During my reporting workshops I sometimes get the question, is it possible to create a GreenBar report and how do you do that in a matrix? A GreenBar report is actually a report where you apply shading to every other row or column. So let’s start with a simple example and let’s create a simple … Read More →
Tip of the day: Have you checked out the new #BCALhelp hashtag? Remember that you can use it to ask questions directly to the #MSDyn365BC community. There’s already a lot of informative discussions going on:
When you use the Power BI Desktop connector for Business Central: you will see all your environments (production, sandboxes,…): And if you try this in the latest version, with the new look & feel, you will see something like this: Nice to see an idea implemented ! 😎https://t.co/W1AO5qrZMI #msdyn365bc #PowerBI pic.twitter.com/YSCNKTFBUu — Steven Renders (@srenders) … Read More →
Imagine you accidentally delete your launch.json file in your project, or you clone a git repo that does not have a launch.json file, then what do you do? Do you manually create a new launch.json file? Do you copy a launch.json file from another project? Do you go to #bcalhelp and ask for help? These … Read More →
Since the release of the new development environment, some thing have changed… And one of these things is how you, as a developer, run a query. Imagine you have created this amazing query object: Well, in the past you could have simply used Ctrl+R or the Run button in the object designer, to get a … Read More →
I recently was made aware that you can simply unzip the Microsoft Base Application, after you download symbols: How cool is that? (I knew that this was possible with your own apps, I simply did not know it was possible with the Microsoft Apps too.)
I have been waiting a long time for this to become available, but now you are able to create an Office 365 trial environment, for free, which can be used for a whole year. Demos.Microsoft.com has been available for some time now, for Microsoft Partners, and I have used it many times to create demo … Read More →
We at Plataan are proud to present: Business Central Booster, a case based learning program to support the in-stream of new Business Central professionals: In other words: Learn By Doing @ https://businesscentralbooster.com Our full encompassing learning paths will boost you in the Business Central professional life and consultancy practice. Real-world implementation scenario leads your learning … Read More →
Please have a look here, to find recently published learning paths on Microsoft Learn, about Business Central: https://aka.ms/bclearn When you apply the above link, these are the results: Deploy and configure Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/paths/deploy-configure-dynamics-365-business-central Return items in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/paths/return-items-dynamics-365-business-central Assemble items in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/paths/assemble-items-dynamics-365-business-central … Read More →
(Copied from: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-desktop-september-2019-feature-summary) You’ll notice one of our exciting updates right away when creating new reports with the September update of Power BI Desktop, a new, modern default theme! Not only do we have a new default theme, but we’ve more than doubled the number of built-in theme options for your report. If you’re a … Read More →
(Copied from: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-desktop-august-2019-feature-summary/) Our August release has another hotly anticipated feature from the Microsoft Business Application Summit, grouping. Grouping in reports, similar to PowerPoint’s grouping, lets you easily organize groups of visuals to move and resize them as a set. This month’s release also has some updates to our newest features, such as an icon … Read More →
(Copied from: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/introducing-the-new-look-for-power-bi-service/) Today we’re excited to announce a public preview of the ‘new look’ for Power BI service. We’re refreshing the user interface to provide a modern experience that’s simpler and builds on customers’ familiarity with Microsoft products. This initial release has updates to the report viewing experience, with more updates planned over the next few … Read More →
(Copied from: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/nl-nl/blog/announcing-the-new-filter-experience-for-power-bi-reports/) The wait is over! This month we are incredibly excited to announce that the new filter experience is now generally available! We have updated the look and feel and added a ton of new functionality. Let’s walk through what’s included in the new filter experience! Pop-up Filter List With the new filter … Read More →
A question I got recently was, how can I visualize or create a dataset that can show/fetch information on a timeline? For example, I have a time-sheet and want to visualize the hours employees worked at certain projects, per day, week, month, year, and so on. In this example I will create an order intake … Read More →
(Copied from: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-desktop-july-2019-feature-summary/) With this month comes the first feature release from our announcements at Microsoft Business Application Summit, Icon sets, which also addresses our current #1 idea on ideas.powerbi.com. On top of this major update, we have incremental improvements for many of our existing features, such as a counts experience for the Key influencers … Read More →