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Synchronizing countries from D365 Sales to D365 Business Central
Surprisingly, the out-of-the-box integration between Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central does not synchronize countries. Why? Because it could be hard to maintain this synchronization as, by default, the country field in D365 Sales is just a plain text field (and, as you know, in Business Central, we have a standalone Country/Region table). The main problem here is not the synchronization itself but possible data inconsistency (as users in D365 Sales can type any value in the country field and the synchronization won't be able to figure out the correct country in Business Central). However, you can customize D365 and limit possible values or add some form of validation. This can be done relatively quickly, and once you have such validation in place,...
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Synchronizing countries from D365 Sales to D365 Business Central
Surprisingly, the out-of-the-box integration between Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central does not synchronize countries. Why? Because it could be hard to maintain this synchronization as, by default, the country field in D365 Sales...
Dynamics NAV 2013 & Expired Cronus License
We found an interesting problem - we were not able to run the development environment for Dynamics NAV 2013. Whenever we tried to run the development client, we got the following error message: "Your program license has expired" and the development client has closed...
Using Power Automate for telemetry alerts
Using Power Automate for telemetry alerts Note: This flow is created from this template: App Insights Monitoring Alert Email | Microsoft Power Automate; however, I made a few changes to the structure/flow to support our requirements better. Telemetry (Application...
CU 2023/11 for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central on-premises has been released
The cumulative update 2023/11 for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (2022 wave 2, 2023 wave 1 and 2023 wave 2) on-premises has just been released.
Directions EMEA 2023 – D365 Sales Integration
Directions 4 Partners EMEA 2023 is over. It was an amazing event and I will summarize my thoughts in the upcoming days and weeks and create probably 1 or 2 blog posts about the most interesting changes and sessions. Today, I also had our session with Marko Totovic...
Setting up telemetry for BC environments (VAR)
Setting up telemetry for BC environments (VAR) A few weeks back, I published a blog post about controlling the cost of telemetry using the transformation rules. However, I found (thanks to my colleagues from Fusion5) that I don't have any blog posts about setting up...
Time, DateTime, Production Orders and Time Zones – not what I expected
I decided to write this post to describe a problem we are dealing with when we are working with production orders through API or when there are users working in different time zones. Let's start with a quick introduction. Business Central has two datatypes that can...
Indirect Dependencies and Access Modifiers
Last week, there was a discussion on Yammer on how to get values from the "Sent Email" record when all fields are marked as Internal. I was surprised that many people do not know what can/can't access modifiers (such as local, protected, or internal) be used for. I...
See you @ Directions EMEA 2023 in Lyon!
I am so excited that my session Dynamics 365 Sales Integration Deep Dive has been accepted for Directions 2023! During the 105-minute-long session, I and Microsoft MVP Marko Totovic will show everything you should know about OOTB integration between Microsoft Dynamics...
CRM Integration how to: Customize Status/State for CRM Invoice
CRM Integration how to: Customize Status/State for CRM Invoice See all articles in CRM Integration | MSDyn365 Business Central – Tomas Kapitan (kepty.cz) category to get max from the OOTB and custom integration. I have asked Microsoft to extend the base app to allow...
Use Transformation Rules to lower the costs of BC Telemetry
Telemetry is one of the most important tools for any partner to see what's happening in Business Central. However, unmanaged telemetry (or analytics) workspace costs could be huge. To lower the cost, you just need to spend some time configuring relevant signals you...
CRM Integration: The magic behind CompanyId, aka multi-company BC-CRM integration
See all articles in CRM Integration | MSDyn365 Business Central - Tomas Kapitan (kepty.cz) category to get max from the OOTB and custom integration. How does it work? It's simple. When the BC-CRM integration is enabled, one of the steps is to deploy the solution to...
CRM Integration: Add a custom field to the existing CRM table with a custom transfer field process
This is the second part of my posts about custom CRM integration. See all related articles in CRM Integration | MSDyn365 Business Central - Tomas Kapitan (kepty.cz) category. In the previous part, we discussed how to add a custom text field to CRM integration for the...
CRM Integration: Add a custom field to the existing CRM table
In the past weeks, I got a few questions about Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales and Business Central Integration. I did some integration projects in past, but I also have experience with a heavily customized solution from this year. As a lot of questions were about how to...
AL Extensions: Replace Document Attachment
I have published a new simple, open-source extension that allows replacing existing document attachments in all master entities as well as in open documents. The source code as well as the app file that can be installed in your environment is available on my GitHub...