LOCALIZZAZIONE ITALIANA DI BUSINESS CENTRAL
Localizzazione Italiana di Business Central La localizzazione italiana di Business Central estende la versione internazionale (W1) del prodotto (come avviene per tutte le altre localizzazioni), inserendomodificandoaggiungendo alcune funzionalità indispensabili per il corretto utilizzo del prodotto nel nostro paese. Questo supportocompatibilità è chiamato anche LFR —Local Financials… Continue Reading rstefanetti’s...
Automation Tool for Dynamics GP Management Reporter – Row Definition ( Auto Update MR Row Definition )
One of our customers requested to have their report definition of “Management Reporter” gets updated automatically whenever a change on the chart of accounts occurs. This can be simply automated by considering the “All Accounts” function of MR which by default retrieves all accounts to the row definition regardless of any criteria. A link will show up on the home page, on which you click and… Continue...
Dynamics 365 Business Central Sandbox and performance testing
During the last technical workshops done for Microsoft in Finland and Norway, I’ve discovered that many partners are doing (together with the customer) a lot of load testing and performance testing for their solutions and for the standard application in the online sandbox environment. Testing applications in the sandbox environment before moving them to the production environment is a good… Continue Reading...
Tip #65 | AppSourceCop & mandatoryPrefix
Today I was a bit puzzled by getting this error message and how to fix it. error AS0054: The AppSourceCop configuration must specify one of the following properties: ‘mandatorySuffix’, ‘mandatoryPrefix’, or ‘mandatoryAffixes’ Yes, you can google the message but that only brings you to pages that describe the message, not how to fix it. It appears to be easy so I wanted… Continue Reading Mark...
waldo.restapp
For a few weeks now, people have been asking “can I have the restapp you were showing” – well, here it is: https://github.com/waldo1001/waldo.restapp But that would be not much of a blogpost – would it ;-). Just an example… During NAVTechDays, I did 2 sessions: Development Methodologies for the future {Connect app}² (with Vjeko) In both sessions, I talked about the concept of… Continue Reading...
How to Create Assisted Setup -Business Central
As you aware that with new version of business central comes up breaking changes which actually change the way of writing few points like assisted setup and many more. Today we will see how to create assisted setup in wave 2 with new events. In this document have created one of the most simple assisted setup. Step 1 :- Create New table table 50100 “SetupTable” { … Continue Reading Ammolh Saallvi’s Article on...
MSDYN365BC 2019 Wave 2 Cumulative Update Summary For December 2019.
Hi All,Microsoft Have Released Cumulative Update for December 2019 for Business central 2019 Wave2 (15).Please find below the details of Cumulative Updates Released for Microsoft Business Central 2019 Wave 2(15).Below are the Links to Download the Latest Cumulative Update. Read Complete Article » Continue Reading Saurav Dhyani’s Article on their blog MSDYN365BC 2019 Wave 2 Cumulative Update Summary For December 2019. Hi All,...
AL Extensions – File Naming and Organizing
This is a blog that I wanted to write for quite a while, but it’s only until last week or so that I think I’ve found what I like to call, a “best practice” or if you will, a “Design Pattern”. What is this all about? With the move from C/AL to Visual Studio Code we also moved to file based instead of stored in database. This means we also have to give these files a name and we… Continue Reading Mark Brummel’s Article on...
Managing DotNET Dependencies on AppSource for Business Central
When you try to convert existing C/Side objects to AL the first attempts are typically done while scoping OnPrem. This gives an overview of the errors to be fixed w.o things like DotNET. In this phase you typically switch between C/Side and Visual Studio Code all the time fixing the errors one-by-one and reconverting. Once the errors are fixed the software can be tested and deployed… Continue Reading Mark Brummel’s Article...
Sessions from NAV TechDays – day 2
As I’ve promised a few days ago in my previous post, I’m completing the collection of all session from NAV TechDays 2019. Let’s see what we had in the second day of this amazing NAV/BC event: Leveraging the power of the cloud Build, test, deploy and deliver your app by one file NAV/BC for high demanding environments {Connect app}² Business Central… Continue Reading atotovic’s Article on their blog...
