Navision 4 Graphical Interface

Hello Jemmy,

don't think it is a big redesign. The only thing they did is put a navigation pane on the left side of the screen as a replacement of the old navision form menu's. The rest of the User Interface is still the same. The advantage is that the menu docks on the left side so it is always visible (it won't be covered by other open forms. The disadvantage is that i will have a little less room left for all other windows .. :roll:

Just look at outlook 2003 and the navigation pane (wich is standard on the left of the application) and you will get an idea how it looks.

Regards,
Jan-Pieter

I made a screenshot for you. Navision 4.0 will look like this.

High Res: http://web0.eco1027.netclusive.de/nav40_1.jpg
Low Res: http://web0.eco1027.netclusive.de/nav40_2.jpg

I don't like the new navigation pane, but I don't like the Outlook navigation, too. The Navision navigation pane also is not that functional the outlook menu is.

The advantage is that the menu docks on the left side so it is always visible (it won't be covered by other open forms. The disadvantage is that i will have a little less room left for all other windows ..

That is nearly correct. But you can hide the navigation pane (ALT+F1) so you can use the full window. The reason why MS changed this concept is, that more than 80% of the customers uses the full-screen mode. So it is more useful to have the menu always visible.

dijcona wrote:

Hmm, have had a play with it and you better buy a monitor that can handle a decent resolution. Anything less than 1280x1024 and you will be scrolling all over the place.

Is there any professional user who has a lower res than that? I had a try at 1024x768 and had to scroll a bit but not to much. Anyway: I edited my post and added an low res version of the pic, but it is a problem to resize pictures containing text. But I think I solved the problem with the new low res pics.

Not all that convinced IMHO, there appear to be a few new granules but to a large extent it looks like 3.70 with a new menu.

That's the point. It's not that much new. They made a new navigation pane with a new structure, and added just some features to the standard, that many developers already coded for their customers.

But there are two nice optical new features. You could make it also in 3.70, but it wouldn't be "style guide" compliant and for the second thing you have to spend hours for coding. Have a look (and you will see at the low res pics, that it is highly recommended to use a resolution of 1024x768 for Navision 4.0 at least):

1) New style guidelines:
High Res: http://web0.eco1027.netclusive.de/nav40_3.jpg
Low Res: http://web0.eco1027.netclusive.de/nav40_4.jpg

2) New bar charts:
High Res: http://web0.eco1027.netclusive.de/nav40_5.jpg
Low Res: http://web0.eco1027.netclusive.de/nav40_6.jpg

And here are some new granules I took from the price list:
General Ledger
Inter-company Postings (version 4.00 or later only)
Inventory
Analysis Reports (version 4.00 or later only)
Item Budgets (version 4.00 or later only)
Capacity Planning
Production Schedule (version 4.00 or later only)
Business Notification
Business Notification (version 4.00 or later only)
Business Notification Worksheet (version 4.00 or later only)
Business Analytics
Business Analytics Base Functionality (version 4.00 or later only)
Business Analytics Advanced (version 4.00 or later only)
Design
XML Port Designer (version 4.00 or later only)


Of course there are some new features for developers, but I won't list them here now. If anybody is interested: make a post.

Tim81

Yes, they work if you import them. I made a test just now. You have to do some adjustments for some forms, but the "Opportunities Bar Chart" works at first go (in Navision 3.70A).

It's just very complex if you would code it by yourself. So be grateful.

I also miss standard menus very much.
Organization of links over area had an additional info. It is similar as you open a refirigerator and you already know where to pick a beer...
It seems this is the cost of bringing all MBS applications closer.

check these demos - they show the new interface