This seems to be one of the hottest “problems” when using Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS: actually you cannot directly print a document on a printer, but you need to open the PDF file and then print from the browser. This could be ok for documents or for other not so repetitive tasks, but it could be a problem on scenarios like warehouse or production and so on, where you need to send to a printer a big amount of documents. Unfortunately there’s no an “out of the box” solution for that and Microsoft at the moment has no plans for implementing that feature quite soon. So, possible solutions…

I saw different tickets and questions related to the title’s topic in the last weeks and I think there’s the need for a clarification. I wrote a post some months ago by explaining the Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS tenant upgrade process that Microsoft has in place (you can find it here ) but there are some strange behaviours that start appear to partners and that must be explained. As you already know for sure, With Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS customers and partners have now also the possibility to create a sandbox environment by copying also the production data and it’s quite natural…

Microsoft has revealed to the general public the new Dynamics 365 Business Central features planned to be released in the April 2019 wave (from April through September 2019). Here a quick summary of what to attend (so be prepared ): Web experience improvements : New shortcuts Work date settings Company indicator Totals for lists Improved search Advanced personalization experience Page inspector: an “advanced zoom feature”  Depending on the page you are inspecting, some or all of the following is displayed: The page or page part name and identifier. The underlying table…

I think that today everyone of you knows that with Dynamics 365 Business Central we have the following rules for Object IDs: 50.000-99.999: per tenant/customer customizations (no AppSource). 1.000.000-60.000.000: RSP range for partners that have an ISV solution for on premise / D365BC. When used in Business Central these extensions are obtained as apps from  appsource.microsoft.com . 70.000.000-74.999.999: This range is only available for extension development and only in Business Central. These extensions are obtained as apps from  appsource.microsoft.com. There is however a rule…

This is a quick post to signal a “worst practice” I’ve see today in a partner’s extension. This extension needs to save some private data and the partner has decided to use the Service Password table for that scope. The Service Password table is a particular table (ID 1261, present also in NAV) with the following structure: This table was born in the NAV era for implementing the Service Data Encapsulation pattern . This table stores a key/value pair, where the key is a GUID and the Value is BLOB that contains the encrypted value of the key passed. Why this is not a best practice in my…

Do you know what Portainer  is? In simple words, it’s a simple management solution for Docker and it consists of a web UI that allows you to easily manage your Docker containers, images, networks and volumes. All is based on a single container that can run on any Docker engine (Linux or Windows). Have you ever thinked on having something similar for Dynamics 365 Business Central? Something like a simple user interface to create your locally hosted Dynamics 365 Business Central container-based sandboxes? If your answer is yes (I’m one of you) there’s something in the air… Business Central in…