For ages Help has been the laughingstock of NAV. Many where evading the creation of it, even more were mocking about the content. For various reasons. With NAV 2009 MS has picked up this gauntlet in various ways: creating better and more valuable content, putting it online, providing us with…
Prior to NAV 5.0 end-user companies could add their own notes and instructions to any help topic by means of the Company Notes feature. I recall I was happily using it when writing the Help for the Dutch localization as part of the 4.0 project back in 2004. If my…
Each time I am involved in some way with a Dynamics NAV partner with respect to Help for their add-on, inevitably the issue of wanting to have their help on-line pops up. There are many things to be said about this which I am not going to address in this…
Now that MS is enforcing CfMD on partners more and more, we all are faced with the requirement to build a help system, that goes with your add-on, more and more. Hence many of you have been working on creating a HTML help project (or even multiple) as described and…
“It giet oan” as the Friesians would say. Monday March 25, 2013 I will conduct a workshop NAV Online Help for CfMD in Veenendaal (NL). Still some places left. If you are interested feel free to contact me by mail at lvanvugt@fluxxus.nl.
Typically an issue that keeps popping up every now and then on the NAV forums. You have managed to learn to create Help for your add-on and compile your Help project to get the .chm and .hh files. Now you’re ready to test it from the UI and have copied both files…
Recently I have been contacted by a number of Dutch partners to help them out on the creation of Online Help for their add-on in the context of CfMD-ing the add-on. Having a longtime experience with Online Help and recently with CfMD I surely will pick up this request. But instead…
A recent question posed to me regarding the subject brought back a lot of memories on how I came around learning about this. I still remember the day that Dick (Ben McDakkie) and I drove down south to our Belgian Navision sister company. Herman would learn us all about the…
In my search for a NLD version of the Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 RoleTailored Client Terminology slide deck I was pointed by the Dutch MBS PMM Aldert Kadijk to a site I had never been aware of: Microsoft Language Portal. Next to the fact that you can search for any…
After a long time I picked up one of my favorite tasks: building Online Help. Having said that I am quite sure a substantial number of you will frown as I know from the past it was not common that people around me did really like that. So why do I like…