When you need to design a layout for a report, using VSCode, when creating an extension, as you might already know, you have the choice between using Report Builder and Visual Studio. And you can use both of them at the same time, which enables you to combine the advantages of both environments when designing … Read More →
Here I’m again, ready to continue this post (http://thinkaboutit.be/2019/01/how-do-i-create-a-document-report-and-layout-in-vscode-part1). At this moment we have a dataset that fetches information from two tables: a header and a line, that are joined together via the DataItemLink and PrintOnlyIfDetail properties. Now it’s time to add a layout. Now, a report can have none, one, or multiple layouts. Using the … Read More →
In my blog post: How Do I : Create a Report, and layout, in VSCode? I explained the basics on how you can create a simple report for Business Central. In this post, and due to many requests, I will explain how you can get started to create a document report. What is a document … Read More →
(Copied from: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/modeling-view-in-power-bi-desktop/) The new modeling view for Power BI Desktop is here! See the announcement in the November Power BI Desktop feature summary. It is designed to work with enterprise datasets that grow in complexity. Such datasets can easily contain over 100 tables. Here is a summary of what you can do with the … Read More →
There are many ways to spin up a demo environment for Dynamics 365 Business Central. For example, you can use a Docker image, or register for an online tenant, or create one on Azure: What Docker Image is right for you? Multiple ways to run a NAV on Docker image. http://aka.ms/getnav http://aka.ms/navdeveloperpreview http://aka.ms/getnavworkshopvms Sign up … Read More →
Now that we have installed and configured Business Central On Premises, let’s see how you can configure and use Visual Studio Code to create an extension. First, let’s verify the service tier development settings: Make sure Enable Developer Service Endpoint has been enabled, and make a note of the Port number (default 7049). Then download … Read More →
After you have installed Business Central On Premises, as explained in the previous blog post, you will notice that Personalization is not enabled: I don’t know why, if this is by design or not, but you can enable it as follows. First, find your navsettings.json file: Here you can find more info on modifying the … Read More →
To install Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central On Premises, first obtain the installation DVD. You can download it here: https://mbs.microsoft.com/partnersource/northamerica/support/bconpremdownload Then, select your flavor (localization): Download and unzip it, then run the setup.exe: Click Next in the welcome screen: Accept the eula: Choose your setup options: When you select the Get a free online trial … Read More →
Did you know that you can select the environment you publish to in Visual Studio Code? For example, when you AL:Publish (F5), you then see multiple choices: To accomplish this, simply use a comma (,) in the “configurations” section in your Launch.json file: And voila, that’s it! 🙂
Have you been in a situation where you are on a Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central instance and want to figure out the build number? Well, look no further and simply open the System Information page: and voila: Update The above information is no longer valid. In the meantime, if you are running a version … Read More →
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/nav/2018/07/30/developer-preview-july-2018-update/ Welcome to the July update of the Developer Preview. With this release, we bring you several new features that help building your solutions as extensions. We also include over 200 resolved GitHub issues. See the list of closed bugs here: https://github.com/Microsoft/AL/milestone/18?closed=1. OData-bound actions in AL Event discovery using a recorder Extensible Enums This Developer Preview is … Read More →
Microsoft recently announced the features planned for release in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central between October 2018 and March 2019: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/business-applications-release-notes/october18/dynamics365-business-central/planned-features https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/business-applications-release-notes/october18/dynamics365-business-central/ Feature Release type Target release month Productivity features for desktop users General Availability October 2018 Accessibility features for desktop users General Availability October 2018 Refreshed experience on major desktop screens General Availability October … Read More →
There’s an interesting section on docs.microsoft.com about: How to build a localization for Business Central. If you are planning to build localization apps, you should pay attention to the following considerations and requirements: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/developer/readiness/readiness-develop-localization See Also Build Your Business on Dynamics 365 Business Central Integrate a 3rd Party Solution Development of a Vertical Solution Development … Read More →
Welcome to the May 2018 Developer Preview update. In this release we have focused primarily on burning down the outstanding bugs reported through GitHub. This milestone contains ~300 events and bug fixes and brings the number of outstanding bugs close to 0. See the list of closed bugs here: https://github.com/Microsoft/AL/milestone/16?closed=1. We have also added a few small … Read More →
The latest cumulative updates for Dynamics NAV 2015 (CU 41), Dynamics NAV 2016 (CU 29), Dynamics NAV 2017 (CU 16), and Dynamics NAV 2018 (CU 03) introduce the DataClassification property on tables and fields. This property lets you tag table and field data with one of the classifications described in the next section. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/nav/2018/03/08/classifying-data-in-dynamics-nav/