Mark Brummel

When working with Extensions I would not recommend working with Xliff files unless you design for AppSource. Otherwise CaptionML will work fine for Per-Tenant projects. Unfortunately for me, I am working right now on submitting an AppSource project and I need to evaluate if my translations are complete. As I explained at my presentation in Antwerp at NAVTechDays we continue to code in C/Side and then convert to Extensions and submit to AppSource. Therefor I don’t have the nightmare problem...

Let’s start diving into working with Extensions in Real Life. I have a lot to blog about and at first I thought I would blog about a very small extension but I’m sure you’ve all seen that. Let’s start big! At NAVTechDays I showed you the extension I created with the ForNAV converter that resulted in 2149 files which compiles and executes. I made the extension work on Business Central OnPrem, installed on my local box with the RTM version. What is the Build Time? It must be...

A little over a week ago I attended the Dutch Dynamics Community again, for the first time in a while. It was good to catch up and exchange news with peers in my network. “You’ve been quiet Mark!” is what I’ve been told a few times and that’s true. For some time I try to be quiet and focus on things that are more personal like being a dad of five now and trying to manage the project of fixing up my Land Rover Defender. It’s not a secret that for quite a while I was in...

Red and Bundle As you know we have been happily developing extensions for a while now. Every once in a while I blog about some stuff I found out recently but it is mostly smooth sailing at the moment. Today I was stumped though. For some reason my symbols were not loading. I make it a point to always develop extensions on a standard NAV2018 database (our current version, move to BC on prem is planned but not yet started) but sometimes I need to add functions or parameters that have been requested...

Today I wanted to extend a Role Center with a Page Extension and I noticed Microsoft has updated terminology. HomeItems = Embedding To add a list to the Home Items you must use Embedding. Other changes: Related Information = Navigation New = Creation. The Result in the Windows Client is the normal behavior with grouping the Cue from the Activities which in this case was also created using a Table Extension and a Page Extension. Great Job guys!

In software we’ve invented all kinds of terminology to make it sound as if removing a feature is great. Terms like sunsetting and retirement give you a great feeling. Who does not love to see the sun go down with a beer and a loved one. In reality it means that software that once was is no longer and we’ve had plenty of that in our beloved Navision product, now referred to as Business Central. FOB is an abbreviation of Financials Object, just like FLF is short for Financials License File...

Today I had a small talk with my brother about generating custom symbols from C/Side and how to manage that. Here is how I did it. At the company I work for we have a DTAP environment and we (normally) only code in Development. Fobs and Extensions are moved from Development to Test, Acceptance and Production. The quesion is how to control your symbols and move them together with each iteration. Surely you can generate symbols in your production database but that might not be super smart. Alternatively...

In the ForNAV standard report pack we have a few reports that are traditionally slow when running. One of my design goals when developing these reports was to see if I can increase performance. The names of the challenged reports will sound familiar to those in our channel for a longer time. Aged Accounts Receivables & Payables Inventory to G/L Reconcile The latter only exists in the North American localization but whomever spends a lot of time on MiBuSo has seen the questions on performance...

On my task list for one of my customers was a nicely isolated module that I could make into an extension. I’m a huge fan of making many small extensions rather than trying to put all of one customers modifications in one project. In this case it is a side-by-side project with C/Side so I have created my own app file for the packages. I’ll see if I can blog somewhat about that later. Extensions are not just for AppSource Some people seem to think that on-premise we can just as well continue...

Last week the inevitable happened. I created a page in C/Side with an ID that I had already been used by an extension. Microsoft is aware of this issue but does not want to prevent it from happening. The problem is that at first everything seems to work. Your new C/Side page will run just fine. I only...