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Notes by Tonya Bricco-Meske

Tag: Business Central

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#HumpDayHacks – Reset Page Numbers on RDLC Report Layout

February 11, 2025 Tonya Bricco-Meske, Microsoft MVPLeave a comment

When working with RDLC report layouts, there are many different properties available to aide in customization. This blog post will focus on how you can reset page numbers on RDLC reports, specifically when “batch printing” more than one document.

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Business Central Refreshable Excel Reports in BC25

Business Central Refreshable Excel Reports in BC25

November 23, 2024 Tonya Bricco-Meske, Microsoft MVP3 Comments

Connecting Excel to Business Central is getting even easier in the 2024 wave 2 release (BC25). The biggest change from my original blog post – no more hardcoding Tenant Ids, and we even have some help with named formulas to make development even faster!

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Queries for report datasets

Queries for report datasets

November 5, 2024February 26, 2025 Tonya Bricco-Meske, Microsoft MVP1 Comment

When we talk about reporting and analytics it’s no longer just the world of RDL and Word Report layouts or Power BI. We have Excel Report layouts, Ad-hoc Data Analysis with queries and page Analyze Data feature. This blog post will focus on how to use a query when building out your report dataset.

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#HumpDayHacks with Tonya Bricco-Meske Visual Studio Code

#HumpDayHacks – Copilot Edits in VS Code

October 30, 2024 Tonya Bricco-Meske, Microsoft MVPLeave a comment

The new October, 2024 release for Visual Studio Code is pretty magnificent for Business Central Developers. ✨ This blog post is going to be dedicated to working with Copilot Edits in VS Code.

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What are Queries, and why should we use them

What are Queries, and why should we use them

October 8, 2024October 8, 2024 Tonya Bricco-Meske, Microsoft MVP1 Comment

A query object is used to collect and read data from Business Central. The data will always be retrieved from SQL, meaning that you may not get the dynamic data that is currently in the middle of being processed. What makes a query object more powerful than reading from a table object is the ability to join multiple tables in one “dataset”.

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UsageCategory: what is it, and why is it important

UsageCategory: what is it, and why is it important

August 19, 2024 Tonya Bricco-Meske, Microsoft MVPLeave a comment

When using templates to create AL objects for MicrosoftDynamics 365 Business Central, there are often many properties that are listed by default. If they are part of a template, then they must be important. So one question I had from new developers is what is a UsageCategory, and why should we be setting it.

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