BigText – Pardaan.com

BigText variables are for dinosaurs

In this video, I talk and show why you shouldn’t use BigText variables anymore. BigText was the solution to the old 1000 character limitation of the Text type in NAV. Limitations that are long gone with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. Source : Hougaard.com Read more...

5 July 2021

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

How To: Use the Dictionary, RecordID, RecordRef, and BigText Data Types in AL Programming for Dynamics Business Central On Premises

There are many data types that are used in the AL programming language, used to modify code in Dynamics Business Central On Premises. This blog explains how to use the Dictionary, RecordID, RecordRef, and BigText data types. Source : ArcherPoint Read more...

17 June 2019

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

Decode Base64 BigText

With this code you can decode a BigText variable with a Base64 coded string (in this case a PDF document).... abpBigPDFText -> BigText abpAutConvertBase64 -> DotNet 'mscorlib, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089'.System.Convert abpAutBytes -> DotNet 'mscorlib, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089'.System.Array abpAutMemoryStream -> DotNet 'mscorlib, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089'.System.IO.MemoryStream abpOutStream ->…

7 January 2015

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

Clean workaround for wrong special characters in BigText variables

In a previous blogpost about webservices i wrote about saving the result of a xmlport to a bigtext variable and the problems witch charsets and special characters like ä,ö,ü etc. Originaly i did a conversion from of the whole output from ansi2ascii which worked but was…

30 August 2012

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

Using BigText in a Report

As you properly know BigText can be used to handle large texts. BigText is stored in records as Blob fields, so what to do if you like to use the BigText in a Report? Bron : TechBlog Lees meer...

27 July 2011