How to enhance Business Central Role centers with the power of Widget Containers and jQuery
How to enhance Business Central Role centers with the power of Widget Containers and jQuery Using the ControlAddins and power of jQuery it is possible to add container widgets to roles centers to extend their functionality, using the page parts in which to publish the widgets. Surely, this is interesting for demos as other products do the same thing, giving the idea that Business Central… Continue Reading rstefanetti’s...
Update apps installed from Appsource in Business Central Online with Powershell
Update apps installed from Appsource in Business Central Online with Powershell This post will show you how you can update apps installed from the Marketplace in Business Central Cloud with Powershell. In the example below, powershell will be used which will invoke the APIs needed to update the APPs installed from the marketplace. For convenience I added a couple of functions to the… Continue Reading rstefanetti’s Article...
Publishing apps to a Business Central Online by Powershell
Publishing apps to a Business Central Online by Powershell #1 Kinds of Apps There are 2 kinds of apps: AppSource Apps and Per Tenant Extensions (PTEs). These apps can be installed in two kinds of environments: Sandbox and Production. In Production, AppSource Apps are installed in the global scope (Global) and Per Tenant Extensions are installed in the Tenant Scope (PTE). In Sandbox… Continue Reading rstefanetti’s Article...
Delegated Admins for Business Central Online
Delegated Admins for Business Central Online LINKS Improvements for the delegated administrators – Dynamics 365 Release Plan Important Some of the functionality described in this release plan has not been released. Delivery timelines may change and projected functionality may not be released (see Microsoft policy). Learn more: What’s new and planned Enabled for Public preview General availability Admins, makers, marketers,...
MCT – Microsoft Certified Trainer, Finally!
Hi, finally,I have been recognized as a Microsoft Certified Trainer in Business Applications; I had been following this certification for some time, I finally decided to activate it. The Microsoft Official Courses (MOC) will certainly help to improve the delivery of the courses, obviously I will participate in the improvement program of the courses themselves, as already done for Docs in… Continue Reading rstefanetti’s...
Corso online sviluppatori Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
Nuova edizione del corso aggiornato alle ultime novità di BC2021Wave1 Date Corso 19 mag 2021, 09:00 – 21 mag 2021 Dettaglio Corso e Link iscrizione Corso di Formazione Sviluppatori per Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. PROSSIMO CORSO 19/20/21 MAGGIO Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Centra l è progettato per le aziende che cercano una soluzione di gestione aziendale all-in-one facile da usare e adattare. Collega dati...
How to set Workdate to Today in Cronus Demo Environments
How to set Workdate to Today in Cronus Demo Environments In demo environments (Cronus) not licensed Demo Company the workdate is set automatically by reading from the recorded ledger entries. This can be annoying if I want to use these environments for testing models or prototypes. Even in a non-activated PRODUCTION environments, it is the same thing. The workdate can always be changed… Continue Reading rstefanetti’s...
Barcode in Business Central Cloud!
BC2021W1 with a “Cloud Barcode” system Others have already posted about it, since it has always been a hot topic (since 2018!) I also set an example of use. Today Business Central 2021 Wave 1 natively provides the management of barcodes in reports (functionality announced long ago and released today). Barcode Ready-to Go Code39, Code128, EAN8, EAN13 … About Barcode in Business… Continue Reading rstefanetti’s...
Webinar Business Central 2021 Wave1 – Nuove Funzionalità, 15 Aprile 2021
Webinar Business Central 2021 Wave1 – Nuove Funzionalità 15 Aprile 2021 -10-12 AM Evento di Sme.Up – Soluzioni EDP Evento dedicato ai rilasci e alle funzionalità dell’ultima release 2021 dell’ERP Dynamics 365 Business Central. AGENDA WEBINAR LIVE DALLE ORE 10 ALLE ORE 12 del 15 APRILE – Dynamics 365 BC: l’ERP evoluto, integrato, innovativo e in cloud di Microsoft a cura di Marco… Continue Reading...
