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Dynamics 365 & Power Platform Plans Here are the links to the external release plans; the PDF copy is available when you access these links · https://aka.ms/Dynamics365Wave2ReleasePlan · https://aka.ms/PowerPlatformWave2ReleasePlan Dynamics 365 Business Central Plan for Release 2021 Wave2 (r.19) This topic lists features that are planned to release from October 2021 through March 2022 . Because this topic lists features that may not have released yet,  delivery timelines may change and projected functionality may not be released . https://docs.microsoft.com/it…

Business Central rel. 18.3 – The “Data Administration” Page In Dynamics 365 Business Central, administrators have different options for handling table and database sizes ; until now, these options have been available through several different pages and roles. With this new page, all processes are displayed in a single place . An in- product assistant can be used for guidance . These features were already present in Dynamics NAV, have been reintroduced from Business Central release 18.3 also in Business Central (from a request entered and voted on in Microsoft Ideas). The two most important…

Below you’ll find an overview and relevant links to what has been done on hotfixes and regulatory features in this update. In addition, we have gathered some good to know information and links, you might find interesting. Feature changes Export any List to Excel Service-to-service authentication Dimension issues detection and repair tool Integration of Word templates Data administration and cleanup tasks page Integration of Word templates with interaction templates New countries added to the list of supported countries Business Central Database capacity changes (as of July 1, 2021…

Business Central OAuth2.0 Authentication – Access granted by Token OAuth2 authentication method, this type of connection can be used to connect to  Business Central Admin APIs ; the system to access the exposed APIs services us es a token issued by the access procedure , it is possible to use different ways to get the token released. How to retrieve tokens… In recent development courses (about 50 people) we showed how to get the tokens from Powershell, C#, PHP, OpenID and other systems . Microsoft is working on these things (hot topic) providing ready-made examples of various kinds, now…

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Directions EMEA | Milan October 27-29 – registration is open! Reconnect with the Dynamics 365 community at Directions EMEA, October 27-29 in Milan . The Directions committee has opened up for registrations , make sure to explore their site and start your registration: Directions EMEA | Directions 4 Partners In the Directions committees own words : “After 18 months of working from home, a zillion Teams meetings and a few virtual conferences, we are super exited to see and meet you all again”… https://directions4partners.com/events/directions-emea/ “FOCUS ON” The focus will be on the…

Word Templates and Word merge in Business Central Mail Merge in Business Central You can use the mail merge functionality in Word to use data from Business Central to add a personal touch to bulk communications. When you want to send a document to a lot of recipients (for example, to your customers and contacts as part of a sales campaign), you can use Word’s mail merge capability to personalize each document by pulling data about the recipients from Business Central .   Scenario For example, you can create brochures to alert customers about a sales campaign , letters to inform vendors…

How to enhance Business Central Role centers with the power of Widget Containers and jQuery Using the ControlAddins and power of jQuery it is possible to add container widgets to roles centers to extend their functionality, using the page parts in which to publish the widgets. Surely, this is interesting for demos as other products do the same thing, giving the idea that Business Central Online is completely customizable using internet services. To achieve this, it can be done in several ways; in this example, jQuery is used for loading data into widgets. Widgets for Weather Stocks…

Update apps installed from Appsource in Business Central Online with Powershell This post will show you how you can update apps installed from the Marketplace in Business Central Cloud with Powershell . In the example below, powershell will be used which will inv oke the APIs needed to update the APPs installed from the marketplace. For convenience I added a couple of functions to the BCContainerhelper to make it more convenient, in this way we can take advantage of the token management already present in the module, placed in GitHub.   BC Administration APIs Administration APIs Automation…

Publishing apps to a Business Central Online by Powershell #1 Kinds of Apps There are 2 kinds of apps: AppSource Apps and Per Tenant Extensions (PTEs). These apps can be installed in two kinds of environments: Sandbox and Production . In Production , AppSource Apps are installed in the global scope ( Global ) and Per Tenant Extensions are installed in the Tenant Scope ( PTE ). In Sandbox environments, you can also install apps to the development scope ( Dev – like what VS Code does). Example: Global, PTE, Dev #2 Using “Publish-PerTenantExtensionApps” to Publishing PTEs to the Tenant…