NAV 2009 to 2013 Upgrade - Skipping Data Upgrade

ttnavision

Hi,

We have a client currently looking into upgrading from NAV 2009 SP1 to NAV 2013 however this client has over 450 Companies created on the same DB.

The question here i would like to ask is whether there is a possibility of either skipping the Data Upgrade Process entirely or else automate it in some way.

Kindly advise re this as to upgrade 450 companies is quite a lot and would take a lot of time.

Regards,
TTNAVISION

Marije_Brummel

You can analyse which parts of NAV the upgrade toolkit changes.

One of the big changes is the new Dimensions. If this is used, there is no other way then to run the upgrade toolkit.

Would it be an option to upgrade a set of companies at a time?

ttnavision

Hi Mark,

Thanks for your reply - I shall take a look at the upgrade toolkit to see exactly what is upgraded.

Also, yes upgrading some of the companies at a later stage is an option, however this would still mean that the hours required for upgrading the Data are incurred anyway. What I would also like to ask Mark, is there a way to block the companies (which have not been upgraded) from being used by the users (Ideally not a process involving the altering of permissions).

Thanks once again

TTNAVISION

Marije_Brummel

You can program an error in the companyopen trigger?

ttnavision

Thanks a lot.

Regards,
ttnavision

kriki

WARNING!

NAV2009 to NAV2013 requires that the first part is run in 2009 (using forms!) and then it must be opened with NAV2013 that converts every text-field to UNICODE. After that you CANNOT OPEN your database with NAV2009 anymore.

If you have a lot of small companies, you might back them up some companies at the time, put them in another database. Upgrade that database and then put the companies in the definitive database.

Another way is to change the upgrade tool so you can run it in parallel on different companies (SQL server can handle this) but you will need to change some code in the upgrade tools.