Business Central 2021 Wave 1 released
Business Central 2021 Wave 1 released “Nuntio vobis gaudium magnum”: Business Central 2021 Wave1 was released a few hours ago. You can already try it now: Cloud (Production and Sandboxes) Docker Artifacts DVD distribution Cloud Sandbox Have fun! L’articolo Business Central 2021 Wave 1 released proviene da Roberto Stefanetti Blog. Continue Reading rstefanetti’s Article on their blog Business Central 2021 Wave 1 released...
Business Central – Import Item Attributes from .CSV File
Business Central – Import Item Attributes from .CSV File In this short post I point out a utility to import item attributes from a .csv file after modifying them in Excel. The system uses a page and an XMLport to import the .CSV file, it could be convenient to use it given the non-linear structure of the attributes management, or build a structure with RapidStart package. Items Attribute… Continue Reading...
Business Central 2021 Wave1 Preview – testing some features – Part 2
Business Central 2021 Wave1 Preview – testing some features – Part 2 In this second part of the post, we talk about some features released and present in this Preview Release of Business Central 2021 Wave1 (the most interesting ones…), others are only mentioned. There are obviously many others too, which we will see immediately after the product launch (as I always do). “Availability… Continue Reading rstefanetti’s Article...
Business Central 2021 Wave1 Preview Environments available – Part 1
Business Central 2021 Wave1 Preview Environments available – Part 1 Great news! Starting today, (March 11, 2021), Business Central Wave1 2021 preview environments are available. “ANNOUNCING: Preview environments for Business Central 2021 release wave1”. Try it out today! We are pleased to announce global roll-out of the preview environments for Business Central 2021 release wave 1… Continue Reading rstefanetti’s Article on...
BUSINESS CENTRAL 2021 WAVE1 LAUNCH EVENT, April 13, 2021
BUSINESS CENTRAL 2021 WAVE1 LAUNCH EVENT, April 13, 2021 Dynamics 365 Business Central Virtual Launch Event ANNOUNCED THE VIRTUAL LAUNCH EVENT FOR APRIL 16, below you can find the link for registration, subscribe! Join us for the Dynamics 365 Business Central Launch Event, a digital event. We are bringing the latest innovations for Business Central to you via a new all access digital… Continue Reading rstefanetti’s Article...
Custom images in Business Central List Pages
CUSTOM IMAGES IN BUSINESS CENTRAL LIST PAGES The ideal would be a mediaset field, unfortunately, the display from the web client in the lists is not perfect, you need to use brickview to view; in this case, we can still use the old technology based on blob fields (deprecated). “Hi, do you know if there is any way of displaying Mediaset fields in list pages without using brickview?” What is… Continue Reading rstefanetti’s...
Business Central oAuth2 Authentication
Business Central oAuth2 Authentication Steps to activate the OAuth2 authentication method, this type of connection can be used to connect to Business Central WebServices-APIs; it will soon be the only method available as access with WebService key is deprecated. The system to access the exposed services uses a token issued by the access procedure (see details at the links below), it is… Continue Reading rstefanetti’s...
DYNAMICS NAV TABLE RELATIONSHIP DIAGRAMS
“Browse through the Microsoft Dynamics NAV (Navision) Data ModelGreat-looking table relationship diagrams which will help you learn the Dynamics NAV (Navision) Architecture” interesting site related to table relationship diagrams, updated to NAV 2018 and very useful.I want to point it out because it could be useful. DynamicsDocs.com Have you ever thought how much easier would working with Microsoft Dynamics NAV be if you...
Business Central OnPremise – DotNet assembly integration in Microsoft AL
Business Central OnPremise – DotNet assemby integration in Microsoft AL This short post to show you how to use DotNet assemblies in Business Central OnPremise, it might be useful to declare and use them in Microsoft AL. STEPS First of all it is necessary to set the target in the app.json file, in this case is target is “OnPrem” (for Cloud (for Cloud/SaaS I will test Blazor shortly in a… Continue Reading rstefanetti’s...
