Tag: Business Central

🎃Trick or Treat with AI 👻

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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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Now is the time to modernize with Microsoft D365 Business Central

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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.

#msdyn365bc #businesscentral

Get Started Developing for BC: Docker Containers

Get Started Developing for BC: Docker Containers

Tonya Bricco-Meske, Microsoft MVP3 Comments

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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Working with Fieldgroups

Tonya Bricco-Meske, Microsoft MVPLeave a comment

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.

It should have been a simple table extension

fieldgroups

    {​​

        addlast(DropDown; "Address 2") {​​ }​​

    }​​

After making this code change Address 2 still wasn’t showing up in the drop down. So what were we missing?

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Get Started Developing for BC: Installs!

Tonya Bricco-Meske, Microsoft MVP1 Comment

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.

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