Navision Attain Beginners and Advanced Manuals 3.01A - 3.70

shogan@mila.ie
shogan@mila.ie Member Posts: 113
edited 2003-11-07 in Navision Attain
Hello everyone,

Hope you are all well - not long until Christmas I suppose!

Anyways, I see a lot of Attain newbies mentioning that they are learning the basics of Attain.

I am wondering where you newbies are sourcing information.

The Help files are very good, but there is no process flow - each topic is independent of each other, bar 'related topics'.

Does anyone know of tutorials where they tackle issues such as: creating buttons, restricting records on sales quotes to the user that created them, asking a user to confirm a change they made to a vendor product number field before committing it to the database, etc., as well as the bigger issues, such as creating reports with little text-based charts and forms for departments.

I am a programmer myself, working on Modula-2, C, C++, VB, VB.NET, JAVA2SE, JAVA2EE, VBA etc.

Attain seems to be very VERY different from most of these, and I am trying to get my head around it. I have C/SIDE Basic Design Course manuals, but they do not cover everything I wanted to do!

As an idea, I am thinking of writing a tutorial manual of my own, highlighting the experiences of what my company works at, as we have two companies in our database that we commonly use.

I would be very happy if anyone though making a tutorial manual covering actual examples was a good idea, as I find it hard to get any books on Attain. where is the MSPress in all of this? :)

Just bear in mind that Attain is so vast (even though we are still on 3.01A!) that it is usually the small things that take up most of our time!


Thanking you all in advance,

Stephen H.

Comments

  • Walker
    Walker Member Posts: 5
    I am totally agree with what you said. It's so hard to find a book and Navision is so different. Is it the way SAP went before -- no reference resources at the beginning. You can find a lot of books about SAP in Amazon now.

    I think most of us are very excited to hear from you that you are going to write a tutorial manual with your real life examples and experiences :D

    Just a friendly reminder. You can find the developer guide from the CD-ROM's \doc folder. Better than nothing, ha ha... :-)
  • mstallmann
    mstallmann Member Posts: 138
    On the partner site, they have the programmers course and the developers course. You will have to dig around a little, but you can find them in there. Not even 1/10 as extensive as all of the other languages out there, but it's what I found.

    You will be taking a step back programming in CSIDE, coming from C++ or Java. No object oriented functionality, and a real lack of accessible methods/properties in CSIDE. I have been programming C# for the last couple of years, and Nav Development is starting to drive me mad :? ....You will be challenged to create some really funky ass workarounds.

    Also, I was really lucky to take a class from one of the Navision Developers...he was able to show me a lot of stuff in Navision that is just plain odd...

    I would be totally thrilled to see a book on Navision programming, as the examples are far and few out there...I did find one site (http://navisioner.com/) :idea: that has some decent examples, but there is not that much material there. As soon as I get a little better at this CSIDE stuff, I will start posting there, and hope everyone else can to, to share the code..anyway, I better shut up and get back to work...let me know when your book comes out....mike
    www.Oztera.com
  • Jeff_Fierce
    Jeff_Fierce Member Posts: 32
    CRM_Service.pdf
    Navision Attain Essentials_final.pdf
    Fibu 3.60.pdf
    Lagerbewertung 3.60.pdf
    EVL 3.60.pdf
    Inventur_360.pdf
    LiefMahn_360.pdf
    SCM.pdf
    Manuf_360.zip
    Terminology_Handbook.pdf
    Programming I and II
    Expertenwissen zu Microsoft Navision Attain, hrsg v. Kindermann TCV GmbH, ISBN 3-93181568

    All those are approx 2500 pages, not all relevant to programming of course and obviously all german but i think most of it is available in other languages too.
  • McLean
    McLean Member Posts: 32
    Jeff
    Expertenwissen zu Microsoft Navision Attain, hrsg v. Kindermann TCV GmbH, ISBN 3-93181568

    I relise that this book is in German, but our library service has been unable to trace it either by the ISBN number or the author. Can you check the ISBN number for me please and possibly give the name of the publishers?

    Thanks
    Angus
  • Doomhammer
    Doomhammer Member Posts: 211
    Hi.

    If you are Navision Solution Center's employee, you may request Navision's education course. This is called Navision Attain Consultant in Programming and there you can learn basics of C/Side programming.
    (I am using experiences gained in Czech Republic, where I live and work so I don't know, if it is working in other world but I hope it works everywhere :-) ). This training course is not very good, but anything is better than nothing :-).

    At my beginning in Navi-world 2,5 years ago, I looked for similar book, but I didn't find anything.

    I think, that an book with complete overview of programming basics with many examples (book for beginners and dummies :-) like me :-)) will be good idea; not only for beginners, but also for more experienced developers. As people in CZ tell, revision is mother of wisdom (opakování je matka moudrosti in czech :wink: )
    Martin Bokůvka, AxiomProvis
  • Jeff_Fierce
    Jeff_Fierce Member Posts: 32
    Sorry for the incorrect ISBN number, here comes the right one:

    3-931815-68-4
    SPC TEIA Lehrbuch Verlag
    Hrsg.: Kindermann TCV GmbH
  • eromein
    eromein Member Posts: 589
    Anyways Stephen,

    If you're still planning to make this beginners manual, I would like to help you by reading it over (not grammer or spelling but pure technical info) and maybe give you some hints and tips about thing that should be in this manual.

    And if your book goed public, we will discus my salary :wink:
    "Real programmers don't comment their code.
    If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand."
  • McLean
    McLean Member Posts: 32
    Thanks for the ISBN Jeff.
    via Amazon.de I've found a number of books on Attain and Financials from this publisher.
    I am going to write to them to ask if they have plans to produce an English version. (got find someone who can write German!)

    regards
    Angus
  • Jeff_Fierce
    Jeff_Fierce Member Posts: 32
    edited 2003-11-06
    McLean wrote:
    (got find someone who can write German!)

    Me?

    Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren (dear mme & srs)

    Planen Sie eine englische Version für Ihre Bücher mit den ISBN-Nummer? (Do you plan an english version of the books with ISBN No listed below?)

    No. (paste book titles, numbers here)
    No.
    No.

    Mit freundlichen Grüssen (greetings)

    your name.
  • McLean
    McLean Member Posts: 32
    Jeff,
    It had occurred to me to ask you but I thought that would be going to too far!

    Many thanks
    Angus
  • Jeff_Fierce
    Jeff_Fierce Member Posts: 32
    If you want additional text added, ask. But i think they might be able to answer your request in English too.

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