A thread on the BC community forum this week is a good trigger to make a point I’ve been meaning to make for a while: if you are still building Word report layouts through the classic XML Mapping pane, it is time to switch to the newer Word add-in data picker instead. What triggered it … Read More →
The Capacity page in the Business Central admin center is one of those screens partners open only once something has already gone wrong. Usually a sandbox that refuses to get created. That is a shame. The page answers two separate questions at once. Reading it correctly before you hit a wall saves a support ticket … Read More →
Update 28.4 for Business Central 2026 Release Wave 1 was released on 3 August 2026. Application build 28.4.53241, platform build 28.0.53152. A quiet month on features, mostly hotfixes, no localization updates. Feature changes Payables Agent known senders, general availability. Skips redundant classification for vendor emails already seen. See release plan. Payments with the electronic document … Read More →
Ask a new AL developer what version of Business Central they are targeting and you will usually get an app.json screenshot and a shrug. Business Central exposes at least three different numbers for what people casually call “the version,” and only one of them controls what code you are allowed to write. Three numbers, three … Read More →
Microsoft has started rolling out Business Central 28.3, the latest minor update for the 2026 Release Wave 1. As with every minor update, 28.3 delivers a combination of new features, improvements, localization updates, and hotfixes. Here are some of the highlights. Sales Order Agent reaches General Availability The Sales Order Agent continues to mature and … Read More →
Most Business Central Power BI Problems Aren’t Power BI Problems I spent some time browsing the Dynamics 365 Business Central Community forums recently. One thing immediately stood out: almost every Power BI question looked different, but most had the same root cause. Some people couldn’t connect the standard apps. Others still saw CRONUS. Some reported … Read More →
Update 28.2 for Business Central 2026 Release Wave 1 shipped on 5 June 2026. Build numbers: Application 28.2.51034, Platform 28.0.50938. The hotfix details and on-premises download are in KB5100266. Unlike 28.1, this update carries a meaningful set of feature changes alongside the usual hotfixes. Several reach general availability, a few enter public preview. Sales Order … Read More →
Microsoft provides standard Power BI reports for Business Central, but the download location is not as obvious as it used to be. If you are looking for the PBIX files, don’t search for the old GitHub repository. That location is no longer the right place to look. The current route is through the official Business Central … Read More →
Microsoft pauses the Business Central major release rollout almost every time. This is not a bug in the process. It is the process working as designed, and it has been that way since at least 2020. The question is not whether a pause will happen, but whether your environments are in a good position when … Read More →
Update 28.1 for Business Central 2026 Release Wave 1 is available. Expense Agent and Expense Management The headline addition in 28.1 is the Expense Agent, entering public preview alongside a new Expense Management module. These two pieces go together: the module provides the data structure (expense reports, categories, subcategories, posting groups, approval workflow), and the … Read More →
BC28 is rolling out. That is fine, mostly. What is less fine is what happens to an environment that gets upgraded to a version Microsoft then discovers has a critical issue. The rollout stops. The fix takes days, sometimes longer. Environments still on the previous version are protected. Environments that were already upgraded are stuck. … Read More →
A previous post on this blog treated “model multipliers” and “usage-based billing” as if they describe the same cost problem. A sharp comment on LinkedIn pointed out they do not. This post sets that straight, including one insight that changes the sub-agent picture entirely. What changes on June 1 Starting June 1, 2026, most Copilot … Read More →
GitHub Copilot’s move to usage-based billing with model multipliers taking effect June 1 is a good moment to step back and ask a question most AL developers have not had to think about seriously: Is Copilot the right tool for every AI-assisted task or just the most convenient one? The answer depends heavily on what … Read More →
FlowFields in Business Central are not stored in the database. Every time you need their value in AL code, you have to ask for it explicitly. There are two ways to do that: CalcFields SetAutoCalcFields They are not interchangeable, and using the wrong one in the wrong context is one of the more common performance … Read More →
At the start of April I published a hands-on post about the Word add-in and mentioned that a new version was in preview with improvements coming in a minor BC28 update. BC28 is now generally available, and the BCLE session “What’s new: Enhanced Document Reporting” presented by Kennie Nybo Pontoppidan and Mirko from the engineering … Read More →
The Business Central Launch Edition for 2026 release wave 1 went live on April 1, 2026: Thirty-seven sessions, just under ten hours, all free at aka.ms/BCLE. I covered the release notes a few weeks ago: Business Central 2026 Release Wave 1: A Mix of Platform Evolution and Practical Improvements. Partner deck: aka.ms/BCLEDECK Copilot and AI … Read More →
Word layouts for Business Central document reports have always been a practical choice for invoices, quotes, orders, and other documents you send to customers or suppliers. Designing those layouts, however, has not always been straightforward. Controlling what appears and what stays hidden depending on the data in the document required either manual workarounds or developer … Read More →
One of the most common questions I get when setting up Power BI with Business Central is: do I need a paid Power BI license? The short answer is yes. But let me explain exactly why, and what happens if you do not have one. There Are Two Ways Power BI Works with Business Central … Read More →
Microsoft has published the release notes for Business Central version 28, which reaches general availability in April 2026. The preview has been available since early March, and the feature table is substantial. What stands out in this release is not a single headline feature. Version 28 is a layered release: platform evolution in the background, … Read More →
When you need to expose data from Business Central, the first question is not how, but what kind of interaction you need: Are you writing data into the system, or reading data out of it? That single distinction determines whether you should use an API page or an API query. Both expose data over HTTP … Read More →