#msdyn365bc Allow Debugging in Business Central.
Hi Readers, There are certain areas in business central, which cannot be debugged. In this article we will discuss about what is allowed for debugging in business central and how you can save your secret code while writing business central AppSource extension. This video describes regarding Allow Debugging in Business Central. Video covers – Resource Exposure Policy.Debug Console.NonDebuggable… Continue...
#msdyn365bc – Debugging in Business Central for Beginners.
Hi Readers, In this article we will discuss about debugging with Business Central. This video describes regarding debugging for dummies. Video covers – Setting Required for Debugging in #msdyn365bc. Attach Profile. Debugging Setting for launch.json. Variables. Watch. Call Stack. Debugger Window. Setting up Debugger Point. Demo Video – Let me know your views in comment to this article....
A Beginner’s Guide to Creating JSON Files in #msdyn365bc.
Hi Readers, In this article we will discuss about How to write a Json file in #msdyn365bc. Demo Video – Let me know your views in comment to this article. Regards,Saurav Dhyaniwww.sauravdhyani.com Continue Reading Saurav Dhyani’s Article on their blog A Beginner’s Guide to Creating JSON Files in #msdyn365bc. msdyn365bc, #jsonfile, #downloadJson, #json Blog Syndicated with Saurav Dhyani’s...
#msdyn365bc: Creating Custom Email Subject.
Hi Readers, In this article we will discuss about How to modify Email Subject. Video covers – Identifying event to customize Email Subject Line. Subscribe the event to customize Email Subject. Demo Video – Let me know your views in comment to this article. Regards,Saurav Dhyaniwww.sauravdhyani.com Continue Reading Saurav Dhyani’s Article on their blog #msdyn365bc: Creating Custom Email...
REST APIs and the importance of Versioning.
A REST API (also known as RESTful API) is an application programming interface that conforms to the constraints of REST architecture and it’s one of the main building block for integration between applicartions running in the cloud (but not only). In a traditional Dynamics 365 Business Central project, it’s quite common to work with APIs for integrations and usually you can have the… Continue Reading...
Mastering Object Prefixes in MS Dynamics 365 Business Central.
Hi Readers, In this article we will discuss about why object and field prefix are mandatory in business central. This video also covers what is the right way to setup prefix in business central extension. Demo Video – Let me know your views in comment to this article. Regards,Saurav Dhyaniwww.sauravdhyani.com Continue Reading Saurav Dhyani’s Article on their blog Mastering Object Prefixes in MS Dynamics...
What is opened in my #msdyn365bc Browser Tab.
Hi Readers, With latest version of business central you get more details about the tab in the browser. The browser provides details of page that is opened. Demo Video – Let me know your views in comment to this article. Regards,Saurav Dhyaniwww.sauravdhyani.com Continue Reading Saurav Dhyani’s Article on their blog What is opened in my #msdyn365bc Browser Tab. msdyn365bc, #al, #browsertab,...
Simplify Navigation: Share Readable Deep Links in #msdyn365bc to Pages and Records.
Hi Readers, With Business Central #msdyn365bc, sharing links is getting better day by day. With latest release links are shared with a great and meaningful text, as discussed in below video. Demo Video – Let me know your views in comment to this article. Regards,Saurav Dhyaniwww.sauravdhyani.com Continue Reading Saurav Dhyani’s Article on their blog Simplify Navigation: Share Readable Deep Links in #msdyn365bc...
What is planned for Business Central Wave 1 2024 release
As we are gearing up for new release of business central and already the buzz is started for new version. Here listing few upcoming features which I am looking forward in new version. Copilot and AI innovation One of the hot topics in market and lot of new features are revolved around this innovation such as Introduce Power Automate Copilot integration with Business Central
#msdyn365bc – Using Different GL Accounts for Payables and Receivables.
Hi Readers, In this article we will discuss about new feature to use different G/L Account for Payables and Receivables. This video describes how to use this feature in business central #msdyn365bc. Demo Video – Let me know your views in comment to this article. Regards,Saurav Dhyaniwww.sauravdhyani.com Continue Reading Saurav Dhyani’s Article on their blog #msdyn365bc – Using Different GL Accounts...
