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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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…

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….

What’s new in the Spring 2019 release of Dynamics 365 Business Central?

With the release of spring version new features added/updated in Dynamics Business Central.

  • Application Enhancements
    • Longer name and descriptions across business central . It is increased from 50 characters to 100 characters.
    • Multiple Item selections for Sales & Purchase documents.
    • Merge Duplicate customers, Vendors and contacts.
    • Bulk Import of Item Pictures.
    • View Item ,customer and vendor descriptions in Ledger entries.
  • Save and Personalized List views
  • Focus mode on document pages.
  • AutoSave Indicator
  • Page Inspector.
  • Improvements in Scrolling lists.
  • Customize the theme
  • Application as an App
  • Force Sync when deploying applications
  • Multiple objects ID Ranges in app.json
  • Multiple unique keys
  • Increased Maximum length of texts and code fields, variables and text constants.
  • Event Runtime optimization :- It is now 1.5. to 2.5 times faster

Many more features are there in this new version.

Stay tuned for more.

How to Find Missing Prefix or Suffix -Business Central

As you all are aware the importance of having prefix and suffix in your app. In every extension you design need must have prefix or suffix on objects which include Table Extension, Page extension as well as control parts on pages. Benefits of this is that it will avoid collision of fields between two app which customer would like to install.

As a partner you need to register the prefix or suffix by sending email on d365val@microsoft.com. This will helpful when conflict arise so whosever registered will win.

Now when you convert the app from C/AL to AL then you need to huge task to us Prefix or Suffix in entire project.

To find all missing Prefix/Suffix you can enable AppSourceCoup which will help every time.

How to enable AppsourceCoup and complete ruleset You can visit https://amolsalvi.blog/2019/01/31/code-analysis-ruleset-business-central/

Apart from this you can create json file and mention the required prefix or suffix value as below

 {    "mandatoryPrefix": "ABCD"    } 

Hope this will help …


Code Analysis Ruleset-Business Central


A code analyzer is a library that builds on the compiler’s functionality to offer enhanced analysis of the syntax and semantics of your code at build time

CodeCop is an analyzer that enforces the official AL Coding Guidelines

PerTenantExtensionCop is an analyzer that enforces rules that must be respected by extensions meant to be installed for individual tenants

AppSourceCop is an analyzer that enforces rules that must be respected by extensions meant to be published to Microsoft AppSource

UserInterfaceCop is an analyzer that enforces rules that must be respected by extensions meant to be installed for individual tenants

To enable following rules we can use Code Analysis tools

Following are few rules for every code analysis tool .You can download from following file

Hope this will help you all..

Upcoming features for Business Central

Microsoft releases new release notes for business central .This illustrates planned features for business central.

Major features planned as below

  1. Work Date Indicator
  2. Quick Entry
  3. Autosave Indicator
  4. Page Inspection
  5. Application as an app

All these features are planned for April and September 2019

To find more information you can visit following link

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/business-applications-release-notes/April19/dynamics365-business-central/planned-features

Stay tuned for more…

NAV Tech Days Recorded Session

NAV TechDays is the name of a conference, organized by mibuso.com. This conference meant  technical only and highly relevant – sessions, related NAV and Business Central.

NAV TechDays is the place where some of the best developers and MVP’s exchange ideas and provides more insight of NAV world (oops Business Central)

Few of the session which I think more useful for everybody which listed here on my blog and you can visit them

Practical approaches for upgrading your NAV database and moving to extensions

The future for developers and consultants

Performance: Business Central reloaded for the Cloud

What’s new in Developing for Business Central

Evolution of a titan: a look at the development of NAV from an MVP angle

Business Central: The new face of the client

Crazy mix of integrations: Dynamics 365 Business Central and Azure services

Hope you guys will find it useful