If you are working with reports that need to display dates in chronological order, you might be tempted to create a separate table just for that purpose. For example you might want to show the actual and planned production output for each day, week, month, quarter, year, etc. However, creating and maintaining such a table can be tedious and time-consuming. Fortunately, there is a better way to handle dates in Business Central.
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After writing my last blog post BC23 Rich Text content on Reports I was asked if I would consider doing a small pull request to the Microsoft Learn docs article that details how to use rich text content on RDL report layouts for Business Central. The process itself was pretty easy, so I wanted to share how you too can improve the Business Central documentation and contribute.
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My most recent project has large footers being added to the bottom of their reports to display Terms and Conditions. This is something fairly common that is requested, and I’ve always shied away from hard-coding anything inside the report layout. If an address changes, then they have to get a developer involved to change the text vs being able to modify it themselves on a setup page. You could use a blob field to store all of the Terms and Conditions, but then you had no way to format a giant block of text, until now. ✨Business Central version 23 now has the power of leveraging the built-in rich text editor, and we can display that formatted text on our reports (with a few gotchas).
I recently had the pleasure of sitting down with Mary Myers, MVP and Chief Maximizer at WorldMax to start teaching her some of the basics of AL Development within VS Code. Any time you get to chat with Mary is a treat, especially when you get to share your love of developing for Business Central. Mary knows Business Central business logic, and she’s a sorceress when it comes to Power Platform integrations, but she is not an AL developer. Throughout her day to day work she’s improved her productivity by leveraging AI, so before our meeting she asked ChatGPT for some help. Mary knew enough technical lingo to formulate the following question:
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Is your business still on Navision or have you fallen behind on Business Central updates? Business Central has seen incredible transformations over the past five years, but there is another major change on the horizon. April, 2025 Microsoft will be introducing the next stepping stone in your upgrade path. Read more about it in my first RSM blog here.
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Docker is a platform for developing, shipping and running applications inside of containers. A container is a lightweight, portable and self-sufficient environment that isolates applications to ensure that they run consistently throughout the development lifecycle. Docker containers are used by a wide variety of software developers because they can isolate their development environment from the host system, which prevents conflicts with other software or system configurations. What this means is we can work in an environment tailored specifically to Business Central Development that we know will be consistent.
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