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Yes! It’s here! The long awaited Report Inspector in Business Central. Don’t know what I’m talking about, well let me bring you up-to-date: Microsoft Idea  · Report Inspector (dynamics.com) And now, with the release of Update 18.3 for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central online 2021 release wave 1 , we have these 2 amazing features: Get report (raw data) into Excel from request page  (targeting end users) Save report dataset to excel from the request page  (targeting developers) The new features are controlled by a feature flag, so opt-in for upgrading customers and opt…

Learning how to customize  Business Central Cloud solutions from scratch or transforming your classic Dynamics NAV development knowledge, skill set and heuristics towards modern Business Central development tools including Visual Studio Code, AL and DevOps can be challenging. Read more about it here: Learn Modern Business Central Cloud Development with Visual Studio Code, Git and DevOps (businesscentralbooster.com) But it is a challenge that any developer should take now. As you can read in  this blog . Microsoft made clear that there is no future for old-school on premises development…

Yesterday Microsoft announced the availability of preview environments for Business Central 2021 release wave 1 , and as of today  was able to actually create one So how do you do this? Well it’s actually very simple. In your current Business Central Saas environment, open the Admin Center : Or use this URL: https://businesscentral.dynamics.com/YOURTENANTID/admin  and replace YOURTENANTID with your tenant id. Where can you find your tenant id? You can find that here: In the Environments , click New : In the pane that opens, at the right side of the screen, select Type : Sandbox…

It’s been a while since I posted, and I have a lot of posts coming about Business Central and Power BI, but I wanted to put your attention first on some idea’s that I created. Let’s have a look at these ideas: Add Business Central as a Data Source in DataFlows Enable incremental refresh for Business Central in Power BI If you did not already vote for them, then please do. And let me explain why. I get a lot of questions from partners, customers, developers, users,… about the performance of Power BI reports built on top of Business Central. And to be honest, the perception out there…

How do you make sure your #BusinessCentral developers are comfortable and stay on track with their competence development at any time? Ilse Daems , the HR manager at GMI group NV , knows how. Read her story here https://businesscentralbooster.com/2021/02/25/business-central-developer-training/ #businesscentral #BusinessCentralBosster #msdyn365bc #msdynamics #msdyn365 #bcalhelp #learningfromhome Our full encompassing core development professional program  will boost you in the   Business Central  customization and development  practice . A real-world implementation scenario leads your learning…

Interested in some basic and in depth knowledge and lot’s of demos on Power BI and Business Central  @Dynconference ? Then vote for me here: https:// dynamicscon.com/submissions/?q uery=renders … DynamicsCon 2021 is a FREE virtual learning experience for Microsoft Dynamics 365 (D365), Dynamics GP, & Power Platform users and professionals happening March 16 – 18 2021. Experience expert speakers, online networking opportunities, and engaging educational sessions covering a range of cutting-edge tools, techniques, and product applications. Whether a novice or seasoned expert, this 3…

Did you know? Since BC introduced the Application App, you should omit the dependencies on the System App and Base App: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/developer/devenv-json-files#Appjson In previous versions the references to base and system application were stated explicitly under dependencies in the app.json file of the extension. Instead you must now use the Application version property in the app.json file. As you can see here, I omitted the dependencies, included the application, and all symbols download: Soon up-taking the Application…

You might be aware of this idea: https://experience.dynamics.com/ideas/idea/?ideaid=c7f30764-d247-e911-867a-0003ff68f3db And if you haven’t yet, please vote Now recently I came across a post from Bert De Temmerman on Yammer: https://www.yammer.com/dynamicsnavdev/threads/736254082498560  and that got my inspiration flowing… He suggests that when you add this action to the “ Report Layout Selection ” page, you can export any dataset by first running the request-page: And of-course, it works! So I created a simple codeunit that contains a function that can export a report’s…

You might be aware of this idea: https://experience.dynamics.com/ideas/idea/?ideaid=c7f30764-d247-e911-867a-0003ff68f3db And if you haven’t yet, please vote Now recently I came across a post from Bert De Temmerman on Yammer: https://www.yammer.com/dynamicsnavdev/threads/736254082498560  and that got my inspiration flowing… He suggests that when you add this action to the “ Report Layout Selection ” page, you can export any dataset by first running the request-page: And of-course, it works! So I created a simple codeunit that contains a function that can export a report’s…

Recently Microsoft added the Table Information page to Business Central. See here . And underlying are these objects: Table Information (8700, List) Table Information (2000000028) So I was thinking, hey let’s use this in Power BI. Then my first thought was to create a query object using the Table Information table as a data item, but unfortunately I got the following error: Damn…. But hey, there’s another way, let’s use the Reporting Data Setup wizard to expose the page as a web service: Now the page is published as a web service and you can use Power BI Desktop to connect…