To work with the data in Navision, you must first open a company.
Click File, Company, Open, and the Open Company window appears. This window lists all of the companies to which you have access in the current database.
Select the company that you want to open.
Click OK to open the company.
You can also open a company by clicking the Main Menu button on the toolbar. When you click this button, only the companies in the current database that you have access to are presented as options.
Even when you click File, Company, Open for the first time and you have not already created any companies, there can be a company for you to open (if you are using the database that contains the demonstration company). This is the company that comes with the program. It contains a complete version of Navision and gives examples of how to set up various types of data. For example, it contains a chart of accounts, a list of customers, some items, posted entries, and so on.
It can be helpful to spend a little time learning about the program by investigating the demonstration company. You can recognize a demonstration company because its name starts with CRONUS and because you are allowed to post only in the months of November, December, January and February.
You can use the demonstration company in two ways. If you want to see all the facilities in the system (including those you have not purchased permissions for), you must use the license file that comes with the demonstration company. It is called cronus.flf, and you can select it by clicking Tools, License Information, and clicking Change .
When you look at the demonstration company with your own license file, you will only be able to see the functions that your license file allows. Your personal license file is called fin.flf. You can select it in the same way as the demonstration license file, but click Import instead. If you work in a larger network, the license file is typically something your system manager will provide for you