This post is about the system app Regex. It provides a set of functions that are quite useful when working with text search and replace. If you have a pattern, validations for e-mail, url, phone no. etc. can be done with a single line of code. Four main methods offered by Regex app are IsMatch, Match, Replace and Split. These methods are available with different overloads.
Tag Archives: App
Remember, your app is also a webpage!
The other day, we were struggling to fit a lot of information on a page in BC when I suddenly realized that my app is also “just” a web page and that I shouldn’t be afraid of thinking about the app as a webpage. Check out the video:
I failed at future-proofing an App, or did I?
What do you do to future-proof your apps, and do you sleep when at night when Microsoft rolls out new versions of Business Central? In this video I take a look at why one of my apps didn’t work on v21, check it out:
Automated deploy of apps to Business Central with dependencies
One of the things that can be really annoying in Dynamics NAV or Business Central is the dependent apps.
What are dependent apps?
Some partners have made a base app that will contain all the basic functionality, that they use with all customers. Then they create apps that can be added to the solution but basing the solution on some data or functionality from the base app.
Dynamics 365 Business Central: handling a checklist for your apps
One of the onboarding features available in Dynamics 365 Business Central is the possibility to assign a checklist of tasks to a role in order to help users to complete setups or other configuration quickly and without forgotting things:
How to Extract BC 365 Base App using artifacts
Probably most of you already know that with the Dynamics 365 Business Central 2019 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. As you have probably noticed, picture/image functionality on Docker is becoming outdated in Business Central 365 latest releases.
Forbidden Knowledge: How To Find Field Values from External Apps in Business Central
I was working on a report in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central recently, and the client wanted the report to show a value from an extension that was not a dependency for my customizations app. Because I am lazy efficient, I did not want to go to the trouble of adding an entire separate app as a dependency just to get a single field onto one report. Adding dependencies is a lot of work and requires future maintenance, and it just wasn’t worth it.