Dynamics 365 Business Central: transfer environments between Microsoft Entra tenants
Starting from today, it’s possible to transfer a Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS tenant to a different tenant without opening a support request to Microsoft. If you check the Admin Center, you will find a new Environment Transfer action: After clicking on this action, you can select the environment(s) to be transferred, specify the Entra tenant ID of the destination tenant, choose a… Continue Reading demiliani’s...
#msdyn365bc – Setting New Output Folder for AL Project Build Files.
Hi Readers, In this article we will discuss about how to save AL Extensions app files in a different folder. This video describes regarding How to change the default path to generate AL app files for the build process of AL Extension. By default, Extension (app) file is generated in the same path where extension is stored. Demo Video – Let me know your views in comment to this article....
Audit Dynamics 365 Business Central operations in Microsoft Purview: what is it?
Some days ago Microsoft announced the upcoming new features for the new products wave and also Dynamics 365 Business Central is on the list and you can read more about the upcoming planned features for 2024 Wave 1 release here. One of the announced features that has generated quite a lot of confusion is the following: In 2024 release wave 1, auditable events occurring in Dynamics 365… Continue Reading demiliani’s Article...
Microsoft Dynamics 365 2024 Release Wave 1 plan for Business Central
Microsoft just released the plans for the next major release wave. I’m not going to explain what they mean with “waves” anymore – I did that in length in one of my previous posts (Microsoft Dynamics 365 2023 Release Wave 2 plan for Business Central (waldo.be)). Spoiler: not a fan! I have a hunch that the content that I will be sharing is not going to be 100% complete. Two reasons for…...
Cómo Business Central te ayuda a cumplir con la CSRD y los criterios ESG
La sostenibilidad se ha convertido en un factor clave para el éxito de las empresas en el siglo XXI. Los consumidores, los inversores y los reguladores exigen cada vez más que las organizaciones sean responsables y transparentes sobre su impacto ambiental, social y de gobernanza (ESG). Para ello, es necesario contar con herramientas que faciliten la recopilación, el análisis y la… Continue Reading Javier.Armesto’s Article...
#msdyn365bc – IntelliSense Smarter Method Signature Recommendations.
Hi Readers, In this article we will discuss about how IntelliSense is getting smarter with every release. With Every version #intellisense is getting smarter day by day. With latest release the signature is getting updated. < p style=”color: black;font-size: medium;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;text-indent: 0px;text-transform: none”> Demo Video – Let...
List all Azure Functions with older runtime with Powershell
When you create an Azure Function app, the runtime is responsible for executing function code on the underlying WebJobs SDK host. Azure Functions currently supports two versions of the runtime host: 4.x: Recommended runtime version for functions in all languages. 1.x: Supported only for C# apps that must use .NET Framework. This version is in maintenance mode, with enhancements… Continue Reading demiliani’s Article on...
#msdyn365bc 2023 Release Wave 2 – 126th #bcopendiscussion.
Hi Readers, During 126’th #bcopendiscussion we discussed about following topics. Video covers – We explore a range of topics, including: Use different general ledger accounts for payables, receivables. Supporting more countries and regions. Iceland localization app – delocalization. Use the built-in rich text editor to enter data. Add a new FieldGroup to an existing table. Get inlay hints in source…...
Azure AI Document Intelligence: Procesamiento Automatizado de Documentos
Introducción La era digital ha transformado la gestión de documentos. Azure AI Document Intelligence, anteriormente conocido como Form Recognizer, es un servicio de Microsoft Azure que utiliza inteligencia artificial para procesar documentos eficientemente. Este artículo veremos ,de manera introductoria, sus características, modelos pre-entrenados y aplicaciones prácticas. <h1… Continue Reading Javier.Armesto’s Article...
A new beta certification: MB-820: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Developer
The Beta exam for the Business Central Developer certification has finally been released, it was announced some time ago. The exam is already available, discounted for the first 300 participants, for the evaluation it is necessary to wait a few days as always, after the results have been collected and the score weighted. Today you need at least a score of 700 to pass it. I have collected some… Continue Reading rs’s Article...
Dynamics 365 Business Central: how can I disable Copilot for everyone?
