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27Feb 2019

Developer Preview – February 2019

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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 →

24Feb 2019

How Do I: Add fields to a Report in Business Central?

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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 →

21Jan 2019

Overview of Dynamics 365 Business Central April ’19 release

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Since its launch in April 2018, Dynamics 365 Business Central has seen increasing adoption by organizations looking to digitally transform their businesses. In October ’18, we launched Business Central as also available in on-premises deployments. April ’19 brings an update to Business Central that aims to enhance current customer satisfaction with the product. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/business-applications-release-notes/April19/dynamics365-business-central/ Overview … Read More →

07Jan 2019

How Do I: Configure my RDLC layout designers for VSCode?

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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 →

06Jan 2019

How Do I : Create a Document Report, and layout, in VSCode? (part2)

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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 →

03Jan 2019

How Do I : Create a Document Report, and layout, in VSCode? (part1)

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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 →

23Dec 2018

Developer Preview – December 2018

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https://community.dynamics.com/business/b/businesscentraldevitpro/archive/2018/12/20/developer-preview-december-2018 This December marks the two year anniversary of the very first AL Developer preview back in December 2016. And we want to use this opportunity to say “Thank you!” to all the partners that have dived into AL, installed the Visual Studio Code, and AL Language tools. We are now at 47K downloads, and … Read More →

20Nov 2018

How Do I: Develop an Extension in Business Central Saas?

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You might have read my previous posts How Do I: Develop an Extension in Business Central On Premises? and How Do I: Create a Dynamics 365 Business Central Demo/Sandbox Environment? Now you might be wondering, How Do I: Develop an Extension in Business Central Saas, meaning the online Business Central environment? Well, first of all, … Read More →

19Nov 2018

AL Developer Preview – November 2018

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Microsoft is ready with the November update of the Developer Preview With this release, we bring you several new features that help building your solutions as extensions. Again this month we have fixed a large number of GitHub issues, see what’s been closed here: closed bugs in November. This Developer Preview is available only through … Read More →

19Nov 2018

How Do I: Create a Dynamics 365 Business Central Demo/Sandbox Environment?

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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 →

18Nov 2018

How Do I: Develop an Extension in Business Central On Premises?

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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 →

17Nov 2018

How Do I: Enable Personalization in Business Central On Premises?

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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 →

17Nov 2018

How Do I: Install Dynamics 365 Business Central On Premises?

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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 →

17Oct 2018

How Do I: Add and Link a Power BI Report to a page in Business Central?

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Let’s get started. In Power BI Desktop, select Get Data, More: Authenticate using your Office 365 credentials (email & password), end then select a query: In this case, I’m filtering the navigator on queries that contain the word item in their name, and then I select Edit to verify the query in the query editor: … Read More →

17Oct 2018

Which object ranges can we use with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central?

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A very interesting blog post from Kurt Juvyns about object ranges: I wanted to provide some clarity on how you want to think about object ranges in Dynamics NAV and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. Which object ranges are used for what, which one have potentially costs associated, how do you apply for them and … Read More →