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CODE COMPLETE! Yesss. This was waiting somewhat too long on my desk to be completed, but this morning I finally did: Extended Text on Assembly Documents . This example extends the standard Extended Text feature in Business Central to assembly documents. As with the previous two completed examples ( Blocking Deletion of Warehouse Shipment Lines and Automatically Set Posting Period on GL Setup and User ) you will find…

A couple of months ago I introduced here my GitHub project Test Automation Examples when I had just finished the first example as a spinoff of my new online course. And around that time I started with example 2 . Test wise this one was a bit too ambitious and as a consequence it is still waiting to be completed. Hopefully somewhere during my long summer recess I get it done. Meanwhile, at my major employer, I designed…

Cumulative Update 13 for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central April'19 on-premises (Application Build 14.14.43294, Platform Build 14.14.43286) TearDown Just a quickie this time, this update is really small and concentrates on fixing some quirks in the system. This update does not require database...

As you ever used the WITH clause in C/AL or AL language? There are lovers of this clause and there are developers that hate using this clause (I’m in this second category), but despite every personal opinion the WITH clause is widely used in code and also in the Microsof’s Base Application. As announced at the Dynamics 365 Business Central Virtual Event, Microsoft is continuously evolving the platform and their…

Sometimes I just have to write my frustration away in order to clear my head. Don’t expect technical tips and tricks in this post, but maybe some inspiration. Today I was absolutely flabbergasted. Both on Twitter and on LinkedIn (I am a social media junky) there were actually threads about Microsoft removing the WITH statement in AL. I was litterally like OMG! Go spend your time on the future!! https://github…

In this series I’m building a Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central extension that talks with the US Postal Service for doing address verification. Episode 1, create the web service call: Stay tuned for the next episodes where I continue building this extension. When the extension is done, the source will Read the full text.

If you’re using Azure DevOps in yor organization for the entire product lifecycle, you know for sure that you can handle also all your project management activities by using work items , boards , backlogs , sprints and so on. I’ve talked about that in the past here . What personally we use a lot internally is the Work Items feature. By using work items you can track anything, from a task to do, a feature to…

Last week my marketing manager asked me is it possible to embed product video in business central ? and my quick answer was YES. Here how we can add the video in business central. for this I created simple extension 1) Added on field to hold an video URL 2) Create one page extension... Read the full text.

Telemetry is everything, you cannot have enough data when users start asking you why the system is behaving differently than yesterday or performance is changing over time. This is where Azure SQL stands out from On Premises. You can get so much more data and in an easy way to analyse. However, you need to know where to find it because not everyting is setup automatically after you create a database. Some is…