Course 8421A:

Microsoft Business Solutions - Navision 4.0 Commerce Portal

Length:1 Days
Published:March 09, 2005
Language(s):English
Audience(s):IT Professionals
Level:200
Technology:Microsoft Dynamics NAV 4.0
Type:Course
Delivery Method:Instructor-led (classroom)
About this Course
The one-day Microsoft Business Solutions–Navison Commerce Portal 4.0 course describes and explains the most important features of Commerce Portal. This course shows you how to set up Commerce Portal so that you can connect your customers and vendors to your business management system by way of the Internet. The topics covered include setting up and creating Web pages, creating an electronic catalog, setting up customers and vendors, and handling sales quotes, sales orders, and reverse auctions in Commerce Portal.
A thorough understanding of these topics allows you to use Commerce Portal to improve your responsiveness to vendor and customer demands. Your vendors and partners can use a personalized, convenient Web portal to do business with you. You learn how to maintain all your Web pages from within Navision, avoiding the need for extra Internet resources. Commerce Portal can help reduce costs by automating your commerce interactions and optimizing your supply chain. You can also create and complete reverse auctions, allowing your vendors to bid on an item via your Web portal, so you always get the best possible price the market can offer.
Audience Profile
This course is intended for customers wanting to learn about the features of Commerce Portal and for those who want to develop a working knowledge of the procedures required to effectively use the product. It is intended for customers familiar with the accounting and business management application in Navision and for people that already have a general knowledge of business management and of Windows 2000, Microsoft SQL 2000 Server, and Microsoft Commerce Server.
The class is targeted toward IT professionals, information workers, office managers, CEOs, and consultants who need to understand the technical aspects of Commerce Portal and gain foundational knowledge of the application functionality.
At Course Completion
After completing this course, you will be able to:
  • Create multiple websites to suit your business needs.
  • Define permissions for your Web portal users based on roles.
  • Create an electronic catalog.
  • Set up automatic e-mail notifications to Web portal users and colleagues.
  • Set up specific language-dependent text and descriptions to be used on your Web portal.
  • Create a reverse auction and thereby increase the cost efficiency of your purchasing activity.
  • Maintain and change your Web pages as necessary.
  • Troubleshoot common issues and maintain Commerce Portal.
Course OutlineModule 1: Introduction
This chapter provides students with a general overview of the features and benefits of using Commerce Portal in an integrated environment.
Lessons
  • Prerequisites
  • Overview
  • Key Features
After completing this chapter, students will be able to:
  • Identify the key features and benefits available when using Commerce Portal.
  • Know what the prerequisites are for installing Commerce Portal.
  • Understand how Commerce Portal links the Microsoft products together.
Module 2: Setting Up Commerce Portal
This chapter focuses on the setup procedures for Commerce Portal. After you have completed the installation of the required Microsoft products and Navision servers and clients, there are a number of parameters in the Commerce Portal application area that you have to choose. This chapter covers all the different setup procedures that have to be in place before you can start to use Commerce Portal.
Lessons
  • Setting Up Commerce Portal
  • Setting Up Navision Application Server
  • Setting Up a Website
  • Setting Up Web Portal Roles and Permissions
  • Setting Up Notification Processes
  • Setting Up Web Templates
Lab : Creating a WebsiteLab : Creating Notification ProcessesLab : Creating Web Templates
After completing this chapter, students will be able to:
  • Set up general information for Commerce Portal.
  • Set up different websites comprising your Web portal.
  • Create different portal users, give them roles and allocate permissions.
  • Set up internal and external notifications.
  • Understand and create Web templates.
Module 3: Setting Up Web Pages
This chapter outlines how to create Web pages that make up your Web portal based on the Web templates that you have already set up. It shows how to verify that all links are valid. The chapter also describes how to add pictures to your Web pages.
Lessons
  • Creating Web Pages
  • Testing Hyperlinks
  • Adding Pictures to Your Web Portal
Lab : Creating a Web PageLab : Adding Lines to Web TemplatesLab : Adding Menu Items to Your Web Portal Home PageLab : Reloading Web PagesLab : Testing and Fixing HyperlinksLab : Creating a Picture
After completing this chapter, students will be able to:
  • Create Web pages.
  • Understand how to maintain and update hyperlinks.
  • Add pictures to your Web pages.
Module 4: Setting Up Items and Customers
This chapter outlines the final steps you must take before you can welcome users onto your Web portal. Your Web portal contains an electronic product catalog to display the items that you plan to sell. When you design your catalog, you may want to display your items in groups. You can group your items in many different ways.
