August Cumulative Updates for MSDYN365BC On-premises
for standard Release (RTM Based)CU 10 for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central UpdateApplies to: Dynamics 365 Business Central, Dynamics 365 Business Central on-premises RTM No Title No Description for Spring ReleaseCU 02 for Microsoft… Continue Reading rstefanetti’s Article on their blog August Cumulative Updates for MSDYN365BC On-premises for standard Release (RTM Based)CU 10 for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business...
Public Preview of MSDYN365BC 2019 Release Wave 2
The first public preview of Release Wave 2 was released (Platform 15). The main purpose and core DOGMA of this new release is: “AL only“, also you will never find CSIDE, C/AL and Windows Client support from now ! “Microsoft AL and Web Client Only!” Welcome to “AL Only world“ Now you can find two Microsoft’s extensions: BaseApp (version 15.0.0.0)System Application (version 1.0.0.0) All the new…...
September 1, 2019, content packs are no longer supported on Power BI online
Starting September 1, 2019, content packs are no longer supported on Power BI online. At this point, updates to existing content packs are no longer supported. For more information, see the annoucement on the Power BI blog: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-power-bi-template-apps-general-availability The following changes apply to the Power BI content packs that were… Continue Reading rstefanetti’s...
New Dynamics 365 Bounty Program (by MSRC)
The new bounty program (by MSRC- Microsoft Security Response Center) has been divided into three different categories: Cloud Bounty Program, Microsoft Identity Bounty Program and Azure DevOps Bounty Programs. Bounties will be awarded at Microsoft’s discretion based on the severity and impact of the vulnerability and the quality of the submission, and subject to the Microsoft Bounty Terms and… Continue Reading rstefanetti’s...
Unable to login to Business Central “Lock by another user” or “Something Went Wrong”
Unable to login to Business Central “Lock by another user” or “Something Went Wrong” I found in the forum a post related to this topic, then many MVPs replied about it and since I think this thing is interesting and could be useful to users, I summarized the opinions and some workaround that have been proposed. I will keep the post updated based on the new cases that will be… Continue Reading rstefanetti’s...
An “Online” Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) Simulator
“One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind”. Neil Armstrong, on the Moon, 20.7.1969, 20:17:40. Yesterday, 20 July 1969I was not born yet, but I have a certain envy for those who were there!The whole world has stopped for this event. When Armstrong laid his foot on the lunar soil: “He touched” he was pronounced all over the world. Unbelievable. Today, 20 July 201950 years have… Continue Reading...
Integrate MVC Web Applications with Business Central SOAP
Integrate MVC Web Applications with Business Central SOAP About MVC (Model View Controller) The Model-View-Controller (MVC) architectural pattern divides the apps into three main components: Model, View and Controller. The MVC pattern lets you create simpler apps to update and test against traditional monolithic apps. • Models: classes that represent the data of the app. Model classes use the… Continue Reading...
“Hot” August for Business Central
A lot of Business Central new features will be available in preview in August. Some title: Design for extensibilityAdmins, makers, or analysts, automaticallyAugust 2019October 2019 Ability to download a database backup fileAdmins, makers, or analysts, automaticallyAugust 2019October 2019Improvements in update testing and preparationAdmins, makers, or analysts, automaticallyAugust 2019October 2019
Business Central: Delete User Configurations and Personalizations
Business Central: Delete User Configurations and Personalizations If you have some issues with Business Central users, ex: you can’t login (the “back home message”), permissions lost, run-time errors on pages, standard fields not showed in pages etc.), you can delete ALL user configuration and personalizations to recover the “bad” user. After making the deletions there are still… Continue Reading rstefanetti’s Article on...
Power BI Deployment Reports Tips for Business Central Users
“Publish and Deploy Power BI Dashboard and Reports to users using alternative scenarios” In addition to integrating Power BI into Business Central, it could be useful to be able to use a fast access portal or receive scheduled reports from Power BI automatically without going through the complete Power BI (Pro and Premium) solution. All this is already existing and usable if I use Power BI… Continue Reading rstefanetti’s...
MVP Award #4
I’m very proud and honored to have been renewed as MVP for Business Applications for another year! (4Th).Thanks Cristina González Herrero and the whole MVP Award team at Microsoft! #MicrosoftMVP #MVPbuzz #MSDYN365BC #Microsoft #Microsoft #GreatCommunity #BusinessCentral Continue Reading rstefanetti’s Article on their blog MVP Award #4 I’m very proud and honored to have been renewed as MVP for Business Applications...
