Synchronizing Business Central with Dynamics For Sales, Dataverse or Power Platform is a common need. For the ones who worked with the Business Central Connector, you may have some awful experience with it. However the underlying process to connect with it is not that complicated :Both OnPremise CRM and Dataverse have the same API capability […]
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Enable Preview of “Analysis / Pivot” view in Business Central
Micorosoft presented this fantastic feature last year on TechDays and Direction. Enable the feature The general availability is planned for Business Central 23.0 (october 2023), however you can enable the preview version for Business Central 22.0 (2023 wave 1) under the page “Feature Managment” https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/analysis-mode Either you can click on “Try it out” to get […]
Multithreading in Business central AL
Hi This post expose how to run multithreading operation in AL using subsession mecanism. I’ll provide codeunit to ease the usage with a nice UI. If you ever need to run an heavy process in Business Central that could be splitted in multiple parrallel task (with codeunit and optionaly record input) then this could definitively […]
Get ride of App dependencies using References
If you ever worked on multiple Business Central extensions, you may know the struggle with dependencies. The Issue When we need to access a table, page or anything else that come from another extension, then you need to set your own app depending on it, and this happen quite often. This drive to two major […]
Multi-companies solution designing in Business Central
Some of you might have struggled against Business Central companies architecture. For exemple you can need to build a page showing aggregation of table across all companies, or create a process that will run on Company A and then post something in Company B. The C/AL and AL code allow us to use “CHANGECOMPANY” on […]
Integrate Business Central data (Onprem&SaaS) in PowerPlateform through CDS
Already eard about Microsoft CDS ? Since Business Central V16 + you can synchronise Business central data into the CDS entities on Microsoft cloud, in order to use them with the power plateform tools collection (power automate, virtual agent, power BI …) and it’s also working with Onpremise Business central NB : it was in […]
Nav XSD Paser patch for XMLPort generation
If you plan to work arround an huge xml file import/export and help yourself with the standard XML schema viewer, you should know about the useful “Generate XMLport” function : Two problem I’ve been hurted with this : – With repeating node name a number is added surrounded with < >, the variable can’t be […]
Upgrade Business central base V14 to V15 (wave 2)
You got a Business Central V14 with extension and/or data you want to bring in Business central V15 ? Let’s take a look at the microsoft guideline : Technical Upgrade to Dynamics 365 Business Central 2019 Wave 2 I personally followed Microsoft process but it turns out that several details and step are missings so […]
Social features lack in ERP software
I’m not hearing a lot about the social ERP subject yet we are the more and more people working together remotly, I think this deserve more attention. My insipiration come from social network, Monday.com, Asana, Yammer, Teams and so on. Project managment system like Monday.com got very nice social oriented features. Using this idea for […]
Automate your C/Side to AL Data transfer (Business central v14)
If you plan to read this post you’ve probably already worked or planned to on C/AL to extension convertion. This post does not treat about the base update or AL convertion but only about the data transfert from c/al to extension. AL extension data are stored differently than C/AL : adding fields on customer table […]