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CUSTOM IMAGES IN BUSINESS CENTRAL LIST PAGES The ideal would be a mediaset field, unfortunately, the display from the web client in the lists is not perfect, you need to use brickview to view; in this case, we can still use the old technology based on blob fields (deprecated). “Hi, do you know if there is any way of displaying Mediaset fields in list pages without using brickview ?” What is the alternative (NOT using brickview) in the WebClient using Media fields instead of BLOBS (without using external components such as Meta UI)?” https://github.com/Microsoft/AL/issues/3406 Example…

Business Central oAuth2 Authentication Steps to activate the OAuth2 authentication method, this type of connection can be used to connect to Business Central WebServices-APIs ; it will soon be the only method available as access with WebService key is deprecated . The system to access the exposed services uses a token issued by the access procedure (see details at the links below), it is possible to use different ways to get the token released. Docs https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/webservices/authenticate-web-services-using-oauth https:/…

“Browse through the Microsoft Dynamics NAV (Navision) Data Model Great-looking table relationship diagrams which will help you learn the Dynamics NAV (Navision) Architecture” interesting site related to table relationship diagrams, updated to NAV 2018 and very useful. I want to point it out because it could be useful. https://dynamicsdocs.com/ NAV2018W1 https://dynamicsdocs.com/nav/2018/w1/ ex Jobs Filter https://dynamicsdocs.com/nav/2018/w1/#jobs L'articolo DYNAMICS NAV TABLE RELATIONSHIP DIAGRAMS proviene da Roberto Stefanetti Blog - Microsoft Dynamics…

Business Central OnPremise – DotNet assemby integration in Microsoft AL This short post to show you how to use DotNet assemblies in Business Central OnPremise , it might be useful to declare and use them in Microsoft AL. STEPS First of all it is necessary to set the target in the app.json file, in this case is target is “ OnPrem” (for Cloud (for Cloud/SaaS I will test Blazor shortly in a future post) After this, it’s necessary to modify the settings.json of VsCode in order to integrate the paths where the dotNet assemblies reside. Example File – Preferences – Settings –  Extensions…

Business Central Cloud renaming a PDF report using FileManagement.BLOBExport On the Business Central Cloud, to save a report in PDF format and change its name while saving, you can use a STREAM BLOB through the “ Temp blob ” codeunit. Once this is done, use the function then the BLOBExport function present in the “ File Management ” codeunit to export the report created with the “ REPORT.SAVEAS ” command, changing its name during saving. Example: Code pageextension 50001 SalesInvoiceext extends "Sales Invoice" { layout { } actions { addafter("Test…

Business Central “View the last know error” page Sometimes it can happen that Business Central does not report an error on the screen (or reports it minimally) making it difficult for the user to understand what went wrong or why a procedure was not successful. Without debugging in sandbox copy, etc. and without disturbing the partner, the tenant administrator, it is always possible to view the last error detected; the system stores them all and allows you to always consult the latest. You need to recreate the error, open the guide and then select help and support , you will be able to…

Business Central 2021 Wave1 What’s New and Planned Always keeping in mind these notes: “Some of the functionality described in this release plan has not been released. Delivery timelines may change and projected functionality may not be released”, today the document “ Business Central 2021 Wave1 What’s New and Planned ” was made public. You can find all the features declared to date at this link: https://docs.microsoft.com/it-it/dynamics365-release-plan/2021wave1/smb/dynamics365-business-central/planned-features   In this short post, I would like to point out only one feature for…

Business Central enhanced emails This feature provides powerful and easy to set up email capabilities . It is possible to activate different scenarios such as support for multiple accounts, distribution groups and use better attachment management. It’s possible: – Activate different scenarios and assign them to different email accounts – Create manual emails – See the log of emails sent (Log) – Reopen sent mails It’s like using Outlook within Business Central   ENHANCED EMAILS FEATURES You can find all the features in the Search menu Microsoft Docs Link https:/…

Restoring environments in Business Central admin center TOPICS Considerations and limitations Environments can only be restored if the customer has a paid Business Central subscription. Each environment can be restored up to 10 times in a calendar month . An environment can only be restored within the same Azure region and country (Business Central localization) as the original environment. A production environment can be restored to either a  Production  or  Sandbox  type environment. A sandbox environment can only be restored a  Sandbox  type environment. NOTE It’s not…

Business Central “free to use” Graphical Scheduler APP by Insight Works APP TOPICS Graphical Scheduler is an app for Business Central (free to use to date) that can be used to view and schedule on the time line (a Gantt Analysis) p roduction orders, resources allocated to both Assembly and Orders , reading also from various other data sources and the possibility of activating a customized source to retrieve other data. There are still some functionalities in experimental mode but I must say that it is very interesting, I have done some tests which I illustrate below. Obviously there are…