Typologies of Items in Business Central
Typologies of Items in Business CentralInventory Items, Non-Inventory Items, Service Items, Charge ItemsIn addition to the standard inventory-items, there are two other types of items: non-Inventory and in service items.These types of items can create item ledger entries but only on an empty location (not declared location, BLANK location) in sense of movement with no stock; it’s not… Continue Reading rstefanetti’s Article...
Magazzino Fiscale a LIFO – Roberto Stefanetti NAV & Business Central Blog
Magazzino Fiscale a LIFOLIFO: Definizione del MetodoIl metodo LIFO (Last-In-First-Out) è uno dei diversi possibili impieghi della gestione delle scorte di magazzino. In relazione al tipo di metodo utilizzato per la valorizzazione delle scorte, e ve ne sono molti (LIFO, FIFO, NIFO, medio ponderato progressivo, ecc.), si perviene a risultati di reddito e di valore delle scorte stesse… Continue Reading rstefanetti’s Article...
MSDYN365 Release Wave 2 Plan – Roberto Stefanetti NAV & Business Central Blog
MSDYN365 Release Wave 2 PlanThe 2019 release wave 2 for Dynamics 365 brings innovations that provide you with significant capabilities to transform your business.Source https://docs.microsoft.com/it-it/dynamics365-release-plan/2019wave2/PDF Download link file:///C:/Users/rstefanetti/Downloads/dynamics365-2019-release-wave-2-plan.pdfDynamics 365 Business CentralWhat’s New and PlannedThis… Continue Reading rstefanetti’s...
Business Central Debug on different Sandboxes – Roberto Stefanetti NAV & Business Central Blog
Business Central Debug on different SandboxesGood morning,Someone asked me for info on how to debug in the sandbox in a SaaS environment, where there are more than one sandbox.The thing is simple, but sometimes it happens that an error is returned when there are more Sandboxes; in this case, it is necessary to connect to the correct tenant and sandbox, otherwise the VS code connects to the… Continue Reading rstefanetti’s...
Physical Inventory Orders in Business Central – Roberto Stefanetti NAV & Business Central Blog
Physical Inventory Orders in Business CentralInteresting feature, little documented up to now, relating to the management of inventory orders, I believe deriving from the German localization (as indicated in the link below) and also existing in other ERP systems.Very interesting topic (my humble opinion) because it allows to subdivide the count of inventories by warehouse and to create more… Continue Reading rstefanetti’s...
SQL Server Performance with Business Central – Roberto Stefanetti NAV & Business Central Blog
SQL Server Performance with Business CentralLately interesting articles have been published on how to optimize business central with sql server, how to better use the data cache, how to use partition tables, how to use compression, how to monitor performance, since they are interesting to report.Optimizing SQL Server Performance with Business Central
MSDYN365BC CU07 is available to download – Roberto Stefanetti NAV & Business Central Blog
CU07 is for the previous main release of MSDYN365BC (r. 13) and not for the new April’19 Release (r. 14).The following table lists the Cumulative Updates that have been released for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. The Cumulative Updates include hotfixes that apply to all countries and select local versions.Cumulative Updates for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central on-premises
“TEMPO ZERO CLOUD” PER BUSINESS CENTRAL, 11 Giugno @Microsoft House – Roberto Stefanetti NAV & Business Central Blog
NAV-LAB IN MICROSOFT LANCIA TEMPO ZERO CLOUD PER BUSINESS CENTRAL, 11 Giugno 2019 in MICROSOFT HOUSE a MilanoE’ da sempre uno degli obiettivi di Microsoft Italia, così come per il gruppo NAV-lab, sviluppare soluzioni e servizi che rispondano alle moderne esigenze delle PMI, coinvolte nella trasformazione digitale.Per una visione globale delle innovative tecnologie Microsoft dedicate alla… Continue Reading rstefanetti’s...
Business Central SaaS – Kill Sessions – Roberto Stefanetti NAV & Business Central Blog
It could happen that the messages “another user has modified” or “a table is locked by another user” appear, in this case you have to wait for the situation to be unlocked, by letting the users out or waiting.Currently the only way to break the deadlocksSurely they will be working on a better management of the sessions through telemetry or other .. I don’t know. To date, the only… Continue Reading rstefanetti’s Article on...