Business Central Cloud renaming a PDF report using FileManagement.BLOBExport
Business Central Cloud renaming a PDF report using FileManagement.BLOBExport On the Business Central Cloud, to save a report in PDF format and change its name while saving, you can use a STREAM BLOB through the “Temp blob” codeunit. Once this is done, use the function then the BLOBExport function present in the “File Management” codeunit to export the report created with the… Continue Reading rstefanetti’s Article on their...
Business Central “View the last know error” page
Business Central “View the last know error” page Sometimes it can happen that Business Central does not report an error on the screen (or reports it minimally) making it difficult for the user to understand what went wrong or why a procedure was not successful. Without debugging in sandbox copy, etc. and without disturbing the partner, the tenant administrator, it is always possible to… Continue Reading rstefanetti’s...
Business Central 2021 Wave1 What’s New and Planned
Business Central 2021 Wave1 What’s New and Planned Always keeping in mind these notes: “Some of the functionality described in this release plan has not been released. Delivery timelines may change and projected functionality may not be released”, today the document “Business Central 2021 Wave1 What’s New and Planned” was made public. You can find all the features declared to date at… Continue Reading...
Business Central enhanced emails
Business Central enhanced emails This feature provides powerful and easy to set up email capabilities. It is possible to activate different scenarios such as support for multiple accounts, distribution groups and use better attachment management. It’s possible: – Activate different scenarios and assign them to different email accounts – Create manual emails – See the log of emails sent… Continue Reading...
Restoring environments in Business Central admin center
Restoring environments in Business Central admin center TOPICS Considerations and limitations Environments can only be restored if the customer has a paid Business Central subscription. Each environment can be restored up to 10 times in a calendar month. An environment can only be restored within the same Azure region and country (Business Central localization) as the original environment. A… Continue Reading rstefanetti’s...
Business Central “free to use” Graphical Scheduler
Business Central “free to use” Graphical Scheduler APP by Insight Works APP TOPICS Graphical Scheduler is an app for Business Central (free to use to date) that can be used to view and schedule on the time line (a Gantt Analysis) production orders, resources allocated to both Assembly and Orders, reading also from various other data sources and the possibility of activating a customized… Continue Reading rstefanetti’s...
Business Central Functional Consultant Certification – how to
Business Central Functional Consultant Certification – how to As you know, the exam and certification paths are available. There are 3 ways to get certified – I already know everything in this case take the exam immediately (and hope to pass it!) – Self-education – Take a course with a trainer Discounts available to date: Exam Replay
Modifica del “tipo documento” in fattura registrata
Quali sono le novità nella fatturazione elettronica dal 1° Gennaio 2021? Le principali novità riguardano la modifica del tracciato XML, con nuovi “Codici Natura e Tipo Documento“ Come faccio a cambiare il tipo documento prima dell’invio di una fattura registrata? Qualora fosse necessario cambiarlo? es su Fatture Registrate Semplice, andare in “Fatture Registrate“, aprire la… Continue Reading...
BUSINESS CENTRAL WAREHOUSE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (WMS)
BUSINESS CENTRAL WAREHOUSE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (WMS) WMS DEFINITIONS General Definition “A warehouse management system (WMS) is a software application, designed to support warehouse or distribution center management and staff. They facilitate management in their daily planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling the utilization of available resources, to move and store… Continue Reading rstefanetti’s Article on...
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year everyone! This hard and unhappy year finally comes to an end, let’s hope the next one is better! For next year, we think “positive” (but not in the sense of the “Covid buffer”, for Covid my family has already given enough this year…) I leave you the list of the most popular posts in the year, they could be useful to someone. Most popular posts in 2020…...
BUSINESS CENTRAL CLOUD – HOW-TO UPDATE INSTALLED APPS
BUSINESS CENTRAL CLOUD – HOW-TO UPDATE INSTALLED APPS App updates on AppSource are automatically updated in two ways: • Automatically by Microsoft with each monthly platform update • From the partner or customer (anticipating the automatic monthly update) by going to the Admin Center (specific Apps section) and in case of availability of an update updating from there. Currently, it is… Continue Reading rstefanetti’s...
