using a StreamReader for easy access.

StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(dataStream);

// Read the content.

string responseFromServer = reader.ReadToEnd();

// Display the content.

Console.WriteLine(responseFromServer);

// Clean up the streams.

reader.Close();

dataStream.Close();

response.Close();

}

catch (Exception ex)

{

Console.WriteLine(ex);

}

// Wait 5 second before sending

System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(5000);

} //Infinite Loop ends here.

}

}

}

Compile and Run the Program.

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Leave the Program Running and switch to Power BI dashboard. You will see your newly created Tile in previous post will be displaying the Random Value generated by this program updating every 5 seconds.

That’s all with little tweaking to this program you can fetch your data and send the updated data to your Real Time Streaming Dataset.

That’s end to this post.

I will come up with more details in my upcoming posts.

Till then keep Exploring and learning.

 

 

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Real-Time Dashboard Tile & Streaming Dataset– in Power BI

Ashwini Tripathi

Power BI have introduced real-time dashboard tiles – a lightweight, simple way to get real-time data onto your dashboard. Real-time tiles can be created in minutes by pushing data to the Power BI REST APIs or from streams you’ve created in Azure Stream Analytics or PubNub, a popular real-time streaming service. Let’s see how we can do in no time.

Login to your Power BI using your credentials.

Go to your dashboard where you wish to add Real Time Streaming Tile, choose “Add a tile”

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Select the “Custom streaming data” option

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Click on Next.

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At first usage you may not be having Streaming Dataset, if you have List will be shown.

Let’s create one for our Example, Click the link – Manage Data.

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Click on Add Streaming Dataset.

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From New Streaming Dataset, Select API and click on Next.

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Add your Dataset Name, Fields and Datatypes.

Once you are done, Click on Create.

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Copy your Push URL, we will require this to push data to Data Stream.

Click On Done.

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Returning to our Previous Step, Now we can see Streaming Dataset Available.

Select your Dataset and Click on Next.

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Select the Type of Visualization you want, and Fields to display.

Click on Next.

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Give Title, Subtitle to your Tile and click on Apply.

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Bravo, you are done, your Tile will be added on your Dashboard.

But hold on, the Value will not come until you add logic to push data to the Tile.

Now we will move to our Next Step, where we will create a program to call Power BI REST API and push Streaming data to our Dashboard. Checkout my next post for same. [App for Power BI REST APIs for Streaming Data]

Till then keep Exploring & Learning. I will return soon with my next post.

 

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Save General Journals as Standard Journal in Navision

Ashwini Tripathi

Do you Know you can save the General Journal as Standard Journal and retrive edit and post it later.

Many of time we pass entries of same Nature, Like Rent, Salary, Bills etc.. just an example you can decide upon which entries you post frequently and club it as Standard Journal to save your time.

You can create once and retrive it every month or when ever required and Post it in future/later.This can serve you as template for future use.

Let us see how we can use this feature.

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Open your General Journal.

Make entries which you do oftenly. Don’t put Postng Date & Document No. Complete your all entries.

Next we will save this as Standard Journal for future use.

From Action choose Save as Standard Journal.

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Give Code & Name for your Journal Template.

If Amounts are fixed every time you can enter them too and while Save choose Save Amount.

No Let us review the entry that we saved.

From Action Choose Get Standard Journal.

This will display you all Saved Standard General Journals.

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Select the required Journal Code and Click on Edit.

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This is what is Saved in your Standard Journal.

Let use return to the Standard Journal List.

Select desired/ earlier saved Std. Journal and Click on OK.

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Confirmation of Std. Journal retrived and Journals created in General Journal Page.

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Your General Journal gets populated with values you saved to Std. Journal.

Have you Noticed, Posting Date as your Work Date and Next Document No. from your assigned No. Series is populated Automatically.

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Fill the Amount and any other required fields and Post the Journal.

Next time when again you wish to post similar entries just retrive it and continue.

Thats all for todays Post, What you are waiting for give it a try.

I will comeup with more details in my upcoming Posts, till then keep exploring and Learning.

 

 

Data, Development Tips, How To, Information, Tip & Tricks

Creating Views – to Save Filtered Lists in NAV

Ashwini Tripathi

Do you Know you can save the Page as View with filters.

Many of time we access to Page and apply same set of Filters to fetch our data. You can save the same for quick retrival of data applying the filters automatically in future access.

You save the Page with Filters as View.

Let us see small example how to achieve it.

First we will open the List Page in my case i am having one customized Customer List.

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Suppose this is the Page which i use for Balances Retrival each month and on daily basis.

I Enter Filter as Balance > 5000 & Current Month Filter whenever i wish to check balances for my reporting or followup purpose.

For Date Filter i use (-CM..CM) sothat when i open this view next month it takes the appropriate Filter for that month.

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Click on the Page Name post applying all the required Filters.

Select Save View as.

Give the Name for the View.

Select the Location to save the View.

On Confirmation respond as Yes.

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Your View will be Saved, You can create as much Views as desired using different Filters.

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Small and good Feature.

What you are waiting for give it a try.

I will comeup with more information in my upcoming posts, till then keep exploring and learning.