New Business Central Books – Roberto Stefanetti NAV & Business Central Blog
New Business Central BooksAnnouncements: new books are coming!is a fertile time for books on Business Central … there are at least 3 coming soon …one is already availableone will come out in few daysone is already on Pre-OrderI point out all three of them:#1 – The first: “Programming Microsoft Dynamics Business Central – Sixth Edition”
Development Coding Rules and Naming Conventions for Microsoft AL – Roberto Stefanetti NAV & Business Central Blog
Development Coding Rules and Naming Conventions for Microsoft ALHi guys, in this short post i want to talk about “Development Coding Rules and Naming Conventions for Microsoft AL Language Extension”; previously i already dealt with this topic in relation to C/AL, now I try to do it for Microsoft AL.For the development on Al, plan rules come up both for the management of the object names… Continue Reading rstefanetti’s...
Testing Jobs and Reports Scheduling with a Date Formula – Roberto Stefanetti NAV & Business Central Blog
Testing Jobs and Reports Scheduling with a Date FormulaNice and useful feature added to Job Scheduling and Report Scheduling, available since Dynamics 365 Business Central April’19 Release; now is possible to schedule a job or report in more detailed mode, defining a parametric running date scenario based on date formulas for execution (like existing in other ERP systems).This feature was… Continue Reading rstefanetti’s...
Business Central Queries VS Views – Roberto Stefanetti NAV & Business Central Blog
Business Central Queries VS ViewsQueries and Views are two very interesting objects for Business Central, that can be used for various purposes. As both can be used, I point out the differences and the ways of using them with a couple of examples.In this Scenario the battle card is: “Queries VS Views”…a glorious battle like in GOT (Games of Thrones)… between the lord of the night and… Continue Reading rstefanetti’s Article...
Business Central Resources
Interesting post on resources available for Business Central by Steve Endow.Resources-Microsoft Resources (a lot…)-Blogs & Sites-Books & Ebooks-E-Learning Courses-Downloadable courses-Youtube Channels-User Groups-Development and Docker Resouces-Social links (Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, Slideshare)There are also downloadable courses …the road to Business Central Certifications?
Business Central On-premise News and Updated Server Options (April’19 Release)
Business Central On-premise News and Updated Server Options (April’19 Release)Quickly,In the Business Central April’19 On-premise release, some new interesting server properties have been included and some existing downs have been updated.I bring them back as they were presented at Directions ASIA and they went unnoticed; those related to SQL Server seem very interesting. BUSINESS CENTRAL… Continue Reading rstefanetti’s...
Duplicated Permissions Sets in Business Central SaaS – Roberto Stefanetti NAV & Business Central Blog
Duplicated Permissions Sets in Business Central SaaSSCENARIO:Installing an extension with an duplicated permission setOne the requirements to have a Dynamics 365 Business Central extension put on AppSource (or not published on “AppSource” but ready to Production Environment) is “Permission set(s) must be created by your extension and when marked, should give the user all setup and usage… Continue Reading rstefanetti’s...
Testing AL RAD (Rapid Application Development) – Roberto Stefanetti NAV & Business Central Blog
Testing AL RAD (Rapid Application Development)#1 – ABOUT RAD “RAD” is an old C/SIDE term used for “changing an application object, compiling it, and seeing the results instantaneously in the client”. Microsoft tried to replicate a similar experience for extension development in AL Language in VS Code. More specifically it is “about publishing only the objects that changed since the… Continue Reading rstefanetti’s Article...
Business Central April’19 Release, best topics – Roberto Stefanetti NAV & Business Central Blog
Business Central April’19 Release, best topicsApril ’19 brings an update to Business Central that aims to enhance current customer satisfaction with the product.BEST TOPICS for April release (and from minor updates after April)– Powerful new features for business, partner, developers, sales, customers and end-users– Security, Stability, Performance, reliability, and scalability… Continue Reading rstefanetti’s Article on...
Goodbay to C/SIDE and Windows Client!
