For years, previewing an image attachment inside Business Central meant one of two things: download the file and open it somewhere else, or build a previewer yourself. Many partners built one. A…
Every lookup dialog in Business Central has worked the same way for years: click the drop-down arrow, get a full list of records, search or scroll to find the one you want.…
Yesterday’s issue was about queries reading dirty data without knowing it. This one is almost the mirror image: version 29 gives the Record data type a way to know, directly, whether it’s…
For as long as most Business Central partners have been planning around Microsoft’s release cadence, the rhythm has been predictable: a Wave 1 plan lands around February, a Wave 2 plan lands…
Every AL query object you’ve ever written has been reading data a specific way, and most developers have never had to think about it because there was never a choice to make.…
Every Business Central partner has fielded some version of the same client request: can our invoices look like they came from us, not from generic ERP output. The honest answer has usually…
Tooltips in Business Central have expanded in small, deliberate steps for several releases now. Version 24 brought the ToolTip and ToolTipML properties to table fields, letting a tooltip defined once on a…
Since Business Central 2024 release wave 2, AL extensions have been able to package resources images, JSON files, templates, anything an extension needs at runtime directly inside the app and access them…
Last week, I wrote about the table extension storage change in v29 base table fields and extension fields now living in one physical SQL table instead of two. I framed it as…
For as long as most Business Central partners have been shipping per-tenant extensions, the workflow has looked the same: log into the customer’s tenant, open Extension Management, choose Upload Extension, select the…
