From the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Blogs: Configuring timeouts; Item variants; Upgrade import and compile crash; OnModify trigger

A selection of the latest insight from the Dynamics NAV blogs:

• Configuring Client Timeout;
• Inventory Item Variants;
• NAV Upgrade: Import and Compile Crashes When NST Is Running;
• Dive into Details Eventing OnAfterModify: Watch Out When Checking Against xRec

Configuring Client Timeout

On the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Team blog, J. Thunes writes that since the October 2015 cumulative updates, the folks in the support team have been asked how to configure timeout for Microsoft Dynamics NAV clients.

Thunes said before the October 2015 update, you would manage the Dynamics NAV Windows client timeout configuration at the service level by setting the Idle Client Timeout setting.

Because the value is time, you would configure the Dynamics NAV Windows client to time out after it had been idle for 10 minutes by setting this key to 00:10:00. Then you would have to restart the Dynamics NAV Server service so that the change would take effect.

However, the October 2015 cumulative updates added a new setting: ClientKeepAlive.

You can learn how to configure a timeout interval for the Dynamics NAV Windows client to 10 minutes since that update here.

Inventory Item Variants

On his Dynamics NAV Essentials blog, Mahmoud M. Alsaadi said that typically supply chain companies are concerned with the variations of items that cause a bottleneck in their daily operations in terms of purchasing, storing, tracking and selling these items. Alsaadi said that item variants can be defined as any variation in the ...