Connection configuration

Sync. Business Central with CRM and Dataverse home made using OData

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Global Dimensions Change “Incomplete” Problem

Today I found two problems in the function”Change Global Dimensions” (available on “General Ledger Setup” Page) who let an general update of all table containing field about those global dimensions. Roberto Steffaneti  wrote a how to use here. Very simple. Though there is two major problem with this function in NAV 2018 Microsoft code describe […]

Using FTP over SSL/TLS (FTPS) in Business Central

I’ve made a .Net lib to access FTP over SSL/TLS functions from Nav/Business Central on Premise. It’s bases on limilabs Ftp.dll. This one is accepting all security certificate including self-signed. Do not confuse with SFTP that is FTP encapsulated in SSH. Download it here : FTPS-For-Nav-2 Visual studio C# source project here FTPS-For-Nav-SOURCE Install thoses two […]

Microsoft plan to deprecated C/AL planned in two years

Big changes are comming, Microsoft Business Central Roadmap was updated after Direction NA event. Get ready for the end of C/AL planned in two years. This will mark the begining of a new approch of work, investing on more timeproof developments reducing long term technical debt for Business Central customers who need specific modifications (aka […]

Publish designed page from sandbox to Business Central

If you already played with the “design” page functionnality in Business Central, you probably hurt to the struggle “how to design page in Business Central as in the sandbox environnement”. As far as I know this functionnalty is only available in our sandbox environment. When you finish your page modifications, an extension is generated : […]