I have always preached that you shouldn’t try to keep your Docker containers running. Containers should be something, which easily can be dismissed and recreated for any developer. One of the frequent questions is then: But what about my demo/development data?
Category Archives: Dynamics NAV
Interface with Power Automate – is it really so easy?
During NAV TechDays 2019 there were a lot of sessions that I would describe as “develop Business Central doing minimum development using AL“. Sounds weird? For me yes… at least at the beginning.
Speakers, such as Arend-Jan Kauffmann (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cp848e9WBFs), showed how to connect Business Central with Power Apps or use Power Automate (previously named Flow) and our BC. And my first impression was – noooo way it can be so easy.
Executing your .exe tasks on a Cloud environment by using Azure Functions
I think that many of you on your Dynamics NAV or Dynamics 365 Business Central projects have tasks executed by using console applications (.exe) scheduled by using Windows Task Scheduler or other systems. This works good for on-premise environments (just take your .exe application, create a new schedule with Windows Task Scheduler and you’re ready to go), but what about using these .exe applications on a SaaS environment?
Putting Queries to Use in Business Central
We’ve had query objects for a while now – since NAV 2013 (I think). In theory they sound great, link a bunch of tables together, aggregate some columns, get distinct values, left join, right join, cross join – executed as a single SQL query.
Why and how to rename all AL-files of your app with the “CRS AL Language Extension”
So now – “let’s get started” with ..
Why would I rename all my AL-files?
Well – because of Microsoft and their new (upcoming) code analysis rule about file name conventions. You might already have complied with their previous conventions, and … they will change. Even better: they actually already changed .. Just read here:
How to Extract Dynamics 365 Business Central Base App
Probably most of you already know that with the Dynamics 365 Business Central Wave 2 release, we have the ability to modify the Base App. But to extract Dynamics 365 Business Central Base App as .al files that would compile might be quite difficult, so in this article, we will talk about how to extract the Dynamics 365 Business Central Base App using Docker, Business Central DVD, and symbols. Also, we will briefly mention how to upload a customized Base App.
How to identify subscriber events in Dynamics 365 Business Central?
Eventing is major part while upgrading to business central, we face alot of customisation done in Customer database which needs to be evented and converted into extension.