Add Bookmarks via AL Code
Add Bookmarks via AL Code Using the bookmark icon , you can add an action that opens a page or report from the navigation menu of your Role Center. The bookmark icon is shown in the top right corner of a page and also in the Tell Me window where you can efficiently bookmark multiple pages or reports. If a bookmark already exists for the page, then the icon is dark, and the tooltip says… Continue Reading rstefanetti’s...
Business Central Virtual Entities and CDS
Business Central Virtual Entities and CDS God morning, It’s been a while since I wrote and I disappeared from the communities because I was sick, Covid unfortunately hit me too. After about 17 days of severe illness, I am slowly recovering, now I feel better. Covid is a disease that I do NOT recommend to anyone, it is really bad, at least in my case; I am still positive but I hope to negativize… Continue Reading...
DIRECTIONS4PARTNERS VIRTUAL CONFERENCE 2020 …will start tomorrow morning!
DIRECTIONS4PARTNERS VIRTUAL CONFERENCE 2020 …will start tomorrow morning! Directions For Partners Virtual Event 2020 will start tomorrow, just a little away! Below you will find all the sessions and the list of those that I consider most interesting (obviously “De Gustibus non disputandum est”, “Giulio Cesare”). It will definitely be a hit! See you there in the morning! MY BEST SESSIONS… Continue Reading...
Business Central – BCContainer Wizard Steps
Good morning,today we present this short video related to the BCContainer Wizard, a useful tool (powershell based) to use for those who want to start with BC on Docker. This Wizard produces a script (which obviously can also be written by hand …) with the necessary commands to create the docker; the system reads Artifacts, Sandboxes and also manages older versions of NAV. The file produced at… Continue Reading...
Business Central: the “VAT Group” Concepts
Business Central: the “VAT Group” Concepts What is Group VAT Management? VAT groups are formed of individual companies, ideally to lift the VAT burden within the group. From the perspective of VAT reporting, authorities treat a VAT group as one company, which means one VAT Return submission from the group with “aggregated data for the entire group”. You can join one or more businesses in… Continue Reading rstefanetti’s...
Business Central Execute Queries from Pages
Business Central Execute Queries from Pages With the QueryCategory property we can execute a query object from a page (also available in Smartlists) by defining a query in AL; it is possible to declare with a comma separated list where the object can be used, in practice it is added to the list of objects published in the SmartList. Very powerful and useful for those who often use queries… Continue Reading rstefanetti’s...
Business Central 2020 Wave2 Launch Virtual Event, October 21 (Free to Attend)
October 21, 2020 at 11:00 ET | 17:00 CEST | 22:00 ICT With this virtual event Business Central 2020 Wave2 will be officially presented, there are many news. About Event You’ll hear from product leaders as they share with you the latest innovations and capabilities as part of the Business Central 2020 release wave 2. We will get up close and personal-outlining the latest product direction and what… Continue Reading...
Business Central Specific Cost
Business Central Specific Cost About Specific Cost (general) The costing method determines if an actual or a budgeted value is capitalized and used in the cost calculation. Together with the posting date and sequence, the costing method also influences how the cost flow is recorded. The specific cost criterion aims to individually evaluate the inventories, purchased or produced, determining the… Continue Reading...
Business Central in Teams
Business Central and Microsoft Teams: “Share, view, and act on your business data” • Make faster decisions by sharing Dynamics 365 Business Central data in Microsoft Teams conversations. • This app connects Microsoft Teams to your business data in Dynamics 365 Business Central, so you can quickly share details with your team and respond faster to inquiries. • Paste a link to any Business… Continue Reading...
Business Central 2020 Release Wave 2 SaaS is available!
Business Central 2020 Release Wave 2 SaaS is available! Great day today! Today October 1 2020, “Business Central 2020 Release Wave 2” is available on Cloud (SaaS) and on Docker distributions and soon the On-premise installation DVD will be available. All what’s new for this October’s release can be found on the ms-docs page (below the link), in next post I will show you some… Continue Reading rstefanetti’s Article on their...
Business Central 2020 wave2, more databases for more business branches!
