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User Experience
Report layouts in Excel? Yes!!!
Everyone is surely aware of how strong Excel is as a software. It has been deeply ingrained in corporate operations worldwide, whether it be for assessing stocks or companies, creating budgets, or organizing customer sales lists. Usage of Excel Layout Due to the fact...
Substituting standard reports
Report objects cannot be extended in versions previous to the Business Central 2021 release wave 1 version when ReportExtensions object was introduced. Since then, many of changes we need to do in reports can be done without creating a new copy of object. On the other...
Updated plans for 2022 (less sessions & articles in Q1/Q2 2022 :/ )
Life is going on, and my plans for conferences & events has changed a bit. With the current Covid 19 situations, it's not always easy to make our plans happen, but let's hope it will be different this time.My plans for the first half of 2022 were to attend...
PF 2022
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from the Dolomites!
How to install Business Central (developer) preview version
In the last weeks, I got some questions about installing the developer's preview version (the Insider build) of the Business Central. This version is available through Artifacts for docker similarly to standard versions; however, they are available only for Microsoft'...
D365 Business Central database capacity changes valid from the 1st of July
On the Virtual Launch Event for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2021 Release Wave 1, the major changes to the cloud-based version (Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Online) have been introduced. The changes are not active yet; they will be effective from...
A quick look into the upcoming major version in April 2021 (Business Central 2021 release wave 1) from the developer’s point of view
It is only four months since the last major version of the Business Central (2020 wave 2) has been released, and we can already look forward to another version that will be released in April. Microsoft has already provided the list of planned and confirmed...
Monitored Fields
Another new functionality introduced with the Business Central 2020 Wave 2 (with version 17.1 in November specifically) is called "Monitored Fields". This functionality is built over the original Change Log functionality and use the same tables and procedures;...
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Certification is available!
Right now, the only official Microsoft exam & certification for the Business Central (details of MB800 exam and details of certification) is in the full version! After more than 4 months when the exam was in beta version, Microsoft just switched the exam and...
UI enhancements in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2020 Wave 2
Dynamics 365 has come out with a comprehensive plan for the release of business central 2020 wave 2. In this article I will focus on updates to page styling, more responsive FactBoxes, and an upgraded dialog bar for a seamless service and optimized productivity. Page...
Merge entity duplicity
In the case of duplicity in Customers, Vendors or Contacts, the system offers functionality to merge related record. To run it, go to the customer/vendor/contact card and run action "Merge With…". The setup window is opened for the entity from which the page was...
New Features: Managing permissions to export data to Excel
With the new version of the Business Central (2020 Wave 1) administrators have a way how to restrict users who could export data to Excel. This is common request across all industries to allow this functionality to only some users. The permission is under the...
New Features: Optimizing of pages
Page Loading One of the highly expected changes is optimization of pages. With the upcoming major version (2020 Wave 1) there should be a lot of changes to the behaviour and performance in pages. In the current version (2019 Wave 2 and older) the page is not opened...
Page Inspection
Description of the standard functionality that allows data inspection as so as inspection of the current page.
New Features: Non-Sequential numbering
One of the most known problem, especially in systems with many users, is managing DB locking for records, that require many updates. In term of Business Central (and previously NAV too) this problem is mostly known from No. Series. The new version of the Business...
Processing Sales Returns and Cancellations
It's tricky when a customer wants to cancel or return the item they bought from your company. One of the best ways to handle this through Business Central is to create a "sales credit memo" or a sales post that highlights the specific change. By doing this, you'll be...
How to Record Prices and Discounts for Purchases
You can't get anywhere as a business if you don't produce sales through selling your items. But it's also just as important to keep as much inventory coming in as what's going out, so it's good to keep a clean record of your purchases, prices for those purchases, and...