The preview of Business Central 2021 Wave 2 (release 19) was released
It is only possible to create Sandbox preview and non-production environments; the preview environments are for demonstration purposes only and to have their functionality tested, they are removed at most thirty days after the official release of the product.
Now lets get ready to explore new features with Wave 2 2021
Stay tuned for more.
As we are gearing up for new release of business central and already the buzz is started for new version . Here I will list few upcoming features which I am looking forward in new version.
Following features I am looking forward.
Richer access control for extension source in cloud environments
Add additional columns through personalization in various pages to gain more insight
Profiling AL performance with snapshot debugger
Transactional installation and sync of extensions on-premises
Unhindered data entry across rows
Decimal separator on numeric keypad matches region setting
Discovering reports and administration areas in Role Explorer
Copying environments of different types
Do let me know yours…
With the release of Business Central Wave 1 2020 XML comments is available in AL code.
If you would like to add documentation to your code then you can use XML documentation .The documentation comment must immediately before the object such as codeunit,table,functions etc.
The syntax for adding XML comments in your code is triple slashes /// followed by one of the supported XML tags. There is IntelliSense support for writing documentation comments. Most importantly providing a template documentation comment when writing the third slash in the triple slash.
These documentation comments are visible when hovering over source symbols.
Advantage :
Let sees an example how we can add the xml comments.
Created one simple code unit where we can add documentation comments.
Please note that If you have the showMyCode setting in the app.json file set to false and download an app package; the app package will not contain any XML comments.
Hope this will help you.
With the release of Business Central Wave 1 2020 new feature added to delete the extension data from production or sandbox. Prior to that we can uninstall the extension but data still there for the extension.
This feature will be useful when
1) Application is not in use.
2) Customer have desire to reinstall the extension data from scratch.
Let see how to uninstall and delete the extension data.
1) Launch the business central and search for extension management.
2) Select the required extension for uninstall. In this you can see new option added for delete extension data .
3) After selecting the option then you will get following warning message.
4) After click ‘YES’ then you can see ‘Delete Extension Data’ will get enable as follows
5) After that you can click on Uninstall then system will again warn before starting deleting data from extension.
6) If you are sure then click ‘YES’ and it will start processing to delete the data. This can not be undone.
Hope this will help and stay tuned for more.
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With the release of Business Central Wave 1 2020 the partial records capability is available.
The partial records capability is allows for loading a subset of normal table fields when accessing the data source based on SQL.
To access the data source we use GET ,FIND NEXT. When we use these methods then runtime it load all fields and will hamper the performance while fetching the records.
Now from business central wave 2 2020 we can use ‘Partial records’ capability.
To accommodate partial records following methods available in business central. These methods are avaaible on RecordRef and Record datatype in AL. These methods are loaded in two groups i.e. Subsequent loads and Current load
| Method | Description |
| SetLoadFields | Specifies a set of fields to be initially loaded when the record is retrieved from its data source. |
| AddLoadFields | Adds fields to the current set of fields to be initially loaded when the record is retrieved from its data source. |
| AreFieldsLoaded | Checks whether the specified fields are all initially loaded. |
| LoadFields | Accesses the table’s corresponding data source to load the specified fields. |
Lets See few examples of these methods
Following example is for summation of Quantity fields from Item Ledger Entry .In this we would like to make calculation of only Quantity fields and not require the others fields to be loaded.
If you see SetLoadFields is call before data fetching operation starts. This will determine which fields needed for Find Set Call.
Advantage of this is that it gives you ability to load only those fields which are required to perform the operation which will make execution of code faster and give more performance. This feature is recommended to use while fetching the records and not for Insert,Modify or Delete operation.
Using the above method we added the required fields but what will happen to other fields which hasn’t been loaded .In such cases platform does an implicit GET and loads the missing fields, called as JIT Loading (Just in Time).
When JIT loading occurs, another access to the data source is required. These operations tend to be faster because they’re GET calls. GET calls can often be served by the server’s data cache or become clustered index seeks on the database.
Iterating over records in the database, enumerator is created based on selected fields and row is fetched when NEXT is called. but certain operations will not follow enumerator like if we passing a record by value and not by VAR .This operation actually creates new copy of the record and original records and copy of the record not share the filters ,selected field for loading. That means to access unloaded fields it need to trigger JIT load and but it will not update enumerator which means for future iterations also require JIT load.
To overcome such situations we can do following
Hope this will help you to understand for partial records and stay tuned for more updates.
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Though above warning was informed by MS long time back but it has introduced in latest version of AL.
With the update of new version of AL extension this warning is populated in AL code.
Once you update above AL language version then you will find below warning
Now this warning will become error in near future that means we need to correct it anyhow . If your app contain more than 100 pages then it will be too much efforts to make it manually and tedious task.
To make it superfast work we have one extension available in marketplace which will help you to resolve it within seconds.
Once you install the extension then Press ‘F1’ and run following command
‘Fix Implicit with usages’
Just have look at the following file
Now run above command and relax as it will fix the warning in all pages.
Result of the file after running command
It will fix the all warning in all the files.
Hope this will help you
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Today morning I update AL extension with the latest version as below
After update I found following issue for Per Tenant app and was not able to find any clue for this issue
To resolve the issue decided to roll back to latest update and it works fine but it is not giving the latest updates for AL
Then I decided to ask our beloved community
MVP https://twitter.com/ajkauffmann gave the solution to resolve this
Actually I was doing mistake in App Source Analyzer that I enabled both AppsourceCop and PerTenantExtensionCop for PerTenant App which was not correct
This is actually not correct because we need enable code analyzer like
If developing App within Certified App range (70M) then enable AppsoureCop and if developing app for Tenant then enable PerTenantExtensionCop.
This resolve my issue.
Hope this will help you..
You can go through the twitter thread.
With the new dawn of 1st October Microsoft released Business Central Wave 2 2020.
This version is available for following
The product DVD will be downloaded from following URL
Few features of Business Central you can visit this link
Business Central Wave 2 2020 Features
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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:
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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:
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