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.
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.
Last week we had a fairly straight-forward request to add the “Address 2” field to the Ship-To Address drop down. Microsoft Learn documentation describes Field Groups as table or table extension objects used to define the fields to display in a drop-down control on pages that use the table.
I am all for improving efficiency within Business Central, and this new feature in Business Central 2023 release wave 2 (coming in October) is at the top of my list for new features I am excited about!
My goal with this blog is to fill some of the gaps on documentation within the Business Central community. If you are new to developing in AL, I am glad you are here! Maybe you are a seasoned NAV or BC developer who needs a refresher on how to setup your workstation. In that case, I am happy to help! Overall, this will be a guide of some of the “essentials” for developing in AL for Business Central.
If you have worked with Business Central, I’m sure you have added a field to a page with the property MultiLine = true The problem is that you are limited to only 3 lines of text before you get a scroll bar. This can be annoying to a user, as they have to scroll to see all of their text. We can use a controladdin from Microsoft to “embed” our own textbox, meaning we can make it however big we want it.
BC Development Notebook 