The new era of Dynamics 365 Business Central!Today @DirectionsAsia Microsoft announced that April release will be the last version of C/SIDE and Windows Client.Hello VSCode and AL, Hello Modern Client! … Goodbay to C/SIDE and Windows Client! Continue Reading rstefanetti’s Article on their blog
Count Records in Tables on Business Central SaaS – Roberto Stefanetti NAV & Business Central Blog
Count Records in Tables on Business Central SaaSScenarioIt might be useful to simply count the records in the tables of a company in a simple way; on Business Central On-premises, we have access to SQL Server, on Business Central SaaS no. Not all tables are accessible and readable in BC SaaS (this applies to both Hidden System tables and some standard tables ex: “AllObjWithCaption” table)… Continue Reading rstefanetti’s...
CU 04 for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central on-premises is available
Hi Guys!CU04 for MSDYN365BC On-premises is available !Source https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4470116/released-cumulative-updates-for-microsoft-dynamics-365-business Continue Reading rstefanetti’s Article on their blog
Consuming Business Central APIs from Python – Roberto Stefanetti NAV & Business Central Blog
Consuming Business Central APIs from Python Scenario: Reading data from Business Central APIs and read and write to SQL Server from Python. Python is an alternative way to Visual Studio (.NET, C#), PHP and others, is also available “as extension” in VS Code. #1 – About Python ”Python is a programming language that lets you work quickly and integrate systems more effectively”Python… Continue Reading rstefanetti’s Article on...
Developer Preview February 2019 – Roberto Stefanetti NAV & Business Central Blog
Developer Preview February 2019The February 2019 Developer Preview brings several improvements and new features, below I mention some of the most important including:#1 – Base application in full AL LanguageThe base application is fully on AL language; having the base application fully converted to AL means, that it is one big extension with almost 6000 files. To make it easier to work with… Continue Reading rstefanetti’s...
Bound Actions in Dynamics NAV & Business Central – Roberto Stefanetti NAV & Business Central Blog
Bound Actions in Dynamics NAV and Business CentralSince Dynamics NAV 2018, the possibility of using “Bound Actions” was introduced. Surely it’s interesting because before, it was necessary to use workarounds (these workarounds are available in the various forums blogs) to simulate the pressure of a key recalling a function, now with this integrated technology, is certainly more… Continue Reading rstefanetti’s Article on...
Item Attributes in Business Central – Roberto Stefanetti NAV & Business Central Blog
Item Attributes in Business CentralI’ve never talked about this feature of Business Central (and NAV 2017) that I find interesting and that can be useful. It can be used to store and manage some information related to articles in a simple way; it is not a product configurator but can be useful and can be enhanced with some small customizations.Some BenefitsYou can add additional details to… Continue Reading rstefanetti’s...
Dynamics 365 Business Central Apps Part II – Roberto Stefanetti NAV & Business Central Blog
Dynamics 365 Business Central Apps – Part II Hi Guys! Here we are at Part II of post about Apps available for Dynamics 365 Business Central, while we are waiting for the release of April (which will be available many new good things …), some new apps have been uploaded to the portal and available to download. All the apps you find at the link below, I point out some that seem… Continue Reading rstefanetti’s Article on...
Graphical planning tools in Dynamics NAV and Business Central – Roberto Stefanetti NAV & Business Central Blog
“Standard Planning” in Dynamics NAV and in Business Central The completedetailed planning in Dynamics 365 Business Central (and in Dynamics NAV sure..) is done through the MPSMRP planning which can be launched from the planning worksheet (you can find some posts on the planning parameters in this blog); However, it is also possible to use other tools that can be used for job… Continue Reading rstefanetti’s Article on their...
AL Language Tools
Great tools (for Translation and Testing) for a better Dynamics 365 Business Central development experience by ClipDynamics (the “Nicolas” sisters!) TRANSLATIONS Automatically create XLIFF files for languages other than es-USSnippets for translations, captions, labels and other UI texts TESTING Snippets for testingTools to generate testing codeunits and procedures (Under… Continue Reading rstefanetti’s Article...
Overview of Dynamics 365 Business Central April ’19 release – Roberto Stefanetti NAV & Business Central Blog
April ’19 brings an update to Business Central that aims to enhance current customer satisfaction with the product. MAIN TOPICS– Powerful new features for business users– Performance, reliability, and scalability enhancements– Accessibility, Data and AI – Base application as an app “What’s new and planned for Dynamics 365 Business Central” This topic lists… Continue Reading rstefanetti’s Article on their...
