October 2020 – Page 2

AL Dependency and AppSource Apps

In this video, I talk about how to use objects from AppSource in a Per-Tenant-Extension (aka a customization). Even though AppSource apps are distributed by Microsoft you can still use them as normal apps and use the objects within as normal objects (because they are). Source…

23 October 2020

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

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…

22 October 2020

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

The Rules Pattern in Business Central – AL Language

The Rules Pattern is a Design Pattern to simplify the complex business logic which is based on multiple if-else statements. Using this Design Pattern each if-else branch in the business logic is segregated into a separate rules and also the processing logic is separated from the…

21 October 2020

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

Troubleshooting Business Central on Docker

This blog post is not really a troubleshooting guide (although there is a small TSG at the end). It is more like a brain dump of what I have seen over time and how I would approach a trouble shooting session. I have divided it into…

20 October 2020

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

Monitoring changes in Dynamics 365 Business Central 2020 release wave 2 (Change Logs, Field Monitoring and Data audit system fields)

A common challenge in many business management applications is avoiding unwanted changes in data. It could be anything from an incorrect customer name to an incorrect posting to the general ledger. In this blog we will summarize how to Monitor Changes in Dynamics 365 Business Central…

20 October 2020

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

Tic-Tac-Toe in 98% pure AL

In my last video, I asked if viewers wanted to see me create a Tic-Tac-Toe game in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. Lots of viewers wanted that. Tic-Tac-Toe in AL is nothing new, Vjeko did it back in 2017 as a demo of the Javascript control…

19 October 2020

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

Dynamics 365 Business Central: new features for performant code

In the training I’ve done to some partners last week, when talking about performances I shared an example of an extension with 3 features that I think are not so well known but that have a significant impact on how your code performs, expecially on a…

19 October 2020