Dynamics 365 Business Central now has embedded generative AI features powered by Azure OpenAI and this is something cool that I encourage everyone to try. When individual Copilot capabilities are released in Dynamics 365 Business Central during minor updates, these capabilities are optional until the next major update. To turn on or off these features (like for example bank reconciliation… Continue Reading demiliani’s...
Azure Basic Load Balancer: it’s time to plan the update to Standard.
Azure Load Balancer is a high-performance, ultra-low-latency Layer 4 load-balancing service (inbound and outbound) for all UDP and TCP protocols. It’s built to handle millions of requests per second while ensuring your solution is highly available. With Azure Load Balancer, you can scale your applications and create highly available services. Load balancer supports both inbound and… Continue Reading demiliani’s...
Dynamics 365 Business Central: introducing the Azure File Share module
I wrote in the past some articles about how it’s important to use Azure Storage for storing files in a Dynamics 365 Business Central project (avoid using blobs and media as much as possible) and I’ve talked about the differences between Azure Blob Storage and Azure File Share, also providing a solution for mapping an Azure File Share as a local drive for data exchange with Dynamics 365… Continue Reading...
🤖New Video: Business Central Digital Voucher , Configuracion y uso.
Nuevo Video en mi canal de YouTube. ¿Sabes configurar fácil los comprobantes digitales? En el siguiente video te cuento en cinco minutos como hacerlo. Te leo en los comentarios. Mantente Actualizado No olvides suscribirte a mi canal para estar al tanto de las últimas novedades en tecnología y negocios. ¡Tu apoyo significa mucho y ayuda a que sigamos creando contenido… Continue Reading Javier.Armesto’s Article on their blog...
Monitoring your Azure OpenAI usage (part 2)
In a previous post I wrote about how you can monitor your Azure OpenAI usage with Azure Monitor and Application Insights. Monitoring Azure OpenAI usage is an important practice to adopt and if you plan to start using generative AI features with Dynamics 365 Business Central, please also activate AI monitoring. In this post I want to talk about another interesting (and very easy to setup)… Continue Reading demiliani’s...
🤖New Video: Introducción al Proyecto Sophia de Microsoft
Nuevo Video en mi canal de YouTube. ¿Estás listo para sumergirte en el futuro de la inteligencia artificial en los negocios? ¡No busques más! En mi último video, junto a Circe, exploramos el fascinante «Proyecto Sophia» de Microsoft, una revolucionaria aplicación de negocios basada en IA que está cambiando las reglas del juego. Innovación y Soluciones con IA El… Continue Reading Javier.Armesto’s Article on their blog 🤖New...
Azure Functions and Data Parallelism: things to know.
When working with code on some complex data operations, sometimes to improve performances it’s possible to use code techniques like parallel programming and/or data parallelism. Data parallelism refers to scenarios in which the same operation is performed concurrently (in parallel) on elements in a source collection or array. In data parallel operations, the source collection is… Continue Reading demiliani’s Article...
Digital Vouchers en Business Central: Innovación y Eficiencia en la Contabilidad
Introducción a la Era Digital en la Contabilidad La implementación de vouchers digitales en Business Central representa un avance significativo en el mundo de la contabilidad. Este cambio, presentado en el evento de lanzamiento de Business Central el pasado año 2023 , está disponible desde diciembre 23 y tiene su origen por necesidades de cumplimiento en Dinamarca donde se… Continue Reading Javier.Armesto’s Article on...
Power Automate: retrieving the first item of a recordset avoiding a loop.
In Dynamics 365 Business Central it’s quite common to do operations in AL code for filtering a set of records and then retrieving a value of the first record of the filtered recordset. Something like in the following code, where we filter the Item table for retrieving the first item with Unit Price greater than 1000: Let’s imagine now to use Power Automate to do the same thing. We can… Continue Reading...
Dynamics 365 Business Central: how the BCApps repo is moving?
Can you see the image on top of this post? They’re not fireworks of the new year 2024 but instead something different… I think that you already know that Microsoft embraced the open source initiative also for Dynamics 365 Business Central. Everyone can collaborate on it and the BCApps repo in GitHub is the place to go. This repository contains the source code for several Business… Continue Reading...
Dynamics 365 Business Central: Isolated Storage and SecretText support.
With Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 2 release (version 23) Microsoft introduced a new data type called SecretText. This new data type is useful to protect secrets in AL code from being revealed through debugging (a SecretText variable is always displayed as <HiddenValue> during a debugging session) and I’ve talked about it in this post. The SecretText data type is in my opinion an… Continue Reading...
Transformando la Conciliación Bancaria con Copilot en Microsoft Business Central: Breve guía paso a paso
Vamos a ver cómo en pocos pasos podemos estar probando y evaluando la funcionalidad de conciliación bancaria con Copilot. La conciliación bancaria es un proceso fundamental para cualquier empresa, ya que permite comparar y ajustar las transacciones financieras registradas en los libros contables con las que aparecen en el extracto bancario. Con la ayuda de Copilot, este proceso… Continue Reading Javier.Armesto’s Article on...
Azure Functions: .NET 7 and .NET 8 local debugging bug on Visual Studio Code.
This is a very quick post signaling a bug that makes me spending hours of troubleshooting. If you’re developing Azure Functions with Visual Studio Code and .NET 7 or .NET 8, when you create a new Azure Function Isolated app project the assembly Microsoft.Azure.Functions.Worker.Sdk version 1.16.x is automatically referenced in your .csproj file: If you try to debug the Azure Function… Continue Reading demiliani’s...
Transformando la Conciliación Bancaria con Copilot en Microsoft Business Central (Introducción)
En el mundo de las finanzas, la conciliación bancaria puede ser una tarea tediosa y que consume mucho tiempo. Afortunadamente, la tecnología está aquí para hacer nuestras vidas más fáciles, y en este caso, Microsoft Business Central ha dado un gran paso adelante con su nueva capacidad: «Bank account reconciliation assistance with Copilot». ¿Qué es Copilot? Es un asistente… Continue Reading Javier.Armesto’s Article on their...
Happy New Year 2024!
And also another year it’s coming to an end. To everyone reading this blog, to everyone of you I met in person and online during this year, to everyone I had the pleasure to work with, to all those who simply read this post just because it appears in front of their eyes… I wish you a great start to the new year , full of energy and desire to grow. See you in 2024, more energized than… Continue Reading...
🚀New Video: Configuración Fácil de Importación de Movimientos Bancarios en Business Central
Nuevo Video en mi canal de YouTube. En mi video de hoy, te mostrare cómo configurar de manera sencilla y eficiente la importación de movimientos bancarios en Business Central. Este tutorial paso a paso está diseñado para ayudarte a gestionar tus finanzas con mayor precisión y rapidez. ¿Qué aprenderás en este video? 1⃣ Cómo acceder a Business Central y localizar la… Continue Reading Javier.Armesto’s Article on their...
Azure Logic Apps: securing HTTP Triggers with Microsoft Entra ID authentication
Lots of time ago I wrote a post about securing the HTTP triggered workflows created with Power Automate. You can read this post here. When you create a workflow with Power Automate or Azure Logic Apps and you use the “When an HTTP request is received” trigger, a public url to invoke the workflow via an HTTP request is automatically generated when saving the flow. The url has the… Continue Reading demiliani’s Article on...
Speed up your automated tests without really doing anything..
Here’s a Christmas present from me for you: a short, but may be fore some people a very liberating post on how to speed up your tests in your pipeline, without doing anything “real” ;-). The problem We have made “tests” mandatory in our company. What that means: every single pullrequest is being code reviewed, and in the code review, we check for either a changed or new tests. That has…...
Dynamics 365 Business Central: new additions in Excel Layouts reporting.
One of the reporting features I like the most in Dynamics 365 Business Central is the possibility to create Excel Layout reports. Excel Layout reports are essentially reports based on Excel workbooks, with all the fancy stuffs of Microsoft excel available. With Excel Layouts, when you create a new report first you define the report dataset in code (dataitems, fields etc.) Then you design a… Continue Reading demiliani’s...
Dynamics 365 Business Central: remember to delete the Media orphans.
In all my trainings and sessions I always say that when you have a blob file to import in Dynamics 365 Business Central (image, pdf, etc), you need to stop for a minute and think if you can store it outside of the database. For this scope, Dynamics 365 Business Central has a nice Azure Blob Storage module that permits you to store your files in a blob container on Azure Storage. In this… Continue Reading demiliani’s...
