Today I would like to talk about how to add Media or MediaSet data type (Pictures) to a report in Business Central.
As you might know, there are two ways that you can upload media in Business Central:
Tag Archives: MediaSet
Business Central 2023 wave 1 (BC22): Discovers all orphaned media/media sets (New Media.FindOrphans/MediaSet.FindOrphans method)
This new feature is not mentioned in the 2023 wave1 release plan, but it is in Business Central Launch Event (2023 release wave 1) and AL Language extension changelog version 11.0.
Media.FindOrphans & MediaSet.FindOrphans: New methods for finding media and media sets that are no longer referenced, and can be deleted.
How To Use Media Data Types In Business Central?
In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central we can use Media and MediaSet Data Types to store images, or other types of documents. In this post, you will learn how to use them, and how to create a process to import and export images. Also, you will learn the differences between them and blob types.
Guidelines for Partners: Media file management using MediaSet
Media, such as images are frequently used in Dynamics 365 Business Central. To work with media files, you need to learn about file handling. This blog post introduces Media, Mediaset data types, and how to upload and download images using MediaSet in Dynamics Business Central 365.
Working with Mediaset References in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2017
Mediaset is a new data type introduced with Dynamics NAV 2017. Read the documentation here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics-nav/mediaset-data-type.
When working with the Mediaset data type you might want to copy its content from one table to another table but not the same reference.
MediaSet fields in Queries
When designing queries in Dynamics NAV you’ll get an error i CSide if you include a BLOB field, but no error if you include a MediaSet field. At runtime, you’ll get this strange error: