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Codeunit API’s in Business Central

What I’m going to show here is officially not supported (yet). It is an undocumented feature that already exists for a couple of years. I believe it can even be used in Dynamics NAV 2018 and maybe earlier versions as well. In fact, Microsoft uses this…

10 March 2020

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

Dynamics 365 Business Central: handling BLOB fields on APIs

I’m not a big fan of using BLOB fields on the Dynamics 365 Business Central database, but there are many scenarios where you need to handle BLOBs inside the database directly. As an example, imagine to have an application that handles different types of labels related…

29 January 2020

Data & Analysis

Power BI APIs for Non-Programmers

There was an announcement made a few weeks ago by Microsoft that nearly slipped under my radar. I don’t always read the more technical announcements because I don’t have a highly technical background. Luckily I read this particular announcement as it contained a nugget of gold…

27 June 2019

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

Using Dynamics 365 Business Central APIs in Microsoft Graph

Dynamics 365 Business Central is now one of the available endpoints in Microsoft Graph and I think this is a great way (and alternative to standard APIs) for interacting with the platform. To work with Dynamics 365 Business Central in Microsoft Graph, you first need to…

15 March 2019

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

Using complex types with custom APIs

Out-of-the-box Business Central APIs often use complex types. Addresses on entities and documents, line details, units of measures, journal dimensions, these are just a few examples. There may be more. A typical instance of a complex type looks like this: Bron : Vjeko.com Lees meer...

5 March 2019

Data & Analysis

Creating Map Small Multiples In Power BI With The Azure Maps API

Since my post last week on using the Google Image Charts API to create sparklines and small multiples in Power BI has proved very popular, I thought I would do a follow-up showing how to use the Azure Maps API to create map small multiples. Here’s…

31 August 2018

Data & Analysis

Creating Sparklines And Small Multiples In Power BI Using The Google Image Charts API

The excellent work that David Eldersveld has been doing recently on using SVG images in Power BI has generated a lot of interest; now that the August 2018 release of Power BI Desktop allows you to set data categories on measures – and specifically the Image…

29 August 2018