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 →
(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 →
Recently someone asked me how to hide the headlines part on a rolecenter page, and what code is required to do that? Personally I would not do that because I find them quite interesting, but if you really want to remove them, here you go. First, open your sandbox environment. If you don’t know how … Read More →
Please have a look at this article from Brian Meier: https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/dynamics365/it/2019/07/17/power-bi-apps-for-dynamics-365-business-central-and-dynamics-nav/ Starting September 1, 2019, content packs are no longer supported on Power BI online. Because of that, updates are no longer supported, and these content packs have been removed from powerbi.com and replaced with Power BI apps. The Power BI apps are now available in Microsoft AppSource and … Read More →
(Copied from: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-desktop-june-2019-feature-summary/) Hopefully, you are either enjoying the start of the Microsoft Business Applications Summit or watching all the exciting news and announcements on social media! To go along with all those other announcements, we, of course, also have a big update for our June update for Power BI Desktop. There are a lot … Read More →
Imagine that you would like to build a report where you display the inventory by item by company: and you want to do this for Business Central (Saas) using the Power BI connector. Let’s see how that would normally go… Launch Power BI Desktop and Get Data using the Business Central connector: In the prompt, authenticate … Read More →
Recently I was ‘playing’ around in my Business Central instance when I noticed the following: At the right bottom of my tenant there’s: Ask us a question So I wondered what would happen when I would ask a question 🙂 And to my surprise, a couple of minutes later I got these emails: I was … Read More →
As explained here on docs: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/administration/tenant-admin-center#notification-recipients The Business Central administration center provides a portal for administrators to perform administrative tasks for a Business Central tenant. And as a partner, you can access the center from the Partner Dashboard in the Microsoft Partner Center. Now, I have a Business Central tenant here: https://businesscentral.dynamics.com/e57bff73-f9b4-49b5-aea5-xxx, which I created … Read More →
The current spring release of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is a new milestone in the transformation and historical journey from NAV to BC. Microsoft formally communicated at Directions Asia that this release will be the last release with a Windows Client, C/Side and C/AL. In October 2019 Microsoft ships her application in AL with … Read More →
Recently someone asked me if it is possible to programmatically access information from notes and add them on a page or report, so I thought, why not blog about it? The first thing you should know is that notes are saved in the table: “Record Link“: And you should also know that there’s a codeunit … Read More →
(Copied from: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-desktop-march-2019-feature-summary/) This month we have a lot of exciting announcements. Two of our most requested features on UserVoice are releasing this month, heat maps and single select slicers. Additionally, we are making our complete facelift of the modeling view generally available. New DAX functions and improvements to existing features, such as buttons and … Read More →
Developer Preview – February 2019: Microsoft Dynamics Blog: https://community.dynamics.com/business/b/businesscentraldevitpro/archive/2019/02/27/developer-preview-february-2019 Welcome to the February edition of the Developer Preview. The biggest announcement this month is that we are publishing a preview of the base application fully on AL language. There is a new Docker image, which contains this version here: bcinsider.azurecr.io/bcsandbox-master:14.0.28630.0-al. Currently this image is not … Read More →
UPDATE: How do I: Create a Report Extension to add a field to the dataset of a Report? – think about IT That’s a question I hear frequently from Customers and I see frequently on several fora. And if you are new to Business Central, without any prior knowledge of Dynamics NAV Development, … Read More →