When Microsoft initially introduced ALDoc, I was enthusiastic about testing it as soon as I could access the AL pre-release. However, my attempts to follow the official documentation resulted in disappointment as nothing worked as described.
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Guidelines for Partners: Code Analysis Tools
A code analyzer is a library that builds on the compiler’s functionality to offer enhanced analysis of the syntax and semantics of your code at build time. AL code analyzers are used in order for the code to be more readable and orderly, most of the rules, if enabled, return warnings, but there are information messages and errors as well.
Simplanova Objects Usage Log Tool
Upgrading your customers’ solutions from Dynamics NAV to Business Central starts with analysis and defining the project scope. Simplanova knows that this process takes time and discussion with the customer, which is usually non-billable hours so, to make this process easier and based on statistics, we have released free objects usage log tool for all versions of Dynamics NAV (now supports all versions up to BC 14.00!)
Dynamics 365 Business Central: Converting C/AL objects to .al format (Txt2Al Conversion Tool)
Last week, I was asked if there is any way to convert C/AL objects to .al format. Perhaps there have been more upgrade cases recently, this is a good thing. So today I’d like to talk briefly about this topic in this post.
Cloud migration tool scheduling issue
Some news if you use Cloud Migration Tool (aka Intelligent Edge) in Business Central. And not very good news.
Migration scheduled runs are not working now. Honestly they totally disappeared from functionality. I created support request to Microsoft and answer is “they’ll back in release 2021 wave 2”. Stunning. I understand that only few customers use this in production (on my mind) but now we have to run migration manually when we need data from on-premise in SaaS.
Creating a Time intelligence “External Tools” app for Power BI Desktop
With the release of the July 2020 version of Power BI desktop we can create tools that can interreact with the Power BI Desktop model directly using an external tool. With this interaction you can make changes to the model in a programmatic way. There are so opportunities things this will open up. You can think of a tool that would allow you to edit the model like Tabular Editor or query like DAX Studio (which both already work as external tools).
Dependency Analysis Tool (ALDependencyAnalysis)
Remember this post? Probably not. Nearly a year ago at Directions US, I showed some “how did I do stuff” during a number of sessions. And it ended with a lot of feedback, which came down to: “can I have it”? So, that’s where I wrote a post “I have work to do” ;-).
The “DevOps”-part of the work is done: ALOps is available and well used :-).
But the second promise – the “Dependency Analysis”, I only completed in November 2019 – and totally forgot to blog about it. In my defense – I did explain it at NAVTechDays, and that video IS online. You can find it here: NAV TechDays 2019 – Development Methodologies for the future (This is a link to the point in the video that explains the “dependency analysis” part).