September 2021 – Page 2

Dynamics 365 Business Central: new indexing features on 2021 Wave 2 release

Dynamics 365 Business Central 2021 Wave 2 release (version 19) introduces some new indexing features that you can use on your tables definitions from AL. Now you can: - Define columnstore indexes - Define included columns in indexes Source : Stefano Demiliani Read more...

15 September 2021

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

SessionSettings, My Settings, Your Settings?

In this video, I try to figure out how the SessionSettings data type works. It’s not really working as documented, but is still very useful, check the video! Source : Hougaard.com Read more...

14 September 2021

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

Business Central 2021 wave 2 (BC19) new features: AL API for sharing files in Microsoft 365 (Cloud Storage and Open in OneDrive)

Since Microsoft does not provide a lot of information for this, I am not sure if the content I write next is related to the title, but it may bring readers a lot of new information is not bad. Okay, when you open the My setting…

13 September 2021

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

Is it a card, is it a list? No, it’s a cardlist, listcard?

Follow me down the rabbit hole of list pages that are also card pages, or vice versa. A recent question trigger an interesting experiment resulting in hybrid pages, take a look: Source : Hougaard.com Read more...

10 September 2021

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

Dynamics 365 Business Central: Converting C/AL objects to .al format (Txt2Al Conversion Tool)

Last week, I was asked if there is any way to convert C/AL objects to .al format. Perhaps there have been more upgrade cases recently, this is a good thing. So today I’d like to talk briefly about this topic in this post. Source : Dynamics…

9 September 2021

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

Text.Split is a great way to parse strings in AL and Business Central

In this video, I show how Text.Split and the List data type makes a great pair for text parsing. The method can avoid lots of copystr-strpos gymnastics. Source : Hougaard.com Read more...

8 September 2021

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

All you need to know about Business Central Webhooks

Webhooks is a great feature introduced in Business Central to notify other applications about data changes occurring in entities. Webhooks are a way for applications to communicate between them automatically. When a record is created / updated / deleted in Business Central, a notification is sent…

8 September 2021