Mastering Tolerances in Business Central: All Six of Them
A natural follow up to my previous posts on Customer Ledger Entries and the Order to Cash process would be to look at what happens when the numbers don't match…
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How the application behaves — functionality, releases and things worth knowing.
RecordRef.FieldExist() and RecordRef.Field() have now a text overload
Check out my latest Youtube video where I demo the two text overloads of RecordRef.FieldExist and RecordRef.Field().
2 out-of-the box methods for copying data between companies
Business Central includes already 2 tools to copy data between companies. Of course, we can duplicate two companies, but you can also copy specific tables…
Block Items for Production Output
In Business Central you can set an item as blocked for sales, purchasing, and servicing. With 2025 wave 1, we can now set an item, or its variants as blocked…
Add fields from related tables in analysis mode
With Business Central 26.2 you can now add fields from related tables to your analysis. The main table and the new table have to be related and has to be a 1 1…
Database Missing Indexes page overview
With Business Central 2025 wave 1 Microsoft enhances the Database Missing Indexes page by adding a few new columns: Seeks : Tracks the number of seeks caused…
Extend CardPageId on List and ListPart pages
With the Business Central 2025 wave 1 we can now use CardPageId property on base or any other extension list pages. If you want to open a different card when…
Keep BC lean with Retention Policies
Administrators can define retention policies to specify how often to delete outdated data in tables that contain log entries and archived records. For example…
Last 12 months activity on my blog site
Each year, I review the content I’ve created over the past 12 months, analyzing its performance metrics and comparing them to previous years. In 2024, I…
Extended Text for Project Planning Lines
Did you know Extended Text in MSDyn365BC now works with Projects too? 📝 If you haven't explored this yet, take 8 minutes to watch my quick 'how to' video and…
Come see me and Steve at #mySummitNA in San Antonio
Come join our session on Ad hoc analysis in Business Central on Wednesday October 16th, in Room 225D at the Convention Center in San Antonio. You'll learn…
DynamicsCon Live 2024 it's a wrap!
My first conference, where I participated as a speaker, is a wrap. Organizers have mentioned this was the largest gathering of people since inception, which…
$$$ How to process Vendor Prepayments in Business Central
This blog post and YouTube video has been addressed more extensively in my published book on Business Central ledgers. The book covers many, many other topics…
$$$ How to process Customer Prepayments in Business Central
This blog post and YouTube video has been addressed more extensively in my published book on Business Central ledgers. The book covers many, many other topics…
Business Central shines at Data Analysis! Check this Analysis of Vendor Discounts!
This blog post and YouTube video has been addressed more extensively in my published book on Business Central ledgers. The book covers many, many other topics…
Mastering Discounts in Business Central in Just 30 Minutes!
The following demonstration was executed on a Cronus database for Business Central version 23.5. Purchase discounts in Dynamics 365 Business Central are a…
Procure to Pay process in Business Central
A natural follow up to my previous blog post, Customer Ledger Entries in Business Central Business Central Musings, on svirlan.com, which explored the Order to…
Customer Ledger Entries in Business Central
This blog post and YouTube video has been addressed more extensively in my published book on Business Central ledgers. The book covers many, many other topics…
Thoughts on the Community Summit Roadshow in Tampa
On February 21st, 2024, the Dynamics Summit Roadshow in Tampa provided an exceptional platform for professionals across the Dynamics ecosystem, and it was here…
Boost Cash Flow in Business Central: Track Payment Metrics
Average Days to pay invoices This customers' metric is very useful to forecast cash flow. It is part of Business Central offering and can be seen on each…
DynamicsCon 2024
🌟 Honored and thrilled to share that I'll be a speaker at Dynamics Con 2024 in Denver 🏔️! 🎤 Excited to delve into Dynamics 365 Business Central innovations! 🚀…
Uncover Sales Shipment trends & Analytics with the new #AnalysisMode in #businesscentral
Analysis Mode is a relatively new feature in Microsoft's Business Central. I first heard of it in 2022, and during 2023 was heavily promoted at all conferences…
New-NAVEncryptionKey & Import-NAVEncryptionKey for BC On-Prem
This is a second article targeting BC On Prem installations. First one referred to auditing BC cmdlets usage using powershell transcription. Give it a read!…
How to get disk usage per folder
Recently I received a question coming to the support ticketing system on how to get a listing of all folders inside c:\Users folder and their sizes. The sys…
Knowing your Business Central data using the Page Inspection
Intro Business Central's Page Inspection is a core component for Microsoft's flagship ERP for SMB. Something similar existed in Dynamics NAV (zoom) and…
Business Central 2021 wave 2: an overview of Data Management
Reasons why data size matters Data size or rather tenant capacity is reflected in the price the end user pays Data size influences performance: smaller…
Have you seen the new "Chart of Accounts Overview" in BC 2021 Wave 2?
With Business Central 2021 Wave 2 there is a new page to inspect the chart of accounts. Search for "Chart of Accounts Overview". This new page displays the…
There is a new Posting Preview Type in Business Central. See how that works!
News around Preview Posting in Business Central
How checking financial journal in background works
With BC 2020 wave 2 a new feature was introduced that allows for background checks on journal lines. See more about this new feature here. "On the General…
Handy Date-Time Dialog in Business Central
Did you ever need a DateTime field in your Business Central extension? I recently added, in one of my customer extensions, a DateTime field, and wanted to…
Business Central On-Premise installation: hardware and software requirements and recommendations
How do we know at what level of hardware requirements will be enough to not only guarantee good performance at deployment, but down the line months and years from deployment?