Month: January 2019
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Fastest way to get entities in Dynamics NAV or Business Central and not only
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 quite abruptly: “Look, I have a list of 100 customers and I need it in production asap. I have 15 fields with data for each new customer. Can you do […]
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How to PowerApps with Business Central
PowerApps – Intro What is PowerApps? PowerApps is a service for generating cross platform (iOS, Android, Windows Store) applications. It allows connectivity to different systems, comes up with cloud IDE and a cloud admin interface that allows users to publish apps targeting whatever platform you need. The IDE is called PowerApps Studio and can be […]
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The windows account could not be mapped to a valid security identifier (sid).
Problem A bit of context here … I was trying to create an environment in which to write an extension around workflows and notifications. I needed 2 users, one to generate the document and the other one to receive the notification to approve it. I decided to create a local Business Central sandbox and point […]
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Generate Azure Business Central containers using deployment template and parameter files
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 I automate the container creation, how can I update a container (scale up or down, override settings)? How can I scale out my configuration? For some of my questions I […]
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How to generate Azure Containers Instances loaded with Business Central in minutes
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 as any other Dynamics NAV DVD packages, creating a locally hosted docker sandbox, or in Azure as a container instance. As the process of getting your container takes just a […]
