From the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Blogs: Merging version lists; Understanding error codes; Examining the Limited user; PowerShell tips

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

• Code Upgrade: Merging Version Lists;
• Understanding Error Code 85132273 in Connection with GETLASTERRORCODE Statements;
• Table Permissions for Limited Users;
• Running PowerShell from NAV;

Code Upgrade: Merging Version Lists

The Microsoft Dynamics NAV team tells us that the new merge utilities makes it much easier to merge cumulative updates into your own Microsoft Dynamics NAV solutions. The new utilities arebased on the concept of three-way merge to reconcile two sets of changes made (independently) to a given base version.

"For example, when applying Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015 Cumulative Update 1 to a customized database, the customized database and the cumulative update are both derived from Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015 RTM, which is the shared based version in that case."

The one aspect that raised quite a few questions from the community revolved around merging the Version List object property, according to the team.

"Out-of-the-box the merge command offers only very limited support to handle this. You can either choose to clear the version list or take the version list from the modified or target object. Since the Version List is just text, we couldn't really assume how it is used generically and provide corresponding merge capabilities."

However, they note that the