Dynamics 365 Business Central at the moment uses full-text search for finding data. If you go for example to the Search in company data feature and search for desk, you can find where desk is used on records:
Tag Archives: Search
The Business Central “Data Search” app (under the hood)
One of the things that totally slipped by me, is the new app from Microsoft that apparently was released in the last wave called “Data Search“.
It’s a simple, but powerful concept: Search for “any” record in your data. Well, any record that you have set up to search for at least ;-).
Dynamics 365 Business Central: Search for Specific Data (Search in company data)
Starting with Business Central 2022 wave 2 (BC21), when you want to find a particular record or value, use the Search for Data feature to look for it. Start a search on your Role Center in the following ways:
Business Central – Search in company data (preview)
Interesting functionality (still in preview mode, textual, non-graphic and for now without dependencies between documents), both to be used and to make demos to prospects (functionality also present in other ERPs in graphical mode).
SQL – Search for special characters
Sometimes it may happen that by importing data from external sources (even with Web Services), some special characters are written and then uploaded to NAV \ Business Central.
These characters (even if accepted) could then give problems to searches, XML exports, blocking the sending of documents.
Dynamics 365 Business Central: Cross-column search (OR filters on multiple fields) ★FilterGroup(-1)
Yesterday we discussed how to count the same value of different fields in one line (For example, how many “OK” in a line) in Business Central, I received a lot of feedback, which was much appreciated.
Search for a string (or a TAG) in .al files with Powershell
Migrating, upgrading, recoding & refactoring the older versions of Dynamics NAV to Business Central you will (or can find) find a lot of documentation tracked both in the Documentation and development notes \ TAG sections within the code.