Week ending 12/12/14

Another week goes by. :)
On the accounts side, still chasing up books for tax returns for a few clients. Just completed first draft partnership accounts for a client with a few queries to follow up next week pre submission to client.
On the Dynamics Nav side, completed the following work:
On site 'master' Dynamics Nav class in London for a day.
Change to dataport to remove line feeds copied into Nav in error by end users. Learnt a lot re ascii codes this week as a result. All very useful.
Further and final fix re text overflow issue for a report previously developed. Number length logic error.

Quotes submitted but not yet approved for:
Sweep up unallocated receipts and related ledger entries where applies to id common.
Dimension auto allocation development to allow user / project type dimension codes to be split based on user assigned split across dimensions.
All not yet approved but likely to be approved in January at the earliest now.
Super user training (on site 3 days) booked for early January.

First line support desk activities have included:
Resolved warehouse shipment would not post query - a bin code issue.
Confirmed issue with csv file export down to invisible characters on Nav data caused by users copying and pasting from excel into Nav. Development amended to account for these characters (see comment above).
Completed some permission changes against users for a client. Confirmed reason for accrual feed at zero values to client - down to zero values on a particular column within an excel file loaded and invoices created.
Resolved accounts schedule difference issue (down to design) and consolidation issue where consolidated company included in consolidation. Surprised it allows this.
Completed a list of developments completed on a version 4 database for a client since 2005.

For the members of my family who have told me they read this blog, told you I would mention you on the blog. Looking forward to seeing some of you on 20th at the wedding. Don't forget I am not driving (so definitely drinking) and father of the groom is buying (pretty sure that is what he said) at the Piano bar at 12.30pm. So see you then!
That's all for now folks. For a change I am stopping work now as there is nothing happening in the business. Expect next week to be even quieter.

Week ending 5/12/14 - not long til Xmas!

This week at FPC.
On the accounts and tax side, client's chased for books or missing data. The deadline is fast approaching for personal tax returns.
On the Dynamics Nav side of the business, 2 client on site visits this week and 1 booked for next week. One this week was a meet and greet with a discussion on upgrading from Dynamics Nav v4 to 2015 and what the benefits would be. We do not do upgrades so this may or may not lead to more work if the client can find a business case.
Another client visit for a very intense day on what Dynamics Nav has on offer. The client is a current user but only for base financials. So the day consisted of running through all the functionality in Nav. Went well.
Also confirmed this week maximum number of users for Dynamics Nav is circa 500. More than I thought but there must be some benefits to the Internet friendly end user interface.
Next week I am at a client site providing some on site training re Dynamics Nav - or as the client calls it a master class.
Work completed this week was mainly around first line support. Issues resolved included:
Confirmed reason for error in excel data sales data file load. Error fixed by client on excel file and reloaded successfully.
Completed a number of bug fixes / enhancements for developments previously delivered. Included text overlap error resulting from inconsistent text lengths for related but different objects.
Confirmed latest client UAT database copy of live from last week.
Developments completed this week, delivered and now in live:
Transfer order excel file load.
Quotes provided this week for:
Alternate business address for new business within set of Nav books.
Adding posted document line descriptions to GL entries form.
Bar code search development - so when bar codes (yes codes) are added to the cross reference table on Nav, a item field called bar code search is updated with all bar codes assigned to the item. the user can then user standard Nav data fields to search for bar codes.
Auto match posted customer ledger entries with common reference point. Really a clear up for posted entries from another development that did not clear due to net refunds.
Waiting for approval and will then schedule the work.
Still looking at / investigating the following:
Jet report issue #VALUE error.
Journals created but at a zero value for sales legacy load (journal represents cost accrual which is created at the same time as sales invoice data).
That's it for this week. :)