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...