ADCS vs. Citrix Client on a PDA

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• ara3n Member Posts: 9,257

  2006-09-01

  Are you using warehouse management? Are you using serialized items? How many users are going to use it? How many records per day are you going to scan?
  
  Remember ADCS uses 1 Navision license. Also Defintely want to use Lanham ADCS addon specially for warehouse management.
  
  Can you develop your own mini Navision forms and have to deal with removing all the things from the screen?

  Ahmed Rashed Amini
  Independent Consultant/Developer
  
  
  blog: https://dynamicsuser.net/nav/b/ara3n

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• megawavez Member Posts: 133

  2006-09-01

  Unfortunately, we have a custom manufacturing module which we will be enhancing programatically.
  
  It's going to be 2 scanners working at the same time throughout the day - they will be scanning inventory labels onto a truck. They'll probably scan around 70-80 labels a day.
  
  If the development process is straighfoward, then developing my own mini forms shouldn't be a problem.
  
  From what I've read so far ADCS uses NAS to talk to navision - is this a generalized link, or does every query require a custom routine in NAS?
  
  Any idea where I can find development information on ADCS?
  
  Thanks for any help.
  
  Chris

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• alfred58 Member Posts: 12

  2006-09-01

  i tried to work with ADCS (nav 3.70) but after many hours of work and no success. Now we use Citrix on the PDA and this works fine:
  
  You need for each PDS a licencse (Client) and to licence the forms on the pda. All other things work normaly and you can do all things without the PDA.

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• ronvdw Member Posts: 16

  2006-09-01

  Since NAV4.00 ADCS technology has been improved significantly.
  
  To-Increase (www.to-increase.com) has recently developed an Data Collection Framework add-on. The add-on is based on the Microsoft ADCS technology but has it's own Navision implementation.
  
  This add-on is model based which mean you can configure your data collection process instead of programming. Many features like validation, barcode support have been implemented. There are several customization points which makes it possible to add custom code. With this solution it is possible to make proces models for any navision entity without programming. For example: a process for creating sales orders with lines via a terminal device can be setup without any programming.
  
  Because ADCS requires only one NAV connection this solution is much cheaper than a handheld device running navision clients.
  
  Kind Regards,
  Ron van der Wijngaard

  Connectivity Studio for Microsoft Dynamics NAV - Where Microsoft Dynamics NAV meets the world

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• ara3n Member Posts: 9,257

  2006-09-01

  If it's just scanning data, and you know how to build your form then go with citrix. Yes ACDS requires a little more knowledge of how it works in order to be able to customize it.

  Ahmed Rashed Amini
  Independent Consultant/Developer
  
  
  blog: https://dynamicsuser.net/nav/b/ara3n

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• megawavez Member Posts: 133

  2006-09-01

  alfred58 wrote:

  i tried to work with ADCS (nav 3.70) but after many hours of work and no success. Now we use Citrix on the PDA and this works fine:
  
  You need for each PDS a licencse (Client) and to licence the forms on the pda. All other things work normaly and you can do all things without the PDA.

  
  Did you use ICA or a published application? I'm currently testing on a PDA and can't quite get the window's to work correctly.
  
  Thanks for the help.

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