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Analysis Mode is a relatively new feature in Microsoft’s Business Central. I first heard of it in 2022, and during 2023 was heavily promoted at
Developing extensions for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central can be a complex and time-consuming task, especially when it comes to keeping track of various components,
FieldGroups, originally a concept from Dynamics NAV, has undergone a migration to VS Code and AL. With the latest release of Business Central in 2023
Microsoft introduced data analysis mode on list pages in BC 2023 wave 1. It was discovered over the summer that not all list pages are
We can switch now between Released version of AL extension for VS Code and Pre-release (next release) all from VS Code. IntelliSense gets a refresh,
1. You can hover over labels now and you immediately see the string associated 2. You can produce the app files in a folder of
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Since I started working with Business Central APIs, Postman proved to be an essential tool for API Testing. Postman allows you to create and execute
Hello readers, If you really were burning to find and read one more piece of teaching on permissions and access to BC, your search can
This is a second article targeting BC On-Prem installations. First one referred to auditing BC cmdlets usage using powershell transcription. Give it a read! PowerShell
Whenever you have a process that takes longer use the Performance Profiler page in Business Central, sometimes also called the in-client Performance Profiler, to record a snapshot
With Business Central 2023 Wave 1, Microsoft introduced a new way of composing permission sets. Find out more in my video …
With version Business Central 2023 wave 1, Microsoft has implemented a few changes around permissions. If you are a business user or functional consultant, there
One of the sessions I attended at Directions North America in May 2023 was Jesper Schulz’ session, “Enhanced Interactions using mail merge with Word Templates”.
This article could be useful for both business users and consultants as a follow-up to my previous blog post, which was centered on providing tools
Business Central Online is a cloud-based version of the software that is designed to be fast and efficient. Since Business Central Online is hosted in
Earlier in February 2023, I blogged about how AL compiler talks to SQL Server. Please visit my earlier blog here. I explained how basic AL
Many of us, AL developers, have seen the launch of Github Copilot late last year and some of us have already tried it. I recently
There are about 3500 apps for Business Central in App Source as of this moment built by ISVs for the Business Central community and who
I’ve been meaning for a while to blog about AL language methods and how the get translate into t-sql. In this blog post I will
A lot of us, Business Central professionals, have noticed recent changes to the Business Central Admin Center. The changes consist of a new action and
Who has not noticed a rad.json file during development or in the source code management blade in VS Code? I did, and I got curious
Most professionals working with BC online are receiving notifications of environment changes via email. But did you know that is possible to receive Business Central
As of December 2022, Microsoft offers a variety of communication channels to get notified when Business Central environments are affected. What events are considered to
Telemetry logs via AppInsights Logs In my previous blog post I experimented with 9 use cases involving 4 BC application extensions. I performed new installations,
Business Central is a cloud-based, modular business management solution that can be customized and extended through the use of extensions. These extensions are packages of
Intro About a year ago I wrote an article on the new features that Microsoft introduced on Business Central Admin Center. This time, in this
Intro In this article I will share my findings on how PowerShell transcription can answer audit questions related to extension management in BC. One of
Preamble Soon after starting to work with Business Central, users discover the hierarchical structure of how Microsoft flagship ERP system is designed. They soon hear
In the previous blog post I explained how we can leverage one of the Twilio’s products to send a WhatsApp message from Business Central. By
In this blog post I am going to dive into the use case of sending a WhatsApp message from Business Central utilizing Twilio framework. Most
An end-user wants the company address on all sales invoices, but, when printing checks, the address should be a different one.
Recently I received a question coming to the support ticketing system on how to get a listing of all folders inside c:\Users folder and their
While going through what is new in BC 2022 wave 1, I found out a cool tool. Here comes the new Performance Profiler. While many
Intro Business Central’s Page Inspection is a core component for Microsoft’s flagship ERP for SMB. Something similar existed in Dynamics NAV (zoom) and Microsoft carried
Hello readers, This morning I noticed we can create a sandbox with Business Central 2020 in Preview. In your BC admin center, click on +New
Happy new year, readers! Time for another Feynman technique exercise. Today I tried for the first time (Duh Silviu …. it’s been out there for
This post is about Cloud Migration changes in BC 19 wave 2. If you want to read more about the original Cloud Migration have a
Reasons why data size matters To see the current data size, for the entire database and per environment, in the admin center, click on the
Microsoft keeps adding new features to all facets of Business Central, including the admin center. In this blog post I will go over 5 changes
In Business Central, sales and purchase documents have lines and lines can be of different types: When editing a sales line document, a user would
With Business Central 2021 Wave 2 there is a new page to inspect the chart of accounts. Search for “Chart of Accounts Overview”. This new
News around Preview Posting in Business Central
With BC 2020 wave 2 a new feature was introduced that allows for background checks on journal lines. See more about this new feature here.
