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26Feb 2020

Quick Tip: Interesting aka.ms links for Business Central

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Here are some interesting aka.ms links I have found: aka.ms/bcideas Dynamics 365 Application Ideas for Dynamics 365 Business Central aka.ms/bccountries Country/Regional availability and Supported Translations aka.ms/collaborate Microsoft Collaborate aka.ms/readytogo The “Ready to Go” Program aka.ms/bclearn Microsoft Learn for Business Central aka.ms/bcproductivity Working with Business Central aka.ms/bckeys Keyboard Shortcuts aka.ms/bcupdates Major Updates of Business Central Online … Read More →

22Feb 2020

Quick Tip: Create your preview environments for Business Central 2020 release wave 1

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Try out the new Business Central 2020 release wave 1 functionality today! Learn how to prepare for major updates with preview environments: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/administration/preview-environments Are you interested to test out all the new bells and whistles of BC version 16, then create your preview sandbox as follows. Go to your Business Central Admin Center: Then spin … Read More →

13Feb 2020

How Do I: Add a Drill-Through to See Records in Power BI Desktop?

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Imagine you have created an amazing Power BI report that summarizes information using different visuals. Power BI Desktop lets you build advanced queries, models, and reports that visualize data and the idea is that the individual records that come from your data source are aggregated and summarized in your report, giving you the possibility to … Read More →

10Feb 2020

How Do I: Create a Report based upon a Query?

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Performance wise it can be very interesting to use query objects as a data-source in a report (or any other object). Imagine you want to create a report that shows the top X records from a table, let’s say for example Customers, then creating a report dataset with a top-x filtering can be very cumbersome. … Read More →

02Feb 2020

How Do I: Implement an Incremental Refresh in Power BI (Free or Pro)?

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A question I get a lot in my Power BI training for Business Central, and non Business Central companies is the following: How can I implement an incremental refresh, without building a data warehouse and without buying a Power BI Premium license? And to be honest, the answer is, it’s not really possible, but there’s … Read More →

23Dec 2019

How Do I: Power BI Pages versus Queries

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I recently came across a question in the Business Central forum: How do I get information about Posted Sales Shipments in Power BI? And this is not a standalone question, I get these questions a lot in my training’s that I deliver all over the world. Many times I see answers suggesting to use existing … Read More →

14Dec 2019

How do I: Add filters in a Report in VSCode with AL?

by srenders ⋅ 1 Comment

Recently someone asked me, what’s wrong with me report, it’s not showing me the correct data? After investigating I noticed that the report used filters, applied in several different ways and that the expected data was not showing up in the dataset, and then of course it was also not displayed in the layout. So, … Read More →

14Dec 2019

Quick Tip: Where do I find the Released Cumulative Updates for Business Central?

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Released Cumulative Updates for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central on-premises: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4470116/released-cumulative-updates-for-microsoft-dynamics-365-business Released Updates for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2019 Release Wave 2: https://support.microsoft.com/nl-be/help/4528706/released-updates-for-microsoft-dynamics-365-business-central-2019 Dynamics 365 Business Central On-Premises Spring 2019 Updates: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/deployment/update-versions-14

25Nov 2019

Quick Tip: Why is my Power BI report not available in the Business Central list?

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Imagine you have created a Power BI report and you want to display in in the Customer list. Then you need to add a report filter in the Power BI report, before you publish it to your work space: Then in Business Central you can go to the customer list page and in the Power … Read More →

23Nov 2019

How Do I: Create a Green-Bar report in RDLC?

by srenders ⋅ 3 Comments

During my reporting workshops I sometimes get the question, is it possible to create a GreenBar report and how do you do that in a matrix? A GreenBar report is actually a report where you apply shading to every other row or column. So let’s start with a simple example and let’s create a simple … Read More →

16Nov 2019

Quick Tip: Check out the new #BCALhelp hashtag

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Tip of the day: Have you checked out the new #BCALhelp hashtag? Remember that you can use it to ask questions directly to the #MSDyn365BC community. There’s already a lot of informative discussions going on:

15Nov 2019

Quick Tip: The Power BI connector for Business Central now supports multiple environments!

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When you use the Power BI Desktop connector for Business Central: you will see all your environments (production, sandboxes,…): And if you try this in the latest version, with the new look & feel, you will see something like this: Nice to see an idea implemented ! 😎https://t.co/W1AO5qrZMI #msdyn365bc #PowerBI pic.twitter.com/YSCNKTFBUu — Steven Renders (@srenders) … Read More →

15Nov 2019

Quick Tip: How do I recreate my launch.json in VSCode?

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Imagine you accidentally delete your launch.json file in your project, or you clone a git repo that does not have a launch.json file, then what do you do? Do you manually create a new launch.json file? Do you copy a launch.json file from another project? Do you go to #bcalhelp and ask for help? These … Read More →

14Nov 2019

Quick Tip: How do I run a Query from VSCode?

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Since the release of the new development environment, some thing have changed… And one of these things is how you, as a developer, run a query. Imagine you have created this amazing query object: Well, in the past you could have simply used Ctrl+R or the Run button in the object designer, to get a … Read More →

11Nov 2019

Quick Tip: How to quickly get the AL files from the Microsoft Base Application

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I recently was made aware that you can simply unzip the Microsoft Base Application, after you download symbols: How cool is that? (I knew that this was possible with your own apps, I simply did not know it was possible with the Microsoft Apps too.)