NAV 2013: Small big changes on field’s length

As Vjekoslav said on his blog NavigateIntoSucces, in Dynamics NAV 2013 some fields have grown from 30 to 50 characters. It may seem silly, but this brutal limitation has given more than one headache to companies using Dynamica NAV.

In previous versions some field’s length had already grown to 50 characters, like customers and vendors names. But item or G/L accounts were left with their meager 30 characters.

Now, with Dynamics NAV 2013, all “Description” and “Name” fields have now 50 characters. Description of Items, Variant, Payment Methods, Fixed Assets, Item Categories, Inventory Periods, etc. Up to 160 “Description” or “Name” fields have grown with Dynamics NAV 2013.

Other length changes:

- The “Your reference” field found on document’s header goes from 30 to 35 characters.

- Fields like “External Document No.”, “Vendor Order Nº”, “Vendor Invoice No.”, etc. goes from 20 to 35.

- “User ID” fields goes from 20 to 50.

- The “Customer Discount Code” field goes from 10 to 20.

Salut!

Laura Nicolàs