NAVTechDays 2019 – Final thoughts
It’s over – the week I’m always looking forward to for so long passes by in a blink of an eye: NAVTechDays. As Vjeko already shared the goodies – I will do so as well – joined with my final thoughts and some pictures ;-). I feel myself old and repetitive by saying this conference is “something else”. Just imagine: quality food: morning, noon and evening, quality (recorded) sessions...
Sessions from NAV TechDays – day 1
NAV TechDays 2019 has just finished a few days ago and I can say this was amazing event and again the biggest one – with 1452 attendees. As I promised the last year, I prepared session this time and made it together with an MVP Renato Fajdiga. I hope to see you next year again. In a meantime, all sessions from the first day are already published and I want to have all of them on the… Continue Reading atotovic’s Article on...
New book “Migrating applications to the cloud with Azure” finally released
While waiting to officially announce to the Dynamics 365 Business Central community our latest and biggest work ever, I’m happy today to announce another work where I was involved in the last 7 months: Migrating applications to the Cloud book is out. This is an interesting project started months ago for Microsoft with other Azure MVPs. If you’re developing solutions for the cloud, I recommend… Continue Reading...
Monolith ≠ NoOfObjects | Breaking up your extension
If you have IP for Microsoft Dynamics NAV in C/Side your are either in the process of moving it to AL and Business Central or you are busy finding a buyer for your company. Both seem to be very valid options these days. When you talk to the engineers who are busy executing this task the number one question on their mind, once they got their stuff decoupled from BassApp, is how to break up… Continue Reading Mark Brummel’s...
NAVTechDays – It’s a peoples event…
It’s the weekend after NAVTechDays and I rested from a busy week. Two days of pre-conference training and two days of talking at (a lot of) people mostly at the ForNAV booth but also at the booth of Meta UI, Continia, SQL Perform, Anveo, Prism and AL Ops. Design Patterns, once again Teaching the Design Patterns for AL the first time was fun, challenging and exhausting. It was fun because… Continue Reading Mark...
Projects at Business Central SaaS Time (Third Mechanization)
Projects at Business Central SaaS Time (Third Mechanization) < p style=”text-align: left”>In this post I want to create a SWOT matrix to represent the criticality of the projects in A.D. 2019. Customer perceives the project in different ways, it depends on how the customer is and what he had before! However… we can start from Where we are today… We are at the time of “Business Central SaaS“, everyone...
Exposing Dynamics 365 Business Central data to the outside world: my two cents
I had a discussion in the last days on socials with some of my followers (yes, I have them :D) about what’s the best way to expose Dynamics 365 Business Central data to external systems for integrations and for data analysis. Exposing data is an hot topic on every ERP implementation. With Dynamics 365 Business Central on-premise you have the possibility to access the ERP data by directly… Continue Reading demiliani’s...
How to build ‘Zero Code’ Business Central Translation Files using Azure Cognitive Service Translator Text APIs
“The limits of my language means the limits of my world.”― Ludwig Wittgenstein Previously, we had gone through a blog on creating Business Central Extensions with Indian language translation files ( https://codethecoffee.wordpress.com/2019/11/12/can-we-create-business-central-extensions-with-indian-languages-tamil-telugu-and-hindi-translations/ ). Now, we will go through, how… Continue Reading Saran’s Article on their...
5 quick things to know about – Solutions
Welcome to the second post in the 5 bite-size shareable that you should know. This time we’re talking about solutions. A Solution is a container in which we can add in our customization’s, (Forms, Fields, views) it can contain security roles, site maps, Applications, Flows, etc. Solutions is an important piece to learn and master as you forge ahead on your journey with Dynamics 365, Power… Continue Reading Todd...
Business Central :How to Customize Base App
This blog explains how to customize the base app of business central (old fashion) . Please Don’t customize the base app, Use extension wherever possible Step 1 :- Copy Base Application from installer Step 2 :- Unzip in designated folder .This contains app.json file where in target set to onprem app.json will look like this Step 3 :- Download the symbols Step… Continue Reading Ammolh Saallvi’s Article on their blog...
