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 →
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 →
Frequently I get questions, remarks, observations from customers, partners, workshop participants, prospects,… about Business Central regarding what’s possible and what not. Question I’m asked frequently are: What are the current limitations when you develop with extensions? What are the current limitations when you compare Business Central Saas (Cloud) with On Prem? Can we still do … 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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →