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Corfu Navision 2016, Development Tips, How To, Information, Instalation & Configuration, Tip & Tricks

How do I translate my ResX Files?

Ashwini Tripathi

In my earlier post I have given the overview of Managing Multilanguage support in Navision continuing from same today I will discuss about how to translate the resx files for the Languages not available from Microsoft. 

Microsoft Translator for ResX:

To translate resx file you require to download Microsoft Translator for ResX you can use this link to download.

This will help you to translate your required .resx files

Azure Data Market account / Microsoft Translator data service:

You will need an Azure Data Market account, subscribe to Microsoft Translator data service and a register a developer application in order to use the tool.

You can start setting this up here: https://datamarket.azure.com/developer/applications/

Microsoft Translator is a service on the Windows Azure Marketplace that translates text between many languages. This is a billed service that comes with many different pricing plans. For example, one plan allows the translation of 2,000,000 characters per month for free.

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Steps to get ready for Translation tool:

  1. Get an account on the Azure Data Market with your Microsoft Live ID.
  2. Login into the Azure Data Market (ADM).
  3. Subscribe to the Microsoft Translator Service
  4. Create an application on top of this service in order to use the service in the ResX Translator tool.
  5. Go the developer application registration
  6. Choose the Register button to create a new application.
  7. Enter your information and choose the Create button.

Make sure you note your Client ID and Client Secret, you will need this if you wish to Translate Resx files using Microsoft Translator Service.

If you remember I have shared the link from where you can download Translation Tool. You will require Customer/Partner Source.

Download the Translation Tool (NAV2016PartnerTranslationsToolkit) and extract the zip file.

Scan the extracted Folder here few important files which will help identifying purpose of these files:

  1. Microsoft.MCSUK.RESXTranslator.exe
  2. Microsoft.MCSUK.RESXTranslator.exe.xml
  3. NAV 2016 Creating Custom Platform Translations.pdf
  4. PartnerTranslations.sln

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Each project contains the platform resource files (.resx) for all languages shipped by Microsoft.

The Visual Studio solution file, PartnerTranslations.sln, contains a project for each of the platform assemblies that contain translatable resources. In order to create a custom translation, you add the respective resource files with custom translations to the respective project.

Let us see the directory structure of “NAV2016PartnerTranslationsToolkit\Microsoft.Dynamics.Nav.Language” similar structure is for other projects too.

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For detailed help you can refer to “NAV 2016 Creating Custom Platform Translations.pdf” file.

Let’s start with translating our resx files:

Run the “Microsoft.MCSUK.RESXTranslator.exe” Tool

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Switch to Advanced Tab.

Enter the Client ID and Client Secret obtained in above step when we registered the Application.

Click on Save.

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Switch to Single File Tab.

Browse the .resx file for source language in my case if have selected “Common.Language.Lang.en-US.resx”

Translate To choose desired language available from the drop down. In my case I have selected “Hindi”.

Select the Language 3 char code in my case I have selected “hi-IN [HIN] Hindi (India)”

Click on Translate Now.

Once resx file is translated you will get the summary of result, click ok to return.

Similarly you translate the rex files for each projects listed above.

 

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Post this step you are ready with all of you resx file translated to desired language.

 

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Development Tips, Excel, How To, Office Integration, PowerPivot, Report

Creating My First Report using PowerPivot

Ashwini Tripathi

In my earlier posts we have created the Data model for Analysis.

If you missed them you can follow below links to refresh all information.

PowerPivot for Excel

PowerPivot Creating a Data Model in Excel 2013

Adding more tables to the Data Model using Existing Connection – In PowerPivot

Add relationships to Data Model in PowerPivot

How to add Filter for data retrieval in PowerPivot Data model.

Create a calculated column in PowerPivot

We have learned basic actions, let’s create our first Report.

I will be creating Pivot Matrix Customer Vs Item Sales.