CU03 for MSDYN365BC On-premise is available
A cumulative update is a cumulative set of files that includes all hotfixes and regulatory features that have been released for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. The latest cumulative update listed in this article includes hotfixes and regulatory features released for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, including hotfixes and regulatory features released in previous… Continue Reading rstefanetti’s Article on...
Build and Deploy an APP in NAV 2018 and in MSDYN365BC On-premise – Fast Checklist – Roberto Stefanetti NAV & Business Central Blog
Build and Deploy an APP in NAV 2018 and in MSDYN365BC On-premise – Fast Checklist FAST CHECKLIST TO BUILD AND DEPLOY AN APP Hi people, my book about NAV 2018 and Business Central On-premise https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/implementing-microsoft-dynamics-365-business-central-premise-fourth-edition is not a development book (there are others published and others are… Continue Reading rstefanetti’s Article on...
AL Object Designer, a nice first Step to RAD? – Roberto Stefanetti NAV & Business Central Blog
Great extension and post by Márton Sági about his creation: the “AL Abject Designer” extension for Microsoft AL, a nice first step for Fast and Visual Development (an a first approach to RAD development I hope, like in NAVISION 3.70). Regardless of what Microsoft will do or not (to date you do not know), I consider this extension very interesting and carry the article and some… Continue Reading rstefanetti’s Article on...
XMLPorts Runner for Business Central SaaS – Roberto Stefanetti NAV & Business Central Blog
XMLPorts Runner for Business Central SaaS It’s possible to recall XMLPorts (Xmlport.Import and Xmlport.Export properties) using the STREAM objects (InStream and OutStream), in this way it is possible to pass the source files (input output) in the STREAMS and to pass it in execution to the XMLPort in order to be processed; very useful function for Dynamics 365 Business Central… Continue Reading rstefanetti’s Article on...
Top Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central & NAV expert articles of the year – Roberto Stefanetti NAV & Business Central Blog
Hi Guys, in this last post of the year (promised) I report this interesting article published today on MSDynamicsWorld.com by Jason Gumpert. This article summarizes the best posts of the year 2018 about Dynamics NAV & Dynamics 365 Business Central, published for the MSDW magazine, honored to be part of it. Top Articles of the Year 2018 From Tenerife to Business Central:… Continue Reading rstefanetti’s Article on their...
Barcodes & QRCodes in Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS – Roberto Stefanetti NAV & Business Central Blog
Barcodes & QRCodes in Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS MY QUESTION TO MICROSOFT “I would need to understand (and to have some examples if possible) what is the best solution to use Barcode in MSDYN365 SaaS since it is not possible to install fonts on MSDYN365 SaaS to date by, In this case I would need the GS1-128 barcode font” Example with barcode font GS1-128 (ex EAN-18) Barcode… Continue Reading rstefanetti’s...
A Book for Christmas! – Roberto Stefanetti NAV & Business Central Blog
A Book for Christmas! Yes, today finally my book “Implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central On-Premise” has been published! Link https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/implementing-microsoft-dynamics-365-business-central-premise-fourth-edition About the Book, Topics and Author This book is not a bible, is not a course, is not a workshop, it’s just a… Continue Reading rstefanetti’s Article on their...
New public roadmap for Business Applications launched – Roberto Stefanetti NAV & Business Central Blog
Delivering most requested application features (from Ideas, Insider, Partners, MS-Support, GitHub, MVPs, Business Central Community)Modern client improvementsiOS and Android device supportIntegration to Dynamics 365 AppsSmartList designerMachine learning enhancementsLifecycle services for ISVsLifecycle services for system integrators/implementersContinued investment in our integration to… Continue Reading rstefanetti’s...
CU02 for Dynamics 365 Business Central on-premise released – Roberto Stefanetti NAV & Business Central Blog
This cumulative update includes all hotfixes and regulatory features that have been released for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, including hotfixes and regulatory features that were released in previous cumulative updates. This cumulative update replaces previously released cumulative updates. You should always install the latest cumulative update. It may be necessary to… Continue Reading rstefanetti’s Article on...
NAV 2018 CU 12 has been released – Roberto Stefanetti NAV & Business Central Blog
Cumulative Update 12 includes all application and platform hotfixes and regulatory features that have been released for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2018. The cumulative update is intended mainly for solutions that are experiencing the problems described in the Knowledge Base article linked to below. However, you are advised to always keep your solution updated with the latest cumulative… Continue Reading rstefanetti’s Article...