There have been a few subtle improvements to NAV 2018 compared to NAV 2017. While most of the improvement relates to behind the scenes in readiness for Dynamics 365 Business Central, here are a few key improvements to make life easier for the Finance user
Dynamics 365 Business Central: publishing a web service from extensions
In these days I received a (not so common I think) request: how can I have an extension for Dynamics 365 Business Central that, when installed, it automatically published some pages as web services in D365BC?
Viewing Table Data in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
In older NAV versions, developers and users(with required permissions) can view the table data by running tables directly from the Object Designer of NAV Development Environment.
But now with Business Central we have new Modern Development Environment for AL programming.
Creating a Hyperlink with filters through DAX
Thanks to two recent Power BI features it now possible to generate a link on the fly using DAX to go to a new report and pass in any filters. (Alsop imagine linking to your favorite SSRS report !)
Business Central W1 Docker image with data
I’m using Docker quite regularly (well, if you find “pulling an image twice a day” is regular) .. and I have been using mostly these two repositories according my needs (for more info, look here):
“bcinsider.azurecr.io/bcsandbox-master” for the very latest version (the future release)
“microsoft/bcsandbox” for the current release
Export C/AL objects as AL from a database on a docker container on a remote host
As you might have figured in quite some sessions, threads and posts, I’m quite fond running docker images on a remote Hyper-V on my laptop. From the moment it was described by Arend Jan, I’m using it. In my opinion, it’s a much better way to run, because Windows Server is so much better in memory management as Windows 10 is (in regards of Docker that is).
Using Html.Table() To Extract URLs From A Web Page In Power BI/Power Query M
Last year I blogged about how to use the Text.BetweenDelimiters() function to extract all the links from the href attributes in the source of a web page. The code was reasonably simple but there’s now an even easier way to solve the same problem using the new Html.Table() function.