Open the Excel in which we created our Data model and imported our table data.
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Select PivotTable From Ribbon under Home Tab.
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Select New Worksheet or Existing Worksheet as per the case.
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You will see a Pivot is inserted, in right side you will find all the tables available in the Data model of this Worksheet.
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Design the Pivot as above screenshot.
The output of this report will be as below if executed without Date Filter.
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I will come up with more details and features of PowerPivot in my upcoming posts. Till then keep practicing and stay tuned for more details on this topic.

Development Tips, Excel, How To, Jet Reports, Office Integration, Report

Creating My First Report Using Jet Reports

Ashwini Tripathi

Today I will discuss, how to create reports in Excel using Jet Reports.

Below links will be helpful to refresh what I have shared till now:

Installing Jet Express for Excel – Navision 2015

Installing and Publishing the Jet Business Objects on the Microsoft Dynamics Server

Publishing the Jet Data Source Codeunit to the Web Service

Enable SOAP Services and identify connection parameters

Configuring a Data Source in Jet Express

Using Jet Report NL Function

Using Jet Report NF Function

Using Link in Jet Reports

We will be using NL Functions.

Also we will introduce few Arguments for NL Function.

Below Table describes the same:

Parameter Argument Description
What
“Link” Returns a string value that can be used as a filter in another NL function
“LinkField” Returns a string used to retrieve a field from a link table in an NL(Table) function.
“Table” Creates an Excel table object based on the field values returned. Leaving the Field argument blank returns all fields. Use a Field Cache to return multiple fields.
FilterField
“Headers=” Overrides field headers with the array of headers specified by the Filter argument. For use with an NL(Table) or NL(Lookup) function.
“TableName=” Specifies the name to use for the Excel table object created by NL(Table) with the name in the Filter parameter. Use this to refer to the table by name from a Pivot table.
“Filters=” Specifies a set of filters for the query with an array of filters specified by the Filter argument.
“InclusiveLink=” Links the primary table to the one specified by the Filter argument for the purpose of retrieving data.
“IncludeDuplicates=” When the value of the Filter argument is TRUE, specifies that all matching records from the source data will be included in the NL(Table) results.

We will design below report to see how Jet Report is designed.
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Below describes the Formulas need to be inserted in respective cells.

Make sure you add ‘=’ in front of Formulas as defined in Data Type Column.

Cell Reference Formula Data Type
F10 NL(“Link”,”Item”,,”No.”,”=Item No.”) Formula
G10 NL(“Link”,”Customer”,,”No.”,”=Source No.”) Formula
F11 Entry No. Text
G11 Document No. Text
H11 Posting Date Text
I11 Item No. Text
J11 Item – Description Text
K11 Gen. Prod. Posting Group Text
L11 Customer No. Text
M11 Customer   Name Text
N11 Item Ledger Entry Quantity Text
F12 Entry No. Field Names
G12 Document No. Field Names
H12 Posting Date Field Names
I12 Item No. Field Names
J12 NL(“LinkField”,”Item”,”Description”) Formula
K12 NL(“LinkField”,”Item”,”Gen. Prod. Posting Group”) Formula
L12 Source No. Field Names
M12 NL(“LinkField”,”Customer”,”Name”) Formula
N12 Item Ledger Entry Quantity Field Names
E13 NL(“Table”,”Value Entry”,$F$12:$N$12,”Headers=”,$F$11:$N$11,

“TableName=”,”ValueEntry”,”Filters=”,$C$5:$D$8,”InclusiveLink=”,$F$10,

“InclusiveLink=Value Entry”,$G$10,”IncludeDuplicates=”,”True”)

 Formula

Although you can directly key in the text for NL commands and functions as formula. Below I show the Function Wizards for better understanding and how to use the same. All marked as Formula in above Table.

For Rest marked as Text or Field Names, you can key them directly in respective cells.
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The output of Report will as below:
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Stay tuned for upcoming posts for more detailed information.

I understand above example is bit complex I will come up with more simple and basic reports for beginners in my upcoming posts.