From the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Blogs: Generate symbols; Item attributes; Flow, Twitter & NAV; Printing

From this week's Microsoft Dynamics NAV blogs:

• Generate symbols in a modern development environment with Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2018
• Item attributes are missing from item ‘fact box'
• Microsoft Flow, Twitter and Dynamics NAV
• Print the document to a specific printer

Generate symbols in a modern development environment with Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2018

On the Dynamics NAV team blog, members of the team wrote that since Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2018 was released in December, more developers are using the new and modern development environment experience side-by-side the C/SIDE development environment:

Working with a standard CRONUS database is pretty easy, while every developer would like to give it a spin with their own customized database.

The team wrote that in that scenario, it's critical to have the right symbols generated so they can successfully pulled out by an AL extension command in Visual Studio Code and develop a custom extension against a proper customized source database.

You can get information about installing the C/SIDE development environment side-by-side with the modern development environment as well as how generate/re-generate symbols here.

And you find some tips that can help you generate symbols here.

Item attributes are missing from item ‘fact box'

On his Dynamics NAV Essentials blog, Mahmoud M. AlSaadi wrote that in a recent implementation of Dynamics NAV for a customer, he imported a huge number of items with several characteristics.

He wrote that the item attributes ...