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Dynamics 365 Business Central: How to quickly get field length from table number and field number

Today I would like to share another mini tip about Business Central, how to quickly get field length from table number and field number in AL. Source : Dynamics 365 Lab Read more...

20 June 2024

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

Increasing the length of non-PK fields

Though this blog posts will feature some AppSourceCop rules, you should be aware of this topic if you develop any kind of app that other apps have (or might have) a dependency on. Source : The BC Docs Librarian Read more...

22 January 2024

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

Dynamics 365 Business Central: How to get the id, type, length and value of a field by its text name (field name)

Yesterday I saw an interesting question on the D365 forum, how to use field name to find field id. More details: finding the id of a field using the field name only by using the recref and fieldref So, in this post, I would like to…

10 August 2023

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Spring update changed “some” field lengths

For long, we (as a partner community) have been asking for longer field lengths. And this time, Microsoft seems to have delivered: about 860 field lengths were changed. Mostly from Text50 to Text100, but also from Text30 to Text50 and so on. For your convenience, I…

4 June 2019

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

Now with the longest fields!

This is a great blog post to write. A long time ago I bitched about the artificial limit we still had, inherited from the old native database. Read it here for a quick refresher https://www.hougaard.com/nav2017s-inheritance-from-the-native-database/ Luckily for all of us, Kennie https://twitter.com/KennieNP from Microsoft actually reads…

17 April 2019

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

NAV2018: Fields That Have Been Stretched

The other day I had to update the objects I use in my training, from 2017 and 2018. Not a lot altogether, thus easy to do this manually and have a look at the changes. I was glad to have to do this as it showed…

3 January 2018

Dynamics NAV & BC Tips & tricks

Microsoft Dynamics NAV How To: Retrieve the Field Length Using RecRef

This function uses RecRef and RecField to find the Item field number and return the field length of that field number. Bron : Peter Musu Blog Lees meer...

9 April 2015