Conflicts of opening Report Builder in NAV 2013 R2 After installing NAV 2015

After having installed NAV 2015, which brings in the new report builder from SQL Server 2014 instead of Version 3 which was part of the NAV 2013 R2 installation, it is no longer possible to open the layout of a report in the NAV 2013 R2 Development Environment.

It throws the following error:

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Microsoft Dynamics NAV Development Environment
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An error occurred when opening the report designer. A supported version of Report Builder could not be found.
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OK  
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Solution:

Uninstall the SQL 2014 Report Builder and re-install the SQL 2012 Report Builder. It will work with both NAV versions.
 

Identify Company based on Colors

This Post will explain how one can set various colors to Company Name in RTC if your Customer has more than one legal entities(Company).

If your customer has more than one legal identity and wants to identify each legal entity based on its color, you need not bang your head over this. Dynamics NAV has an option that allows us to specify  System Indicator Styles for each company. By defining unique System Indicator Style for each company, You can identify it with unique colors.

However, There is a limitation for this. Microsoft Dynamics NAV allows us to define only 9 System Indicator Styles apart from the standard style. In simple words, you can define upto 9 different colors for companies in NAV RTC.

Now, Am going to explain how it is done: 

Go to the Company Information Page from Departments/Administration/Application Setup/General

Then, Go to the System Indicator fast tab of Company Information page. 

By default,The value of System Indicator Style will be populated as Standard.

However, users can choose from a list of options namely Accent1,Accent2,...,Accent9. 

The System Indicator Style field will determine the color of company name to be displayed.

For example Accent1 is RED, Accent2 is BLUE  and Accent9 is GRAY.

Hope this helps.

How to disable personalization of the Roletailored Client in Dynamics NAV

In this Post, I am going to explain how to disable personalization of the roletailored client in Dynamics NAV.
 
Dynamics NAV allows users to personalize the pages.

If you want to disable the personalization of RTC for your customers, you can do it by following the below steps.

Open RTC in configuration mode and go to:

Departments > Administration > Application Setup > RoleTailored Client > Profiles

edit the desired profile and check the Disable Personalization field.


After doing this, the customize part will be disabled and your customers will not be able to make any personalizations in the roletailored client.
  

How to change the Startup splash screen of Dynamics NAV

In this post, am going to explain how we can change the splash screen of NAV during startup.

Basically, Dynamics NAV fetches the splash screen image from a certain directory. So, If you can edit the image or replace it with another image (Of course with same resolution), you can manage to change the startup splash screen of Dynamics NAV.


Below location is where Dynamics NAV accesses the splash screen image from:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Dynamics NAV\71\RoleTailored Client\Images

The filename of the Splash screen image is "Splash.PNG"

Now, edit whichever picture you want to put as your NAV Startup Splash Screen and save is as "Splash.PNG".

Replace this image in the above mentioned directory location.

VOILÀ! your Splash screen is now changed!