From the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Blogs: Spicing up NAV 2013; Excel Interop; Office 365 SSO; Directed Pick and Put-away

In this roundup from the Dynamics NAV blogs:

• Spicing Up Your NAV 2013 Pages;
• Excel Interoperability Woes in NAV 2013;
• How To: Set Up Your Microsoft Dynamics NAV Installation for Single Sign-On with Office 365 Using Windows Powershell
• Warning About Enabling Directed Pick and Put-away in NAV

Spicing Up Your NAV 2013 Pages

Bet you never thought anyone would ever figure out how to make Microsoft Dynamics NAV pages "spicier" by making chili for a fundraiser. But then again, you're not Faithie Robertson, a Dynamics NAV developer at ArcherPoint.

"Recently, I had to make a lot of chili. I mean, I made 16 QUARTS of chili. It was for a fundraiser at my church to benefit our youth group.

"At the chili dinner, I noticed something odd. There were three pots of chili. Two pots were mine, and they were emptied very quickly. The third pot, which was much bigger, was still near full when we finished serving. The next day, because we had leftovers, we served lunch after service and we all ate leftover pimento cheese sandwiches and that big pot of chili. Once I tried the big pot of chili....I knew."

With that lack of spice, Faithie saw a parallel to less-than-successful software customizations. "It may work, it may do all it's supposed to do, but it doesn't delight and impress the user. It just fulfills the requirements."

Like a great chili, Dynamics NAV 2013 offers some fabulous ways to spice up your pages, she writes, like using style as a visual signal as "a quick way to get a message across to the user."

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