Navision Media and Manual

slmaluwa

Hi again!

When we purchase Navision (4.0 SP3), are we supposed to get any printed manuals, use guide, reference guide, etc with it?
We got only the CD media and a letter from MS through our partner :shock:
TIA

Luc_VanDyck

Nope, no printed manuals are delivered with the product.

slmaluwa

Thanks for the reply.

Any suggestions for a newbie like me other than the documents available on the CD?

If I am to move towards NAV developer track, what would be best way of doing it? Where can I learn more about the IDE and code syntax?

TIA

MTC

The Application Designers Guide is on the CD.

Alex_Chow

Luc Van Dyck wrote:

Nope, no printed manuals are delivered with the product.

Not true. You can download the training video and manual for free on Customersource. You need to get your customersource login from the company that you purchase Navision from.

Luc_VanDyck

deadlizard wrote:

Not true. You can download the training video and manual for free on Customersource. You need to get your customersource login from the company that you purchase Navision from.

Is that a manual or a training manual?

Alex_Chow

Hmm... I'm not sure how to answer that question Luc. It describes how to use it as well as what fields you should watch out for. So I guess it's both.

What other kind of useful manual is there?

Ian_Piddington10199

Many years ago there were 2 different sets of manuals. One was purely training and the other was a user guide. When Version 3 came out the user guides stopped being produced in favour of online help.

Ian

David_Singleton

Ian_Piddington wrote:

Many years ago there were 2 different sets of manuals. One was purely training and the other was a user guide. When Version 3 came out the user guides stopped being produced in favour of online help.

Ian

Actually it stopped because Navision just could not keep up. it got to the point, where the biggest thing setting a release date for a version was having all the manuals revised and checked. Keep in mind that in the "guarantee" it says that the product should perform as written in the manuals, so often code couldn't change because then it would not match the manual.

Of course with Microsoft resources out there, things really should be different now.

DenSter

IN my experience the manuals were useless in most cases, because many things are modified during the implementation. All it does is tell you what the out of the box system does, and that's just not enough in most cases.

Alex_Chow

I think the training videos are great for a general overview of Navision. The way it's layed out, lookups, drill downs, etc.

Of course, to get a complete functional training, the new employee would need to learn their process and how Navision fits to that business process.

DenSter

I love the vids, great training tool.

slmaluwa

Thank you all for the reply and comments:

Unfortunately, we are yet to receive access to CustomerSource and an email from MS says it has some "problems" to give access to our areas. and promised to give during May

Hope i will be able to download the videos during that period. In meantime, we are printing ALL docs from cd with the hope of reading them all

Thanks again

Alex_Chow

Good luck! It's a lot of reading!