Monitoring your Azure OpenAI usage
I want to continue the saga of “using Azure OpenAI in a professional way” by talking a bit about a practice that you should always act: monitoring the AI usage. As said in previous posts, using Azure OpenAI in a real world is not just sending prompts to a model, but you need to carefully handle requests and monitor the underlying deployments. Azure OpenAI uses Azure Monitor under the hood… Continue Reading...
Dynamics 365 & Power Platform Conferences in 2024
We are close to the end of this year, and we mostly have important conference dates for the following year. I would like to have all Dynamics 365 (and/or Power Platform) conferences in one place, with all dates planned for 2024. So, you can find them here and start planning your attendance as most of them have early bird: Days of Knowledge Nordic, Odense, Denmark (April 12 – 13,… Continue Reading Marko Totovic’s Article on...
Dynamics 365 Business Central: Microsoft standard AI features and prompts.
The new Dynamics 365 Business Central 23.2 release unlocks the new Copilot Developer Toolkit (more info here) for creating generative-AI experiences inside the ERP on online sandboxes. The advantages of using this toolkit include: Designing solutions that adhere to Responsible AI principles. Creating a unified Copilot experience. Accelerating time to market. You can now spin… Continue Reading demiliani’s Article on their...
Dynamics 365 Business Central: Power BI and the “You do not have a Power BI account” error.
Power BI embedded is one of the greatest feature in Dynamics 365 Business Central because enables users to create Power BI reports, scorecards, and dashboards based on Business Central data. Users can view these from their Power BI workspaces, but also from the Business Central client. After the upgrade to Dynamics 365 Business Central version 23 I saw some customers start receiving this… Continue Reading demiliani’s...
Starting my first year as an MCT Regional Lead for Italy
There’s no better way to finish the year than receiving a great news… Yesterday (after a busy day at work) I’ve received a communication from Microsoft saying that I will be awarded as an MCT Regional Lead for Italy starting from January 01, 2024. MCT Regional Leads are a selected group of MCTs worldwide that provide connections inside the community and support to local MCTs. This… Continue Reading...
Azure Logic Apps Standard: introducing the Workflow Assistant (AI)
Yes… AI is coming also in Azure Logic Apps Designer! If you’re developing an Azure Logic Apps Standard workflow, in the designer editor you will start seeing a new Assistant action: The workflow assistant (actually in public preview) is a chat interface to answer any questions about Azure Logic Apps, from directly within designer. You can also use it to describe existing workflow or… Continue Reading...
Automatic Alerts when BC Job Queue fails (Low-Code)
In today’s fast-paced business environment, it is crucial to have efficient and reliable systems in place to manage and monitor critical processes. One such essential component in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is the Job Queue. In this blog post, we will discuss what the Business Central Job Queue and Telemetry are and how to implement a low-code solution for automatic alerts when a… Continue Reading...
Dynamics 365 Business Central: Copilot, Azure OpenAI and real-world enterprise usage.
We are entering a new era of AI, one that is fundamentally changing how we relate to and benefit from technology. With the convergence of chat interfaces and large language models (LLM) you can now ask for what you want in natural language and the technology is smart enough to answer, create or take action. In the last months Microsoft introduced the concept of Copilot (your everyday AI… Continue Reading demiliani’s...
A BC Telemetry story … Monitor your Telemetry Usages!
I recently had a very scary thing happening on our Telemetry setup, that I would have never expected, and was glad I was able to catch it in time. TL;DR Any extra action on your Business Central environment can cause an explosion of telemetry signals, which possibly turns into an insane Azure bill. Therefore, it’s important to monitor and analyze your Telemetry usage, so you can take… Continue Reading waldo’s...
Adaptarse o Quedarse Atrás: Qué Nos Enseña ‘Entrevista con el Vampiro’ Sobre la IA
Algo esta cambiando En este articulo quiero expresar mi opinion sobre algo que nos toca de cerca: cómo la IA generativa, con joyas como GPT y Copilot, está cambiando el juego en el mundo de los negocios. Es como una vuelta de tuerca moderna a «Entrevista con el Vampiro», pero aquí los protagonistas son las tecnologías emergentes y nosotros, los que trabajamos con ellas. Por… Continue Reading Javier.Armesto’s Article on...