From the next Business Central 2020 Wave2 (October release), you can have Business Central with an unlimited number of databases; especially for multinationals, with a database per country (one for branch ad example)… Business Value Having more environments gives you new opportunities. For example, you can create more business branches, move into more countries or regions, or expand within… Continue Reading...
How to grant external accountant access with Dynamics 365 Business Central
How to grant external accountant access with Dynamics 365 Business CentralAbout licenseOne of the license types for Business Central is the External Accountant license.If you use an external accountant to manage your books and financial reporting, you can invite them to your Business Central so they can work with you on your fiscal data. Once your accountant has gained access to your… Continue Reading rstefanetti’s Article...
Business Central 2020 Wave 2 Preview – Testing some new features
Business Central 2020 Wave 2 Preview – Testing some new featuresSince the Wave2 2020 preview has been released and is public, I want to show you some features; the preview does not currently contain all the features of the final Wave2, others will be released later as scheduled.For now, I report only a few, I leave you to discover the others.MSDYN365BC2020WAVE2 PREVIEW Testing some released… Continue Reading rstefanetti’s...
Preview environments for Business Central 2020 release wave 2
Announcing #MSDyn365BC preview environments for Business Central 2020 release wave 2.Try out the new functionality today!Learn how to prepare for major updates with preview environments (note that Spain is still pending/not live yet)https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/administration/preview-environments..and Try on BC Cloud!Thanks Microsoft!#MSDYN365BC … Continue Reading rstefanetti’s...
Business Central – The Cloud Data Migration Tool
Business Central – The Cloud Data Migration Tool The Cloud Data Migration Tool Customers running their workloads on-premises can migrate to Business Central online by running the cloud migration tool; the same tool can also be used to set up a connection to the intelligent cloud but still remain on-premises. “Data Migration Tool” page link
Repurposed Role Centers in Business Central 2020 Wave 2
Repurposed Role Centers in Business Central 2020 Wave 2 About Role Centers The Role Center is the home page, a landing page that is designed for the needs of a specific role in an organization. Depending on your role, the Role Center gives you an overview of the business, your department, or your personal tasks. “*** With this release, we made the list of available roles clearer. GREAT! Role… Continue Reading rstefanetti’s...
DIRECTIONS4PARTNERS VIRTUAL EVENT 2020!
DIRECTIONS4PARTNERS VIRTUAL EVENT 2020! “Directions EMEA 2020 and Directions ASIA 2020 in one virtual event!” “3-5 November 2020 – Virtual Worldwide Event” Registrations: September 1st WHAT WILL THIS VIRTUAL CONFERENCE LOOK LIKE? The virtual Directions4Partners 2020 will be open and easy to attend for our entire partner community. As you are used to at Directions conferences, this… Continue Reading rstefanetti’s Article...
How to receive more items than ordered in Business Central
How to receive more items than ordered in Business Central SCENARIO When you receive more goods than ordered, you may want to keep them rather than cancel the receipt. For example, it might be cheaper to keep the excess in inventory than to return it, or the supplier might offer a discount to accept it. “How-To” configure excess receipts You need to define a percentage by which to allow the… Continue Reading rstefanetti’s...
Intercompany in Business Central
Intercompany in Business Central About Intercompany functionality The Intercompany functionality lets you do business with your subsidiary and internal partner organizations in the same way as you engage with your external vendors and customers. You enter intercompany transaction information only once in the appropriate documents, mapping facilities for the chart of accounts and dimensions help… Continue Reading...
Security Filters in Business Central
Security Filters in Business Central Business Central Security’s security system allows you to control the objects that a user can access within each database or environment. For each user, you can specify whether you want to allow reading, editing or inserting data in the selected database objects. You can specify which records are stored in the tables that each user is allowed to access. This… Continue Reading...
OData Web Services – About Using Filter Expressions
OData Web Services – About Using Filter Expressions I want to report some information on the use and properties of OData with Business Central, very useful and I would say indispensable if we use the Business Central Cloud environment. The Open Data Protocol (OData) is a web protocol that is designed for querying tabular data and provides you with an alternative to SOAP-based web… Continue Reading rstefanetti’s Article on...