January 2021 – Page 3

How to use Run-AlValidation

When releasing the first version of Run-AlValidation in BcContainerHelper, i did a quick blog post about the function here. This blog post serves to explain some common scenarios of how to run the function. The blog post will also explain the parameters of Run-AlValidation a bit…

14 January 2021

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

Check Customer License in an OnPrem db – from the web client

I got an internal question from our consultants on how they are able to access the license information of the customer for an OnPrem customer. There are a few scenarios where that’s interesting. Just to check which license is in production. Or how many objects or…

14 January 2021

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

Please Zip an entire Customer with AL

In this video, I show how to create a Zip file from Business Central. I Zip all the invoices on a customer into a single zip file. Source : Hougaard.com Read more...

13 January 2021

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

Dynamics 365 Business Central: How to customize post options (Dialog: Ship, Invoice, Ship and Invoice)

I saw a new problem in Dynamics 365 Business Central/NAV User Group today. “How to remove the Receive & Invoice option in the PO Posting?” So in this blog, we will discuss how to customize post options (Dialog: Ship, Invoice, Ship and Invoice) in the SO…

13 January 2021

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

How to extend Business Central API without extensions

As most of you, I guess know, it is not allowed to extend Business Central API's. This page type cannot be extended by creating a page extension object. Instead, you must create a new API by adding a page object However, sometimes we just need to…

12 January 2021

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

Through the looking glass – Prism for AL

The old Prism tool for C/AL has come in a version for AL. In this video, I take a first look at the tool: Source : Hougaard.com Read more...

12 January 2021

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

My JSON To AL Converter

Since I am very lazy and I didn’t find any AL code generator I decided to develop it on my own. My app gets a JSON file as input and, for each entity present, it automatically generates three files : 1) the AL table ; 2)…

11 January 2021