Lessons
  • Grouping Items on Your Web Portal
  • Customers and Commerce Portal
Lab : Creating a New Class of Item on Your StorefrontLab : Synchronizing to your Web PortalLab : Creating a New Contact PersonLab : Logging On to Your Web Portal
After completing this chapter, students will be able to:
  • Group items on your Web portal.
  • Allow new and existing customers to place orders on your Web portal.
Module 5: Working with Reverse Auction
This chapter describes how you use a reverse auction to ease your purchasing process by requesting offers on different items from your vendors through the Web portal. You can give your vendors access to some of your internal information, located in Navision, by giving them access to your Web portal and you can use the notification process to automatically inform your vendors via e-mail of different events connected with your reverse auctions. This chapter covers all the tasks involved in completeing a reverse auction.
Lessons
  • Vendors and Commerce Portal
  • Reverse Auction
Lab : Creating a New ContactLab : Creating a Reverse AuctionLab : Making a Bid for a Reverse AuctionLab : Closing a Reverse AuctionLab : Selecting a Vendor and Making a Purchase Offer
After completing this chapter, students will be able to:
  • Enable vendors to access information and respond to reverse auctions on your Web portal.
  • Create and complete a reverse auction.
Module 6: Maintaining Microsoft Business Solutions(Navision Commerce Portal
This chapter gives an overview of the system architecture used for Commerce Portal and describes ways to troubleshoot Commerce Portal and monitor its status.
Lessons
  • System Architecture
  • Synchronization
  • Troubleshooting Synchronization
  • Monitoring the Status of Commerce Portal
Lab : Stopping and Starting the Navison Application ServerLab : Changing the security setting of the Synch. Message QueueLab : Stopping and Starting the Navision Commerce Portal Synchronization ServiceLab : Handling the Error Message QueueLab : Troublshooting Navision Application ServerLab : Maintaining Commerce PortalLab : Adding a New Page Property to the Web TemplateLab : Assigning a Value to the Page PropertyLab : Modifying the Relevant ASP FilesLab : Modifying the Synchronization Management CodeunitLab : Designing Commerce ServerLab : Forcing Synchronization of the Contact TableLab : Modifying the Relevant ASP FilesLab : Adding a New Value to the Permission List TableLab : Adding a New Permission to a RoleLab : Modifying the Relevant ASP Page
After completing this chapter, students will be able to:
  • Understand how the components are linked together to comprise Commerce Portal.
  • Understand how the data is synchronized.
  • Troubleshoot the synchronization process to establish the cause of unsuccessful synchronization.
  • Maintain Commerce Portal.
  • Add a new page property to an existing Web page.
  • Assign a value to the page property and display the result on your Web portal.
  • Show additional fields on the Web portal by adding the fields you want to synchronize to the codeunit as well as to the relevant ASP page.
  • Modify contact information in Commerce Server to enable fields to be visible on the Web portal.
  • Add a new permission to the Web Portal Permission table in Navision and then add this new permission to a role.
  • Make use of this new permission on the Web front, ensuring that the information can be viewed from the My Account Web page.
Module 7: Example I: Adding Page Properties to Web PagesThis example is a comprehensive lab that describes how to add a new page property to an existing Web page and how to display this on the Web portal.Lab : Adding a New Page Property to the Web TemplateLab : Assigning a Value to the Page PropertyLab : Modifying the Relevant ASP Files
After completing this module, students will be able to:
  • Add a new page property to an existing Web page.
  • Assign a value to the page property and display the result on your Web portal.
Module 8: Example II: Adding New Fields to Your Web PortalThis example is a comprehensive lab that describes how to expand the synchronization of the Contact table to include a new field and how to display the value of the new field on your Web portal.Lab : Modifying the Synchronization Management CodeunitLab : Designing Commerce ServerLab : Forcing Synchronization of the Contact TableLab : Modifying the Relevant ASP Files
After completing this module, students will be able to:
  • Show additional fields on the Web portal by adding the fields you want to synchronize to the codeunit as well as to the relevant ASP page.
  • Modify contact information in Commerce Server to enable fields to be visible on the Web portal.
Module 9: Example III: Adding PermissionsThis example is a comprehensive lab that describes how to add a new permission to the Permission List table, and explains how to modify the relevant ASP page to recognize the new permission.Lab : Adding a New Value to the Permission List TableLab : Adding a New Permission to a RoleLab : Modifying the Relevant ASP Page
After completing this module, students will be able to:
  • Add a new permission to the Web Portal Permission table in Navision and then add this new permission to a role.
  • Make use of this new permission on the Web front, ensuring that the information can be viewed from the My Account Web page.
Before attending this course, students must have:
  • General knowledge of Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft SQL 2000 Server, and Microsoft Commerce Server.
  • Basic knowledge of the accounting and business management application in Navision.
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