From the NAV Blogs: Treemap Business Data Visualization; Links to Hotfixes; How to Add a Custom Button

Treemap Business Data Visualization to Improve User Experience: From Christian's blog: "As some of you know, I am driving for extensibility options in Dynamics NAV, which will bring even richer and tailored UI [user interface] to Dynamics NAV users and at the same time open new business opportunities for our partners... The Treemap visualization focuses on providing insight into business data. Users look at business data from different perspectives. In a Treemap visualization, a perspective is composed of two measurements, which define the appearance of size and color for each data element. The brain can efficiently process large sets of data based on size and color, which makes the Treemap visualization very effective.

"With visual filtering, users can see data items disappear or appear dynamically and transition smoothly in size and color. The brain can follow and keep track of dynamic changes for a large number of visual elements simultaneously, which makes the visualization even more effective... The Treemap visualization provides direct access to relevant UI pages so that users can act on the business data object behind a Treemap field."

The "Treemap Business Data Visualization for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 SP1 - Partner Community Edition" is available for download at PartnerSource and  CustomerSource.

Overviews of Released Platform Hotfixes: The Microsoft Dynamics NAV Team Blog posts a helpful ...