How to generate charts or KPIs

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 has a new graphical object type called Charts or KPIs (Key Performance indicators). It is a way to create simple graphical charts, to give a visual overview of key figures. This post describes what you can and cannot do with charts, and it contains some sample code to how you might create a "Chart Generator Tool" to make it easier to generate new charts.

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Creating a Cue on a Role Center

How to add a Cue on the RoleTailored client. A Cue provides a way to graphically show the number of entities in a table and view the entities in a filtered list.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff477101.aspx

This walkthrough illustrates the following tasks:

• Creating the Table Field for Cue Data
• Creating a Cue on a Card Page for the Role Center
• Adding an Action to the Cue
• Adding the Cue Card Part Page on the Role Center Page

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Managing network files in RTC

In Dynamics NAV 2009 in RTC client if you are accessing files located on network machines, these files can be accessed when each service is running on single machine, when SQL and NST are on same machine (2 tier) or each service is running on separate machine (3 tier).

However when accessing such network files in (2 and 3 tier) environment there might be some additional Delegation requirements.

As best practice i will summarize these requirements as following.

(Here NAV Server Service is runnign under Domain User account, Service Account for SQL can be same or separate dedicated Domain User account and NAV Server Service account is currently set to allow Kerberos only)

This msdn article can be followed with additional steps as described below

Managing network files in RTC (Setting Delegation)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd568720.aspx