Yesterday I received this email: We’re temporarily postponing updates to version 24.5 We’re temporarily postponing updates to version 24.5, and your tenant has one or more environments currently scheduled to receive this update. If you have an environment scheduled to receive an update while updates are postponed, your environment will not be updated automatically, but … Read More →
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 release wave 2 is live! Watch the event on YouTube and dive into the latest updates: What’s new in 2024 release wave 2 – YouTube
You can easily create a slicer in Power BI Desktop with the Dropdown Style: But can you also add a Search in the slicer, so you can search for a specific value if the dropdown is a long list? Yes you can. Simply click on the dots to select More Options for your slicer, and … Read More →
🎉 It’s here! Business Central 2024 release wave 2 is officially LIVE! 📢 Ready to dive into the newest features? Join us for the Business Central Launch Event on October 8th at 4:30 PM (CEST) and get the inside scoop on everything this exciting release has to offer. Don’t miss it! 🚀 Register now at … Read More →
As from this week you can create a Business Central 2024 Wave 2 Saas Sandbox: You can have a look here at some expected features: New and planned features for Dynamics 365 Business Central, 2024 release wave 2 | Microsoft Learn Microsoft Dynamics 365 – Release Plans This one in particular could be … Read More →
The release plan for Business Central 2024 release wave 2 is now live! Discover what’s new and planned for Dynamics 365 Business Central at http://aka.ms/BCReleasePlan. What interests me the most is: Some interesting Power BI reports coming: Finance: 14 reports Sales: 12 reports Purchasing: 13 reports Inventory: 7 reports Manufacturing: 11 reports Projects: 6 reports … Read More →
When you create a Power BI Dataflow with the Business Central connector, you might get the following error: The OData connector failed with the following error: We cannot convert the value null to type Duration. The error mentions a conversion of null into a type Duration. This got me thinking. Let’s have a look at … Read More →
To assist you when developing AL objects in VSCode, there are two very interesting extensions I can recommend: GitHub Copilot GitHub Copilot Chat GitHub Copilot provides autocomplete-style suggestions from an AI pair programmer as you code. You can receive suggestions from GitHub Copilot either by starting to write the code you want to use, … Read More →
Currently Microsoft is updating BC Saas sandboxes to version 23. When you create a new AL project (AL:Go!), and setup your launch.json and app.json files correctly and then try to download symbols, then you might get this error: This AL extension version for Visual Studio Code cannot be used with the specified server. Please update … Read More →
Want to get started with Excel layouts for Business Central? Then have a look here: http://aka.ms/bcexcelsamples Business Central 2022 release wave 1 (version 20) introduced the feature Excel layouts as a way to layout and run reports using Excel. This repo contains instructions for how you can use different Excel and Power Query features in … Read More →
If you are using Business Central Telemetry in Azure Application Insights, then you might be very interested in this amazing Power BI report: BCTech/README.md at master · microsoft/BCTech (github.com) Use this link to install/update the template app: https://aka.ms/bctelemetryreport The report comes with sample data. To connect the report to an Azure Application Insights resource, you need … Read More →
Many times when you create a company in Business Central for a BE (Belgium) tenant, you will get your Cronus demo data in French when you actually wanted it in Dutch. If you have a Belgian trial version of Business Central and you are using the ENGLISH language in Business Central, THEN the setup … Read More →
In Power BI Desktop, and in the Power BI Service, Maps and Filled Map visuals might show up as follows: Don’t worry, there’s nothing wrong with your report, it’s a new setting, announced in October last year. Back in October, we announced that we were introducing a tenant-level setting to enable or disable Bing Maps … Read More →
In almost every PowerBI report at some point you will require time intelligence. You might want to display information on a timeline or create time based measures using DAX time intelligence functions. For that to work properly it’s a best practice to always create your own Date (or Calendar) table in the Power BI … Read More →
Did you know that Windows 10 came with a free remote control tool called Quick Assist? Quick Assist is an app in Windows 10 that enables you to receive or provide assistance over a remote connection. Here’s a video about it: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/videoplayer/embed/RE4FyMn?pid=ocpVideo0-innerdiv-oneplayer&postJsllMsg=true&maskLevel=20&market=en-us Give assistance Select Start > Quick Assist (or select the Start button, type Quick Assist in the search box, … Read More →