AL Test Runner for Visual Studio Code
TL;DR I’ve written an extension for VS Code to help run your AL tests in local Docker containers. Search for “AL Test Runner” in the extension marketplace or click here. Feedback, bugs, feature suggestions all gratefully received on the GitHub repo or james@jpearson.blog Intro As soon as Freddy added capability to the navcontainerhelper module to execute automated tests I was excited… Continue Reading...
Dynamics 365 Business Central: handling telemetry with Azure Application Insights
Handling telemetry is on of the most important activities that should always be done on a Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS tenant. The classical way to inspect the telemetry of a tenant is going to the Admin portal of your tenant, access the Telemetry tab and here inspect the data (by applying filters and so on). Starting from Dynamics 365 Business Central version 15, you can setup your… Continue Reading demiliani’s...
How to view the Object Details of Business Central Extensions without using VS Code
“Your memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn’t. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you—and summons them to your recall with will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!” ― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany Sometimes, It’s takes a while to get the list of objects used in an Extension by going through VS Code and… Continue Reading Saran’s...
WARNING – The Data Upgrade Elephant
Last Thursday I was at the QBShare event in Veghel, Holland. I’ve been attending these events ever since I joined ForNAV a few years back and since the audience is a bit different from my normal events (CEO vs. Developers) it took me a while to get to know people. No matter who you talk to at these events, all that they have on their minds is moving their IP to Business Central and most… Continue Reading Mark Brummel’s...
#BCALHelp
It’s the week of NAVTechDays, the biggest Business Central Community event of the year and I thought it would be good to spend a few moments on the state of our community. Business Central is taking off. According to Microsoft there are more than 4000 paying tenants and the average number of users per tentant is 10+ which is the sweetspot where Navision used to be strong. I can also see… Continue Reading Mark...
My NAVTechDays
I got quite a week ahead of me .. . Not only will I host one session and some workshops .. I will actually host 2 sessions, 2 workshops and an ISV session this year. What did I get myself into? No repeats! If you look at my session schedule, and you have visited Directions EMEA, well, you might wonder if I’m “just” redelivering content at NAVTechDays. Well .. No! Totally… Continue Reading waldo’s...
MSDYN365BC 2019 Wave 2 – Upgrading an unmodified C/AL Database.
Hi Readers,In this article, we will discuss Upgrading a database to Business Central Wave 2 from Business Central Spring 2019 Release (14.x).This all is for a Business Central Spring Database that does not include any C/AL Code Customization. The database can only include Third Party and Custom Extensions.With this upgrade, we will replace the C/AL base application with a new Business Central… Continue Reading Saurav...
CI/CD for .NET with GithHub Actions
We manage all our internal projects with Azure DevOps (projects not only related to Dynamics 365 Business Central). All our code is hosted on Azure DevOps but personally I’m using also GitHub for “external” projects or for sharing codes with the community (yes, Azure DevOps has public repository too but I prefer a separation on many cases). Unfortunately, build pipelines was a big lack for the… Continue Reading...
Power BI Desktop November 2019 – Decomposition Tree ( Preview )
One of the most requested features for Power BI that has been brought up on ideas.powerbi.com is now available for preview for Power BI Desktop, the decomposition tree. A decomposition tree can use to perform root-cause analysis by viewing how individual categories in a group contribute to the whole The decomposition tree has been initially introduced as part of the Performance Point… Continue Reading Mahmoud M. AlSaadi’s...
SD Extension Pack for Dynamics 365 Business Central Developers
On all the Dynamics 365 Business Central training activities I’ve done in the last year for Microsoft Italy, I’ve always received the following question: why your Visual Studio Code has all these features? Are there a list of extensions that you recommend for working with Dynamics 365 Business Central? I’ve always shared a list of my recommended extensions in the training’s GitHub repository,… Continue...
Can we create Business Central Extensions with Indian Languages (Tamil, Telugu and Hindi) Translations..?
