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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Recently, on some of my ‘machines’ I get the following errors, when trying to publish an extension (F5): The runtime version of the extension package is currently set to ‘2.0’. The runtime version must be set to ‘1.0’ or earlier in the app.json file in order to install the extension package on this platform. Apparently, … 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! 🙂
With this release, there are several new features that help building your solutions as extensions: New virtual tables for Report Data Items and all Page Control fields Translating Base App help using AL extensions Adding help links with user locale on new created objects Field group extensiblity Report substitution is possible from extensions See more … Read More →
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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 →
Have you also been in the situation that you need a NAV or Business Central container (on azure or local) and you can’t get it to integrate with Office 365 and Power BI? Well, Freddy to the rescue: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/freddyk/2018/06/29/aad-authentication/ Thanks Freddy!!!
Invite your colleagues to join us for Dynamics 365 Business Central Technical Blitz, one of three live stream events that will help you understand the new features and capabilities and their impact on current customer implementations. You will hear directly from our technical experts as they demonstrate how to integrate and illuminate the One Microsoft … Read More →