Cumulative Update for Business Central September 2020

Cumulative Update includes all application and platform hotfixes and regulatory features that have been released for Microsoft Dynamics Business Central

MS Dynamics Business Central 2020 Wave 1 (BC16) :- CU 16.5

MS Dynamics 365 Business Central 2019 Release Wave 2(15.10) :- CU 15.10

Business Central Spring Release (BC16) :- CU16

Warning

Before you install a cumulative update in a production environment, take the following precautions:

  1. Test the cumulative update in a non-production environment.
  2. Make a backup of the system or computer where the cumulative update is to be installed.

Stay tuned for more updates…

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Cumulative Update for Business Central August 2020

Cumulative Update includes all application and platform hotfixes and regulatory features that have been released for Microsoft Dynamics Business Central

MS Dynamics Business Central 2020 Wave 1 (BC16) :- CU 16.4

MS Dynamics 365 Business Central 2019 Release Wave 2(15.9) :- CU 15.9

Business Central Spring Release (BC14) :- CU15

Warning

Before you install a cumulative update in a production environment, take the following precautions:

  1. Test the cumulative update in a non-production environment.
  2. Make a backup of the system or computer where the cumulative update is to be installed.

Stay tuned for more updates…

Cumulative Update Summary February 2020

Cumulative Update includes all application and platform hotfixes and regulatory features that have been released for Microsoft Dynamics NAV.

Microsoft Dynamics 365 BC 2019 Spring CU9 :- BCSpring2019CU9

Microsoft Dynamics 365 BC October’18 CU16 :- BCOctober2018CU16

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2018 CU 26 :- NAV2018CU26

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2017 CU 39 :- NAV 2017 CU39

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 CU 52 :- NAV 2017 CU52

Warning

Before you install a cumulative update in a production environment, take the following precautions:

  1. Test the cumulative update in a non-production environment.
  2. Make a backup of the system or computer where the cumulative update is to be installed.

Stay tuned for more updates…

Business Central :How to Customize Base App

This blog explains how to customize the base app of business central (old fashion) .

Please Don’t customize the base app, Use extension wherever possible

Step 1 :- Copy Base Application from installer

Step 2 :- Unzip in designated folder .This contains app.json file where in target set to onprem

app.json will look like this

Step 3 :- Download the symbols

Step 4:- Add the following in either user settings/workspace settings . This is required for .NET DLL used in application

Step 5 :- Unpublish the base application and dependencies or else you will get an error stating that extension already deployed on tenant

Use following PowerShell command

Unpublish-NavApp -Name “Base Application” -ServerInstance BC150

Step 6:- Import license file and publish the modified app.

Hope this will help you.

Keyboard Shortcut :- Business Central & VS Code

For my previous contribution on business central please visit this link

This blog contains keyboard shortcut for business central and VS code while will make our life easier while navigating and developing business central extension aka app.

Hope this will help you…

CU01 for Business Central Spring Release 2019

Cumulative Update includes all application and platform hotfixes and regulatory features that have been released for Microsoft Dynamics NAV.

Microsoft Dynamics Business Central Spring Release CU 01 :- BC CU01

Warning

Before you install a cumulative update in a production environment, take the following precautions:

  1. Test the cumulative update in a non-production environment.
  2. Make a backup of the system or computer where the cumulative update is to be installed.

Stay tuned for more updates…

Business Central-Field Length change in Tables

This spring release of business central comes up with changes in field length of tables as below.

You can check those tables and fields in following file

Hope this will help you specially while upgrade.

Please follow Waldo’s blog for more information on above subject.http://www.waldo.be/2019/05/14/microsoft-dynamics-365-business-central-spring-update-changed-some-field-lengths/

Stay tuned for more.

How to search Pages using Additional Search Terms in Business Central

All of you aware of ‘Tell Me‘ features of business central where you can search pages ,reports by key in name .

Today we will see how to search page apart from default page name .

To achieve this we need to add additional parameters in list pages as follows

Compile the object and search the page using additional terms in web client

Now from web client search the page using additional terms defined in list page

Hope this will help you

Stay tuned for more..

How to Create Unique Keys in AL Development/Business Central

Spring Release 2019 of business central comes up with new features for creating unique keys

Today we will see how to create unique keys in table

While creating second keys you can add an additional parameters said ‘Unique’. This will not allow duplicate values in the field where unique parameter is mentioned.

Now we will see this validation works on business central. Here we are trying put same description which is throwing error because of unique key.

You can define multiple unique keys in one table.

Points to Remember

  • Field can have empty value that means empty value is also value.
  • Not supported in table extensions.

Hope this will help you ..

How to Create Views in AL Development/Business Central

Now you all are aware the importance of creating views in windows client as it save the time of applying filters on the list of records. You can save the view with required filters and use it for future as it show the required data based on saved filters which improves productivity of users

Today we will see how we can create views in AL language.

Following examples illustrates how to create view from item list where inventory is greater than 10000.

In this example create new profile and added views in item list as below

Even you can apply more filters and order by also. As well as you can modify the page layout for the views as per your requirement

Publish the extension and open the business central web client .From setting change the profile and go to item List.

In the above picture you can see views has been added into the item list. Once you click on that view you can see the details as per define in views.

Following points need to remember.

  1. Can not use variables and methods .Can use only table fields
  2. Can not create new page controls from view.
  3. You can modify views from extension or customizations.

Hope you like this way of creating views in business central .Anyhow in upcoming versions there will option available on web client to create views as like windows client.

Cheers….