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From the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Blogs: Test automation; Security disables sorting; Data validation; Hide & show fields

by Linda Rosencrance
Contributing Writer, MSDW

In this week's Microsoft Dynamics NAV blogs:

  • Dynamics NAV Test Automation Suite
  • Sorting Cannot be Done Based on Following Flowfields, You Must Set the Security Filtering Mode to ‘Filtered'.
  • Value ‘-1' is Not a Valid Value. The Following Values Can be Used >=0.
  • Dynamically Hide and Show Fields According to a Specific Condition on a Page in Dynamics NAV

NAV Dynamics NAV Test Automation Suite

On the Fenwick Software blog, Dejan Pajk wrote that as systems get more complex and product release cycles get shorter, the task of testing becomes more challenging.

One of the main issues is that testing is traditionally performed manually and usually late in the project, Pajk wrote. And testing represents a huge cost in every Dynamics NAV implementation project.

But one way to save money on testing is via test automation, which aims to increase the number of tests that you run and the frequency at which you run them, according to Pajk.

In his blog post, he introduced the Microsoft test toolset, an automated testing framework that the company included with the release of Dynamics NAV 2016.

You can read about it here.

Sorting Cannot be Done Based on Following Flowfields, You Must Set the Security Filtering Mode to ‘Filtered'.

On Mohana's Dynamics NAV Blog, Mohana Yadav wrote that when he was trying to do a cash receipt, he went to "apply entries" and selected the option to sort by the "remaining amount" but he got the following error:

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About Linda Rosencrance

Linda Rosencrance is a freelance writer/editor in the Boston area. Rosencrance has over 25 years experience as an reporter/investigative reporter, writing for many newspapers in the metropolitan Boston area. Rosencrance has been writing about information technology for the past 16 years.

She has covered a variety of IT subjects, including Microsoft Dynamics, mobile security issues such as data loss prevention, network management, secure mobile app development, privacy, cloud computing, BI, big data, analytics, HR, CRM, ERP, and enterprise IT.

Rosencrance is the author of six true crime books for Kensington Publishing Corp.

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