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AL and SOAP

This sample is based on a page extension for page 8 (Currencies) where an action for downloading exchange rates from the Swedish State Bank has been added. The logic itself isn’t super advanced and it requires SEK as local currency. The focus here is to show how to: Create SOAP request XML Do an HTTP […]

Unix Datetime UTC

Here’s a little trick to generate a Unix Datetime in UTC. PROCEDURE DT2UnixDTUTC@81237(DtIn@81200 : DateTime) : BigInteger; VAR DtOffset@81203 : DotNet “‘mscorlib, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089’.System.DateTimeOffset”; DtUtc@81206 : DateTime; Duration@81208 : Duration; TempDate@81209 : Date; TempTime@81210 : Time; BEGIN EVALUATE(TempDate, COPYSTR(FORMAT(DtIn, 0, 9), 1, 10)); EVALUATE(TempTime, COPYSTR(FORMAT(DtIn, 0, 9), 12, 8)); DtUtc := CREATEDATETIME(TempDate, TempTime); Duration […]

Json, REST and Zendesk

Many of us have been using XML and SOAP for a long time now. This time my task was to create tickets in Zendesk based on events in NAV. I soon discovered that Zendesk uses REST web services and that it talks Json…. 😯 I soon found Gunnar Gestssons blog post on “JSON meets NAV“. […]

TableType::ExternalSQL

One very cool feature in NAV2016 is the table type “ExternalSQL”. In older versions you had to use a view in SQL for each table and set the property LinkedObject. Now you don’t have to do that any more. Let’s take a look at it: Here you can see how you can use TableType, ExternalName […]

AltSearchField in NAV2016

The property AltSearchField is removed in NAV2016 but importing an object from NAV2015/2013 which had that property set will still keep the property value even though it’s not visible in the development environment. This might not be an issue until you try to rename the field that is set as AltSearchField. Then you’ll end up […]