Hello Readers! A few weeks back, I watched Erik Hougaard‘s youtube video “Make your own Date Filters in AL and Business Central” and thought of
Hello readers! Recently I have been working on a customization for a customer with the goal of changing the out-of-the-box Positive Pay export for a
Did you ever need a DateTime field in your Business Central extension? I recently added, in one of my customer extensions, a DateTime field, and
There is also the GP migration tool. More about it here.
Using this tool ensures the most important entities, master data and open transactions, will make it into BC. But what if a GP end-user wants additional GP data in BC?
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As most probably know, it is not possible to access the file system while in Business Central cloud environment. For example, in Dynamics NAV, we
Preamble In the previous blog post I’ve described the usage of Power Automate when copying files from Azure Blob Storage somewhere locally. Today, we’ll learn
I found an older post on community.dynamics.com in which someone was asking for ways to automatically drop data extracts originated in BC SaaS into a
One way to make available data from Business Central to different parties and users is to leverage Azure Storage. Customers will need to have an
In the latest versions of Business Central one could find an Advanced Settings page. In the Navigation Bar, click on the magnifying glass icon on
When using web services or API exposed entities you might find useful to request the application service to grab the latest version of the underlying
Intro I started to use Postman for testing Business Central API recently, concomitantly with my engagement in projects involving migrating Dynamics GP customers to BC
Formatting Date fields in Word Layouts
How do we know at what level of hardware requirements will be enough to not only guarantee good performance at deployment, but down the line months and years from deployment?
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“Business Central customers can use up to 80 GB of database storage capacity across all of their environments (production and sandbox), meaning that the sum
While reviewing options to alter existing queries, I felt trap to the fact that now queries do not need a new page to display results,
RunRequestPage allows developers to record the request page settings of a Dynamics NAV/Business Central report without actually running the report. The output of this command
Starting in 2019 I found learning increasingly more about Docker and Microsoft Powershell libraries that get you a running instance of NAV or Business Central
One of the things I bumped into recently was to show a portion of an order confirmation(a portion of the header) only on the first
Long time no blog 🙂 A few days ago I tried to stop a NAS on a NAV 2009 server. The problem was that I
It’s 4 pm. To my surprise a skype call from one of the customers I usually talk maybe once a month. She cut the niceties
PowerApps – Intro What is PowerApps? PowerApps is a service for generating cross platform (iOS, Android, Windows Store) applications. It allows connectivity to different systems,
Problem A bit of context here … I was trying to create an environment in which to write an extension around workflows and notifications. I
As soon as I started working with Containers, more specifically with Azure Containers, around mid-December 2018, I quickly run into a few questions: how can
To start writing extensions for Business Central we have a few choices: installing locally one of the release candidates that comes in the same format
Recently Microsoft announced that dotnet can still be used with installations on premise of Dynamics 365 Business Central. However, if our extension is to make
When you turn On PerTenantExtensionCop in Visual Studio Code and you forgot to create a Permissions.xml file, you get a compile error in your extension.
So much to read, so little time … the speed at which Microsoft adds new Business Central and AL features is overwhelming 🙂 In this
As C/AL is my number one language to code, I wanted since last summer to give it a try to Microsoft Flow. And as Twitter
If there is something that changes in NAV every few releases, is how we backup and restore data (be that full backup, application data, companies
As stated here, beyond the setup and usage of dimensions, developing with NAV requires a better grasp of dimension’s internal design. I’ll be diving shortly into the
Recently I’ve been asked to explain the concept of dimension in NAV and while I managed to come up quickly with an answer I wanted
Thanks for landing here! Microsoft has developed a series of automated tests that allow developers to test various features of the standard application before releasing
We can still deliver our custom code as a fob in NAV 2017 as most VARs will continue to do so in the foreseeable future,
Thank you for landing here. It’s quite common nowadays to hear NAV people talking about Dynamics 365, AppStore, extensions, new AL language and the Visual
The first step in my last NAV upgrade was to back up customized tables. Although having database backups throughout your upgrade process is a no
Deferral accounts, or Prepaid expenses accounts, as defined by Larson, Jensen and Carroll(2002) are asset accounts. These deferral accounts contain payments made for assets to be used
Not long ago I stumbled upon a question on the popular NAV forum dynamicsuser.net. The question was “What is the use of CAPTIONCLASSTRANSLATE command in NAV?”.
Starting with NAV 2015 there is an easier way to migrate data between old and new structures of NAV tables. From msdn excerpt, the upgrade
As of October 2016, NAV 2017 is the latest version of the popular ERP system. To complement the brand new features, NAV team worked on enhancing current features.
Upgrading a NAV AddOn is not solely merging code and upgrading the database through all NAV versions in between source and target. It involves analysis and prototyping
More and more NAV servers are being deployed to the cloud, yet a large number of NAV customers are keeping their NAV installations on premise (either on a physical
From the earliest to the newest NAV versions, long-running tasks are usually accompanied by a progress bar or windows with multiple progress bars. It’s developer’s
I’ve done a few C/AL code merging for Dynamics NAV in the past, and while I don’t mind working with BeyondCompare for a few hours every now and
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