This move which pushes knowledge base content for Dynamics NAV, AX, SL etc. out onto the broad, publicly accessible support website is part of a two month pilot which started on September 1st.

The main advantage of having this content located here is that it will be picked up and indexed by search engines, leading to greater all round visibility.

Articles are not be presented in their entirety but contain the article title and abstracts, allowing customers/partners to visit CustomerSource or PartnerSource to view the complete article.

It will be interesting to see how this progresses after the pilot ends.

Be a part of this years most exiting Dynamics NAV conference!

NAV Decisions 2009 is a FREE virtual conference & tradeshow which is being organized by the good folks at MSDynamicsWorld.com

Attendees will be able to:

• Get up to speed on the latest trends, technologies and strategies for Dynamics NAV
• Listen to real-world customer success stories
• Discover the secrets to establishing priorities and gaining commitment across the organization for your NAV strategy
• Explore which NAV tools will bring you the most success
• Learn how to navigate your way through a successful NAV upgrade
• Drive greater efficiency and productivity from your dynamics system during tough times

Speakers for the event include Vjekoslav Babic

The show opens at 10:45 GMT (6:30am EST) on October 14th and closes at 21:00 GMT (8pm EST)

For more information and to register, head over to navdecisions.com

See you there.

Nextequalzero.com is the shiny new home for my Microsoft Dynamics NAV blog, previously hosted alongside my personal blog at revolution1210.com

Why has it moved?

There are three main reasons:

1. I wanted a specific domain for my Dynamics NAV blog posts.
2. I wanted to switch to a cheaper, open source friendly web host
3. I wanted to switch to the WordPress blogging/cms platform

The blogs previous home was entirely hand crafted in classic ASP and was somewhat frustrating to maintain at times.

The upshot of all this being that I will hopefully be able to dedicate more time to posting.

If you subscribed to the old site, please feel free to do so again.

One which grabbed my attention was their intention to build in RSS support, enabling us to subscribe to content and receive updates via our favorite news readers.

This is good news indeed.

But will everyone be as excited as me?

Apparently there are still only 5.4% of internet users who use RSS aggregators or XML readers to consume information from blogs and other high content web sites.

Step forth the May 1st RSS Awareness Day

A campaign to help raise awareness of the RSS format and increase usage of feeds amongst internet users.

You can visit the website at rssday.org and even help promote the event by placing a banner on your own website or blog.

I must confess that I only discovered the joys of RSS after buying my first Mac.

I don’t know how I could function without it now.

It’s a prize draw competition which you can enter by signing up to the Dynamics Community.

If you’ve not already signed up you can do so at community.dynamics.com using a Windows Live ID.

Once you’ve created your community profile you can take part in the Cash In with the Microsoft Dynamics Community! competition by visiting the cashinwithdynamics.comwebsite and logging in with your community screen name.

Points can be gained each day by spinning the game wheel on the website.

Each point giving you an entry into the prize draws which will be held twice a month starting in April.

The grand prize of an all expenses trip to Las Vegas will be awarded to the person with the highest number of points on June 30th, 2008.

Extra points can be gained if your community screen name is entered as a referrer when somebody else joins the community.

My screen name is Ian Crocker by the way… ..no pressure

Five worked examples are provided which can be followed through in the Test Drive environemt.

The following topics are covered:

• New Dynamics NAV 5 Job Handling
• Advanced Job Features
• Inventory Costing
• Prepayments
• Rapid Implementation

The whole thing hangs together nicely and provides a useful sales/marketing resource.

Perfect for existing or potential customers wanting a flavour of the product without the need to install a client.

The website is completely open with no PartnerSource or CustomerSource login required.

Point your browsers (IE only) to www.dynamicsnavtestdrive.com

What the book aims to teach:

• Become confident with basic NAV definitions and conventions
• Understand the design and development process of a NAV application
• Understand the unique aspects of the NAV data and process flows
• Data Types, Tables, Forms, Reports, and Codeunits
• C/SIDE and C/AL basics – essential navigation, object construction, numbering, basic syntax, naming rules, SIFT technology, string operators and functions, numeric operators and functions, logical and relational operators and functions
• Control Logic and Flow – Conditional statements, I/O statements, sorting, filtering, data flow, FlowFields, process logic flow, creating new functions, documentation, testing
• Advanced C/AL – modifying existing functions, creating new objects, finding code models, advanced debugging techniques

Fast-paced and to-the-point, this book takes you through the important topics of Microsoft Dynamics NAV with clear explanations and practical example code. The book’s selection of topics is driven by what the working developer needs to know in order to become productive as quickly as possible.

The book is available to pre-order from the PACKT Publishing website.