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Recently someone asked me if it is possible to programmatically access information from notes and add them on a page or report, so I thought, why not blog about it? The first thing you should know is that notes are saved in the table: “ Record Link “: And you should also know that there’s a codeunit “ Type Helper ” that can help you: This codeunit contains a lot of very useful functions such as: And that’s exactly what you need. So let’s put this in an example. Let’s create a codeunit, with a function: GetNotesForRecordRef : Now you can use this procedure, for example in a…

This month we have a lot of exciting announcements. Two of our most requested features on UserVoice are releasing this month, heat maps and single select slicers. Additionally, we are making our complete facelift of the modeling view generally available. New DAX functions and improvements to existing features, such as buttons and the selection pane, round out this update. Here’s the complete list of March updates: Reporting Single select slicer Heat map support for Bing maps Cross-highlight by axis labels Default tooltip formatting Static web URL support for buttons, shapes &…

Frequently I get questions, remarks, observations from customers, partners, workshop participants, prospects,… about Business Central regarding what’s possible and what not. Question I’m asked frequently are: What are the current limitations when you develop with extensions? What are the current limitations when you compare Business Central Saas (Cloud) with On Prem? Can we still do ‘this’ or ‘that’ in Business Central Saas version? How do we upgrade from the On Prem to the Cloud product? Well, did you know that there’s a ton of information out there? https://docs.microsoft…

Frequently I get questions, remarks, observations from customers, partners, workshop participants, prospects,… about Business Central regarding what’s possible and what not. Question I’m asked frequently are: What are the current limitations when you develop with extensions? What are the current limitations when you compare Business Central Saas (Cloud) with On Prem? Can we still do ‘this’ or ‘that’ in Business Central Saas version? How do we upgrade from the On Prem to the Cloud product? Well, did you know that there’s a ton of information out there? https://docs.microsoft…

Developer Preview – February 2019: Microsoft Dynamics Blog: https://community.dynamics.com/business/b/businesscentraldevitpro/archive/2019/02/27/developer-preview-february-2019 Welcome to the February edition of the Developer Preview. The biggest announcement this month is that we are publishing a preview of the base application fully on AL language . There is a new Docker image, which contains this version here: bcinsider.azurecr.io/bcsandbox-master:14.0.28630.0-al.  Currently this image is not automatically refreshed. We will manually push new images with the country code…

Developer Preview – February 2019: Microsoft Dynamics Blog: https://community.dynamics.com/business/b/businesscentraldevitpro/archive/2019/02/27/developer-preview-february-2019 Welcome to the February edition of the Developer Preview. The biggest announcement this month is that we are publishing a preview of the base application fully on AL language . There is a new Docker image, which contains this version here: bcinsider.azurecr.io/bcsandbox-master:14.0.28630.0-al.  Currently this image is not automatically refreshed. We will manually push new images with the country code…

That’s a question I hear frequently from Customers and I see frequently on several fora. And if you are new to Business Central, without any prior knowledge of Dynamics NAV Development, it’s not an obvious answer… (Dynamics NAV is the product Business Central is based upon, and it has a development environment called C/SIDE) The first thing you need to know is that a Report object in Business Central had one dataset and one or two built-in layouts: an RDLC and/or a WORD layout. Both of these layouts are built on top of the same, common, dataset. Then, at run-time, in the application, you can…

That’s a question I hear frequently from Customers and I see frequently on several fora. And if you are new to Business Central, without any prior knowledge of Dynamics NAV Development, it’s not an obvious answer… (Dynamics NAV is the product Business Central is based upon, and it has a development environment called C/SIDE) The first thing you need to know is that a Report object in Business Central had one dataset and one or two built-inn layouts: an RDLC and/or a WORD layout. Both of these layouts are built on top of the same, common, dataset. Then, at run-time, in the application, you…

The February update for Power BI Desktop has a preview of our new Key Influencers visual, which lets you perform key drivers analysis over your data with just a few clicks. We also have some major updates for Q&A with the addition of auto-generated questions and the ability to ask Insights related questions. Our partners and community have added a lot of new connectors and custom visuals this month as well. Lastly, to round things out, we have some formatting and visual improvements this month. Here’s the complete list of February updates: Reporting Updates to the new filter pane …

The February update for Power BI Desktop has a preview of our new Key Influencers visual, which lets you perform key drivers analysis over your data with just a few clicks. We also have some major updates for Q&A with the addition of auto-generated questions and the ability to ask Insights related questions. Our partners and community have added a lot of new connectors and custom visuals this month as well. Lastly, to round things out, we have some formatting and visual improvements this month. Here’s the complete list of February updates: Reporting Updates to the new filter pane …