This is a quick blog post with two aims regarding the Dynamic Connector. The fist aim is to point you to an excellent resource for the connector. The blog written by Konstantin is one of the best blogs on the Dynamic Connector (CRM/NAV connector as I still sometimes call it) http://www.nav-connector.com/ He has some great blog… [Read more…]
March 2, 2012
I had a very frustrating last few hours, I was having a date format error with the connector. I was mapping Job to Contract and Job Planning Line to Contract Line. The Job to contract was working perfectly and the dates coming across without any problems, unless I had forgotten to a put a date… [Read more…]
March 1, 2012
I was getting the error above when trying to add an order in CRM the reason I was getting this error because I was using the service user to try and add records into CRM 2011. This won’t work because the service user can only create/modify records using the SDK. This is a new edition… [Read more…]
February 23, 2012
I have had two very frustrating days wrestling with the connector or to call it by its proper name the Connector for Microsoft Dynamics. I was trying to map Jobs to Contracts, this worked fine, a bit of tinkering to work out what values I needed to put into Contract template lookups but this is… [Read more…]
February 22, 2012
If you use the connector regularly you will eventually want to map a custom table which isn’t covered by the standard maps. To do this in CRM side is easy, you run the configuration utility and add the new entity but to do this in NAV requires a bit more work. The connector works (as… [Read more…]
February 21, 2012
I was trying to set up a new connector configuration whilst updating an existing connector installation. One of the things I haven’t worked out is to have the connector connecting multiple NAV databases that use different services. When you setup the connector you can only point it at one service in the adapter settings, unfortunately I would… [Read more…]
February 20, 2012
Here is an excellent video from msdyncomm which runs through the new features in V2 of the Connector for Microsoft Dynamics. This is an indepth video which is 23 minutes long and goes through some of the features in detail like the new filtering functionality (which is excellent by the way)
February 20, 2012
I noticed a few links today from an article published on Dynamics world, you can read the article below Microsoft Looking for Improved Sentiment on V2 of Connector for Dynamics ERP and CRM The article is made up from quotes from a number of my blog posts on the connector and overall it gave the… [Read more…]
February 17, 2012
A very useful video to help anyone who is trying to install the CRM/NAV connector The connector installation has to be done in a certain order and if you turn the maps on in an incorrect order then you could receive hundreds or thousands of errors when maps try to run without the prerequisites maps… [Read more…]
February 16, 2012
I saw this link on twitter which featured three videos discussing the Dynamics Connector and specifically using it to integrate Dynamic NAV and Dynamic CRM. The videos are a bit of sales pitch but they are free. Well done to MIG for providing these
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