Disclaimer: This is a fun project, created to experiment the possibilities of Business Central and the languages translation within it. It doesn’t mislead the language packs provided by Microsoft. So far, Microsoft haven’t provided any Indian language Business Central Edition and to check the Country and Language Pack Business Central availability, please follow the below link.
MSDYN365BC – Q&A about data upgrades to Business Central?
Hi Readers,This week I am planning to Discuss all Upgrading to Microsoft Dynamics Business Central Wave 2 (on-prem).In this article let's talk about all questions that customers/partners have about Upgrades. We at Archerpoint are passionate about Upgrading all NAV / Business Central Client in Community to the latest and greatest version of Product.Let's try to talk about all the questions that… Continue Reading Saurav...
Working with dates in AL vs. C/AL
It’s friday afternoon and I’m goofing around a bit with the ForNAV AL Converter. I ran into something I want to share. AL seems to be more strickt in hardcoded dates than C/AL. Example < pre class=”wp-block-preformatted”>Constant value ‘99993112D’ is outside the range for a Date. The syntax for defining Date format is yyyymmddD, where D is a mandatory letter. For example, 20180325D, read as the...
Prompting the User for Input with PowerShell
Sometimes you need to prompt the user to provide some value before you can complete your PowerShell script. You’ve got a few different options depending on what you’re asking the user to select from. Parameters Setting a parameter as mandatory without providing a value will prompt the user to enter one, like this: function Invoke-AmazingPowerShellFunction { Param( … Continue Reading james’s Article on their...
DynamicsNAV & Business Central – Internal Movement Error – You Cannot use Location Code.
Hi Readers,I was handling a support ticket for a customer who is recently upgraded from NAV 2013R2 to Business Central 14.Customer users use Internal Movement as a part of this process.When a user is trying to create a New Internal Movement system is generating this error message.This article/solution is for #NAV2018 & #MSDYN365BC. Read Complete Article » Continue Reading Saurav Dhyani’s Article on their blog DynamicsNAV...
How to run a job to delete Change log entries in NAV ?
Introduction: We can enable the change log in Dynamics NAV so we have a history of activities. The change log collects all changes that are made to the table so we can track it. We are good so far but the issue arises when we have millions entries in the system. It not only takes up the memory space of the server but also affects the performance. Hence, I’ve customised a job for deleting… Continue Reading...
Business Central SaaS Exporting Database Backup and Restore it on your Sql Server
Business Central SaaS Exporting Database Backup and Restore it on your Sql Server Since some days, Microsoft has activated the feature for downloading a backup of a Business Central SaaS Azure SQL Database directly from Admin Center. A selected database (in this case a BC v15 Wave 2 production database) can be backuped and exported as a “.bacpac” file; this file will be saved into an “Azure… Continue Reading rstefanetti’s...
MSDYN365BC – How many free objects?
Hi Readers,I recently attended the NAVUG / BCUG Summit from the Dynamics Community.I heard a lot of rumors about free objects in the Business Central on-prem version, so I want to write an article about it based on what I know from Microsoft after creating a ticket with Microsoft.So if you heard that all custom objects are free with Business Central on Prem, sorry to tell you that You heard it… Continue Reading Saurav...
Microsoft Ignit 2019 – Visual Studio Online
Micriosoft has just announced recently at Ignit 2019 the public preview of Visual Studio Online, a cloud-powered development environment acceissable from anywhere. This step is very important for the community of developers to share their feedback on this unique experience. Visual studio online provides its own web-based editor, although, it can also work with Visual Studio Code via… Continue Reading Mahmoud M. AlSaadi’s...
Dynamics 365 Business Central: exporting a database backup from a SaaS tenant
Microsoft has recently activated the feature for downloading a backup of a Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS tenant. A database can be exported from a selected environment as a .bacpac file, can be automatically saved into an Azure Storage account and from there you can download it offline and restore it into your on-premise network (multi-tenant database). How this feature works? As a first… Continue Reading demiliani’s...
Microsoft Dynamics Business Central Cumulative Update Summary For November 2019.
