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!
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Get Started Developing for BC: Installs!
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.
Read More »Create a large Textbox in 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.
Read More »BC Excels at Reporting
I had the honor of presenting at DynamicsCon Live in Scottsdale, Arizona about one of the newer features in Business Central. You can now create and run Excel Report Layouts from Business Central (without any apps or custom code!)
Excel is the most popular spreadsheet system. At one point in time we all probably listed “proficient in Excel” on our resumes. Now is the time to dust up on all the functions and advanced processing capabilities within Excel to slice and dice your data from BC.
Excel Report Layouts were introduced in Business Central version 2022 Wave 1 (BC20).
Read More »ValuesAllowed property in BC
I was working on a task where it was suggested to create an Option field so we had a shorter list of values available to users. When I got into the nitty gritty of development and was trying to set the value from an Enum I was getting a warning “An implicit conversion is being performed from a value of type ‘Enum xxx’ to a value of type ‘Option’. This conversion can lead to unexpected runtime issues. This warning will become an error in a future release.” I know there are ways to do conversions, but do I really need to use an option? Wouldn’t it be nice to just use the Enum?
I then stumbled across the ability to limit the (enum) values available to users. You can set this with the ValuesAllowed property on Tables or Pages. All you have to do is separate the values with a comma.
Read More »Embedded Report Layouts in Business Central
You have created a new Report Layout that you want embedded within Business Central. Instead of uploading the layout file in each company as a Custom Layout, we now have the ability to “upload” the layout when publishing the app to a Business Central environment.
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BC Development Notebook 