February 2020 – Page 2

Quick tip: Create your preview environments for Business Central 2020 Release Wave 1

Learn how to prepare for major updates with preview environments: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/administration/preview-environments Are you interested to test out all the new bells and whistles of BC version 16, then create your preview sandbox as follows. Source : Think about IT Read more...

24 February 2020

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

Tiles – what to do to have nice bricks?

If you are used to doing everything in the Windows client (and I know there are still a lot of people to do so) you were not taking into consideration how the tiles on the lists look like in the web client. Me either – until…

21 February 2020

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

Managing Business Central Development with Git: Amending History

This is the start of a series of posts about managing AL development with Git. I don’t profess to be a Git expert and much of what I write about will not exclusively apply to Business Central development. This is a collection of approaches I’ve found…

20 February 2020

Data & Analysis

An M Function To Help You Explore Power Query Diagnostics Data

Last week’s post showed an M function that took Power Query diagnostics data and formatted in a way that made it suitable for visualisation in a Power BI Decomposition Tree visual. This is great for understanding what’s going on at a high level, but by doing…

20 February 2020

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

How do I: Create a report based upon a query?

Performance wise it can be very interesting to use query objects as a data-source in a report (or any other object). Imagine you want to create a report that shows the top X records from a table, let’s say for example Customers, then creating a report…

19 February 2020

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

CI/CD in NAV / Business Central Development using Azure DevOps

Azure DevOps is a very handy tool to manage project tasks, milestones, bugs, and documentation. But it is not just limited to that, it can also be used to manage all your deployments and building pipelines to manage your deployments. Lets take a look how to…

19 February 2020

Data & Analysis

How do I: Add a drill-through to see records in Power BI Desktop?

Imagine you have created an amazing Power BI report that summarizes information using different visuals. Power BI Desktop lets you build advanced queries, models, and reports that visualize data and the idea is that the individual records that come from your data source are aggregated and…

18 February 2020