Aphorisms about Microsoft Dynamics NAV

Some people take vacations far away in the Christmas holiday, but not me. I decided to start the new year by writing a new book: Introduction to the Modern client in Business Central The book cover the new features introduced with Business Central Release Wave 2 and the Modern client. In spite of the new name, the client was not completely unknown because it was built on the foundation of the web-client that was introduced with Dynamics NAV 2013 and later revised with Dynamics 365 Business…

Since the base application is no longer available through C/Side in Dynamics 365 Business Central Release Wave 2, we need an alternative way of searching for objects and debugging. That means that we firstly need to find the base application. Luckily, we all have access to it, we just don't know it. Creating the base Application So, here is the recipe to create one: First open Visual Studio code and create a new project for Release Wave 2: Point to a local Release Wave 2 service…

This week I had a little extra time during my development course @Readynez in Sweden. Therefore, I decided to make an overview of the keyboard shortcuts in Visual Studio code when developing extensions for Dynamics 365 Business Central. And as always, I share it you you. You can download it here in png or pdf format.

Since the C/Side development environment is deprecated in Dynamics 365 Business Central Release Wave 2, there are no possible way to run objects any more. Therefore, I decided to find an alternative way. So I made an extension to do that Run All Objects will list all objects of the types: Tables Pages Reports Codeunits XML Ports And allow you to run it. It runs on all versions of Dynamics 365 Business Central both on-premise and in the cloud. You can clone the project…

Of all the places where I have seen the printable keyboard overview, all of them have only included the system shortcuts. What about the shortcuts that were included in Dynamics 365 Business Central Release Wave 2 application? I know that my customers wants a total overview. So I created one myself and you can download them in pdf and png format in English or Danish from here (sorry rest of the world ). Keyboard Layout D365BC RW2 DK Keyboard Layout D365BC RW2 EN Let me know if I missed…

Operating the Modern client from the keyboard When the Modern Client was released with Dynamics 365 Business Central Release Wave 2, Microsoft promised to have fixed a lot of the problems that previously held end-user customers from using the Web-Client: Missing shortcuts Missing Quick-Entry Missing Departments menu No Personalization Too many levels in the menus Copy/paste failed periodically So, during my last Application course at Readynes in Sweden, we decided that we would…

Making apps I have tried different translation tools, both on-premise and cloud versions, but I have been disappointed every time. I mean, how hard can it be: I want to be able to create multiple projects for translation. I want to be able to translate the same project to multiple languages. I want to be able to import the source file. Then I want the tool to be able to translate automatically. However ridiculous the translations might be, most are actually ok. I want the translation…

Some time ago I saw this as a picture on LinkedIn. I thought it was such a good idea, that I started using it as a mantra during my AL Development workshop. Earlier we needed to rely on backups that could be up to a week old if they existed at all. Now using Visual Studio Code and Git together with GitHub or DevOps we have an excellent opportunity to get a close-to real time protection. But that is only if we implement this mantra: Git Commit – Committing the changes made since the last…

During my classes I always get at least one Ahaaaa from a delegate or maybe even a "(#¤%&/(%¤ I have wasted half my life not knowing that" so I have been urged to share some of my little tricks here on my blog, and if you get just one new thing, it's all worth it. So here they are: Expand Lines on documents How to expand the lines sub-page on documents from NAV 2016 and forward. Everybody tries to expand the Lines here: But there is actually a secret line underneath the totals, and…

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