So you want your report run automatically, output as pdf and you want it emailed too?
It's funny how, with all this rush to get everything Copilot ed, I became one of the few NAV experts in my team. And boy, there's so much laugh when the NAV…
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The years before Business Central: NAV 2009 through NAV 2018.
FieldGroups in Business Central: what was, what is and where from here.
FieldGroups, originally a concept from Dynamics NAV, has undergone a migration to VS Code and AL. With the latest release of Business Central in 2023 Wave 2…
Parsing RunRequestPage output using XML Buffer
RunRequestPage allows developers to record the request page settings of a Dynamics NAV/Business Central report without actually running the report. The output…
3 ways to create Business Central Containers via Docker, NAVContainerHelper and BCContainerHelper
Starting in 2019 I found learning increasingly more about Docker and Microsoft Powershell libraries that get you a running instance of NAV or Business Central…
How to get all Windows services when you know the name of the executable
Long time no blog :) A few days ago I tried to stop a NAS on a NAV 2009 server. The problem was that I did know which service is running the NAS. If you are in…
Fastest way to get entities in Dynamics NAV or Business Central and not only
It's 4 pm. To my surprise a skype call from one of the customers I usually talk maybe once a month. She cut the niceties quite abruptly: "Look, I have a list…
How to generate Azure Containers Instances loaded with Business Central in minutes
To start writing extensions for Business Central we have a few choices: installing locally one of the release candidates that comes in the same format as any…
Invoking Azure Functions to replace DOT NET calls in C/AL or AL
Recently Microsoft announced that dotnet can still be used with installations on premise of Dynamics 365 Business Central. However, if our extension is to make…
Dynamics 365 Business Central: AL Code Analyzers #TurnOnCops #Extensions #Permissions
When you turn On PerTenantExtensionCop in Visual Studio Code and you forgot to create a Permissions.xml file, you get a compile error in your extension. In…
Dynamics 365 Business Central : Extending Role Center headline with web service data, lists and dictionaries
So much to read, so little time … the speed at which Microsoft adds new Business Central and AL features is overwhelming :) In this blog I'll demonstrate how I…
Microsoft Flow, Twitter and Dynamics NAV
As C/AL is my number one language to code, I wanted since last summer to give it a try to Microsoft Flow. And as Twitter is one of the top 3 applications I use…
3 Easy Methods to move company data between NAV databases
If there is something that changes in NAV every few releases, is how we backup and restore data (be that full backup, application data, companies data) between…
Dimensions in NAV 2016.. - design overview
As stated here, beyond the setup and usage of dimensions, developing with NAV requires a better grasp of dimension's internal design. I'll be diving shortly…
Setup and How-Tos re: Dimensions in NAV2016..
Recently I've been asked to explain the concept of dimension in NAV and while I managed to come up quickly with an answer I wanted to spend some time…
NAV 2017 - How To Start With Application Testing In 5 Easy Steps
Thanks for landing here! Microsoft has developed a series of automated tests that allow developers to test various features of the standard application before…
NAV 2017 - Delivering custom code as extension
We can still deliver our custom code as a fob in NAV 2017 as most VARs will continue to do so in the foreseeable future, however it seems to me that ISVs will…
How To : 5 Easy Steps to generate your First NAV Extension
Thank you for landing here. It's quite common nowadays to hear NAV people talking about Dynamics 365, AppStore, extensions, new AL language and the Visual…
NAV Upgrade Notes - First essential step for a successful NAV upgrade
The first step in my last NAV upgrade was to back up customized tables. Although having database backups throughout your upgrade process is a no brainer, my…
Practical Guide: Inject Deferrals in your NAV 2016 processes
Deferral accounts, or Prepaid expenses accounts, as defined by Larson, Jensen and Carroll(2002) are asset accounts . These deferral accounts contain payments…
How to use CAPTIONCLASSTRANSLATE in Dynamics NAV
Not long ago I stumbled upon a question on the popular NAV forum dynamicsuser.net. The question was "What is the use of CAPTIONCLASSTRANSLATE command in NAV?"…
Day-to-day NAV: Upgrade codeunits
Starting with NAV 2015 there is an easier way to migrate data between old and new structures of NAV tables. From msdn.aspx) excerpt, the upgrade codeunits role…
NAV 2017: Wizard pages now supported in Web Client
As of October 2016, NAV 2017 is the latest version of the popular ERP system. To complement the brand new features, NAV team worked on enhancing current…
NAV Upgrade Notes - Turning Comments into Notes using .NET
Upgrading a NAV AddOn is not solely merging code and upgrading the database through all NAV versions in between source and target. It involves analysis and…
Building a NAV server performance baseline using Logman and Perfmon Windows utilities
More and more NAV servers are being deployed to the cloud, yet a large number of NAV customers are keeping their NAV installations on premise (either on a…
An asynchronous processing solution for MS Dynamics NAV
From the earliest to the newest NAV versions, long running tasks are usually accompanied by a progress bar or windows with multiple progress bars. It's…
NAV 2016 - Applying a new NAV Cumulative Update using Powershell cmdlets
I've done a few C/AL code merging for Dynamics NAV in the past, and while I don't mind working with BeyondCompare for a few hours every now and then, the task…