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…

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Business Central : Deprecated and Obsolete Fields

With the new version of business central wave 2 ,number of fields have been deprecated or obsolete

1) Fields moved to an extension by Microsoft

2) Fields marked as Obsolete:Pending

3) Fields no longer in use in Microsoft code

Impact of this is to refactor your solution as soon as possible

For more information of which field get deprecated visit this link Deprecated Fields

Hope this will help you…

How to Set Company Badge in Business Central

For earlier blog post on business central you can follow the  Link

This blog post explains how to set company badge in business central wave 2 . With this new feature one can add a customized badge in the top right corner from which we can identified company name.

Only four characters are allowed for key in and display.

If a company badge is defined, then you cannot change the company name

Hope this will help you and keep exploring.

Business Central Wave 2- Menu Suite

New feature added in business central Menusuite where in one can explore all modules just like earlier . You can check from below.

But at the moment this page in preview mode and subject to change in upcoming updates… Till then we can explore ….

Business Central Wave 2-Upload License

With the release of business central wave 2 No Developer environment ,so question comes how to upload customer/developer license in database.

Powershell command comes to rescue in this environment. Following few commands will help you to upload the license.

Step 1 :- Open windows PowerShell ISE as Administrator

Step 2:- Import Module for Business Central Wave 2 .Use following command

Import-Module 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central\150\Service\NavAdminTool.ps1'

Step 3 :- Add following command to import the license

Import-NAVServerLicense -LicenseFile 'C:\Cronus.flf' -ServerInstance BC150

Step 4 :- Restart Service

Restart-NAVServerInstance -ServerInstance BC150

Step 5 :- See the information of License

Export-NAVServerLicenseInformation -ServerInstance BC150

Hope this will help you. Explore more..

*** Change path of license file and Service name according to your configuration

Business Central Wave 2 Released

So most awaited Business Central release ‘Wave 2’ released on 1st October

Download Link https://mbs.microsoft.com/partnersource/global/support/support-news/bconpremdownload_2019_wave2

Licensing Guide

https://mbs.microsoft.com/partnersource/global/pricing-ordering/licensing-policies/Dyn365BusinessCentralPricingLicensing

Business Central Docs

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/product-get-started

New and Planned Features

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365-release-plan/2019wave2/dynamics365-business-central/planned-features

Lets Explore and Stay Tunes for more

CU02 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 :- BCCU02

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…

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…

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..

Page Inspection in Business Central

Till NAV 2018 we have features called as ‘About this page’ which is very useful to analyze the business data or deep insight the table for those fields which are not visible on main page or sub page.

In business central this features replaced with Page Inspection with more features.

How do I enable Page inspection

Choosing inspect from top menu or by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F1

You can see box on right size which shows details for current record.

Top Features

  1. Page name with id
  2. Table Name with id
  3. All table fields
  4. Extension name which extend this page
  5. Applied Filters.

Stay tuned for more