Category: AL
-
Business Central: Discover hidden extensions and their content
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 about the stacked Microsoft extensions System, System Application, Base application, followed by other Microsoft and ISV’s solutions installed in the user’s environment. Almost all extensions the system is based upon […]
-
Invoke an Azure Function with 2 lines of AL code
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 invoking an Azure Function, which uses Twilio framework, from Business Central, we were able to send a WhatsApp message. Today we are going to look at Microsoft’s own CPaaS (Communication […]
-
An on-demand subscriber with AL
An end-user wants the company address on all sales invoices, but, when printing checks, the address should be a different one.
-
Getting started with Snapshot Debugging in Business Central
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 at least a year!!!) to debug a snapshot. I started my exercise on Microsoft Docs here. Also, very useful was Stefano’s blog. But first, what is a snapshot? A snapshot […]
-
Leveraging “Filter Tokens” codeunit to expand Business Central users’ filtering experience
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 trying it and adding my own bit to it. First, what was the intention with custom filter tokens? The standard application comes already with some tokens. Think of dates, when […]
-
“Field Selection” codeunit – how I select and record the ID of a field in Business Central
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 Bank Account record. While preparing the mapping for the positive pay details, I noticed the way Microsoft wrote the picking up of a field ID. They created a new codeunit: […]
-
Azure Storage Table and its API
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 Azure Portal subscription. There are 4 types of storage in Azure portal: Blob Containers, File Shares, Queues, and Tables. Today’s blog is about Azure Storage Tables and its API. More […]
-
Give customers their own Advanced Settings page in Business Central
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 the address bar; in the search bar type “Advanced Settings”. This brings a NavigatePage, page 9202 “Advanced Settings” located in the Microsoft System Application app. To see the source code […]
-
To use or not to use SelectLatestVersion()
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 data. The definition at Database.SelectLatestVersion Method – Business Central | Microsoft Docs states that with using SelectLatestVersion() function you make sure that “the data displayed is the most current data […]