Hi All,Microsoft Have Released Cumulative Update for November 2019 for Business central 13 and 14.Please find below the details of Cumulative Updates Released for Microsoft Business Central 13 and 14.Below are the Links to Download the Latest Cumulative Update. Read Complete Article » Continue Reading Saurav Dhyani’s Article on their blog Microsoft Dynamics Business Central Cumulative Update Summary For November 2019. Hi All,...
Cumulative Update Summary November 2019
Cumulative Update includes all application and platform hotfixes and regulatory features that have been released for Microsoft Dynamics NAV. Microsoft Business Central Spring CU 6:- BUSINESS CENTRAL CU 6 Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2018 CU 23 :- NAV2018CU23 Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2017 CU 36 :- NAV 2017 CU36 Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 CU 49 :- NAV 2016 CU 49 Microsoft… Continue Reading Ammolh Saallvi’s Article on their blog...
Microsoft Dynamics Navision Cumulative Update Summary For November 2019.
Hi All,Microsoft Have Released Cumulative Update for November 2019.Please find below the details of Cumulative Updates Released for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015, NAV 2016, NAV 2017 & NAV 2018.Below are the Links to Download the Latest Cumulative Update. Read Complete Article » Continue Reading Saurav Dhyani’s Article on their blog Microsoft Dynamics Navision Cumulative Update Summary For November 2019. Hi All, Microsoft Have...
Visual Studio Online preview: coding in the browser seems promising.
Today at Ignite 2019 Microsoft has launched the public preview for Visual Studio Online, a managed cloud-based development environment based on Visual Studio Code that works in the browser. The tool is actually not finished (it’s a preview version) but I think it’s extremely promising and it opens the doors to many interesting scenarios for developers (imagine to be able to edit and review… Continue Reading...
Discover how Dynamics 365 Business Central is embedded with Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence in Dynamics 365 Business Central ” Incremental Group Dynamics 365 Business Central is one of Microsoft’s newest and most modern business applications. It is embedded with intelligent features that help make the system more intuitive and your employees more productive. In this article we discuss three examples of how Dynamics 365 Business Central improves your business processes with Artificial...
MSDYN365BC – How Do I Replicate Data From on-Prem to SASS?
Hi Readers,As Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central on-prem being in the market for quite a while, some customers started requesting switching to SASS.With this being said, I Heard rumors in the community like -There is no way to upgrade data to SASS from on-Prem.The only way that customers can move to SASS is via Re-implementation.Replication Tool never works. These Replication tools look… Continue Reading Saurav...
Creating a Workflow Approval for Purchase Orders
One of the most common business requirements nowadays is to ensure that specific critical transactions in the company are reviewed and approved in the ERP system electronically, without the need to print and manually sign each paper. The paper-based approval system is becoming old fashioned and tradition as the business market evolve. In Dynamics 365 Business Central, workflow management is… Continue Reading Mahmoud M....
DIRECTIONS EMEA 2019 – Business Central Release 2019 Wave 2 Take Away
DIRECTIONS EMEA 2019 – Business Central Release 2019 Wave 2 Take Away Al Directions EMEA 2019 (partner community svoltosi a Vienna che si è concluso poco più di un paio di settimane fa) è stata presentata l’ultima versione Dynamics 365 Business Central 2019 Release Wave 2, release rilasciata ufficialmente il 1° Ottobre (circa un mese fa). Quest’anno non ho partecipato all’evento (non… Continue Reading rstefanetti’s Article...
Where is the API v1.0 source code?
With the April ’19 release of Business Central the standard API’s were released as version 1.0. According to the documentation, the beta version of the standard API’s remains available until April 2020 (Business Central 2020 release wave 1). TL;DR API v1.0 pages are not part of the base applicationThey are deployed as a hidden app, called _Exclude_APIV1_With navcontainerhelper you can… Continue Reading...
New Dynamics 365 Logos
Recently Microsoft announced new rebranded BusinessApps icons. I wanted to show you all those new logos on one place. There are all 28 Microsoft BusinessApps icons… YES, we have 28 apps in Microsoft BusinessApps family. Few of the are still in a preview mode, but this is really amazing number of different apps. Continue Reading atotovic’s Article on their blog New Dynamics 365 Logos Recently Microsoft announced new...