NAV7 will be named NAV 2013

At Convergence in Houston it has made clear NAV7 will be named NAV 2013 and it should be available in 2012 Q4.

As said before there are many changes to come, amongst them:

Forms : As they are not going to be useful anymore we will be able to be import the forms only for conversion purposes.

XMLports being upgraded will cover the old dataports requirement.

Queries: Will be able to run from the browser and retrieve data for OData (Open Data Protocol)


The beta will be released in May 2012, so wait and see!

NAV7 Screenshot

Last week Michael Nielsen (the director of development for dynamics NAV at Microsoft) has posted a message on mibuso, the famous NAV forums.

We learn that Forms, Classic reports, Dataports and Classic database will not be present anymore in v7 of dynamics NAV. Those will be replaced for Pages, RDL reports and XML-port that include dataport functionality.

NAV7 Object designer

We also learn that C/SIDE has been renamed "Dynamics NAV Development Environment" , are we going to call it DNDE in the future?

Also did you see the Query from this screenshot? Microsoft hasn't made any official declaration about this yet. So wait and see.

We will have many more news for NAv7 coming up in the following months.
The next big announcement might be during the Dyanmics NAV - Directions EMEA Conference in Rome on April 25-27 2012!!