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Add Bookmarks via AL Code Using the bookmark icon , you can add an action that opens a page or report from the navigation menu of your Role Center . The bookmark icon is shown in the top right corner of a page and also in the  Tell Me  window where you can efficiently bookmark multiple pages or reports . If a bookmark already exists for the page, then the icon is dark, and the tooltip says “ Bookmarked “. An action named after the page\report is added to the navigation menu on your Role Center . Example Add Bookmark A Bookmarked page How to do it with Al Code? Through…

Business Central Virtual Entities and CDS God morning, It’s been a while since I wrote and I disappeared from the communities because I was sick, Covid unfortunately hit me too. After about 17 days of severe illness, I am slowly recovering, now I feel better. Covid is a disease that I do NOT recommend to anyone, it is really bad, at least in my case; I am still positive but I hope to negativize myself soon.   Having said that … let’s go on … In this post we mention the Virtual Entities (in preview mode) that will soon change the approach for integrations between Business Central…

DIRECTIONS4PARTNERS VIRTUAL CONFERENCE 2020 …will start tomorrow morning! Directions For Partners Virtual Event 2020 will start tomorrow, just a little away! Below you will find all the sessions and the list of those that I consider most interesting (obviously “De Gustibus non disputandum est”, “Giulio Cesare”). It will definitely be a hit! See you there in the morning ! MY BEST SESSIONS DAY1 09:00 – 10:30 LIVE KEYNOTE MICROSOFT + DIRECTIONS TEAM MORE DETAILS WILL FOLLOW 10:45 – 11:30 BEST PRACTICES IN PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT AND CUSTOMER CUSTOMIZATIONS MODIFYING STANDARD REPORTS IN AL (FOR THE FUNCTIONAL…

Good morning, today we present this short video related to the BCContainer Wizard, a useful tool (powershell based) to use for those who want to start with BC on Docke r. This Wizard produces a script (which obviously can also be written by hand …) with the necessary commands to create the docker; the system reads Artifacts, Sandboxes and also manages older versions of NAV . The file produced at the end looks like this, I leave an example. Example : # *** PRE-REQUIREMENTS FOR CONTAINERS ON WINDOWS SERVER 2019 # *** WINDOWS SERVER 2019 - CONTAINERS FEATURE Install Containers Install-WindowsFeature…

Business Central: the “VAT Group” Concepts What is Group VAT Management? VAT groups are formed of individual companies, ideally to lift the VAT burden within the group. From the perspective of VAT reporting, authorities treat a VAT group as one company , which means one VAT Return submission from the group with “aggregated data for the entire group” . You can join one or more businesses in your country to consolidate VAT reporting under a single registration number . This type of arrangement is known as a  ”VAT Group” ; you can engage with the group as a member or the group representative. We…

Business Central Execute Queries from Pages With the QueryCategory property we can execute a query object from a page (also available in Smartlists) by defining a query in AL; it is possible to declare with a comma separated list where the object can be used, in practice it is added to the list of objects published in the SmartList. Very powerful and useful for those who often use queries without creating new pages to visualize them (which are obviously read only by design). QueryCategory property : this property is for internal use only https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central…

October 21, 2020 at 11:00 ET | 17:00 CEST | 22:00 ICT With this virtual event Business Central 2020 Wave2 will be officially presented, there are many news. About Event You’ll hear from product leaders as they share with you the latest innovations and capabilities as part of the Business Central 2020 release wave 2. We will get up close and personal-outlining the latest product direction and what it means for you and your business. And that’s just the start. You will also get access to 20+ breakout sessions available on-demand as well as Live chats with product experts on October 26th and 27th…

Business Central Specific Cost About Specific Cost (general) The costing method determines if an actual or a budgeted value is capitalized and used in the cost calculation. Together with the posting date and sequence, the costing method also influences how the cost flow is recorded. The specific cost criterion aims to individually evaluate the inventories, purchased or produced , determining the relative cost separately” An item’s unit cost is the exact cost at which the particular unit was received; In production or trade of easily identifiable items with fairly high unit costs. For items that…

Business Central and Microsoft Teams : “ Share, view, and act on your business data ” • Make faster decisions by sharing Dynamics 365 Business Central data in Microsoft Teams conversations. • This app connects Microsoft Teams to your business data in Dynamics 365 Business Central, so you can quickly share details with your team and respond faster to inquiries. • Paste a link to any Business Central record into chat, and it will expand that into a compact card to share with your coworkers. • View card details , edit data, and take action without ever leaving Microsoft Teams — at your desk, at home…

Business Central 2020 Release Wave 2 SaaS is available! Great day today! Today October 1 2020 , “ Business Central 2020 Release Wave 2”  is available on  Cloud (SaaS)  and on  Docker distributions  and soon the On-premise installation DVD  will be available. All  what’s new  for this October’s release can be found on the  ms-docs page  (below the link), in next post I will show you some interesting new features (my opinion). Microsoft Docs Link “What’s New, Released and Planned for MSDYN365 2020 Release Wave2” https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365-release-plan/2020wave2/smb/dynamics365…