So you want to develop custom code for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central? The code for BC is written in AL, which stands for “Application Language”, and is a specific language only used for Business Central. To start writing AL code, you nee...
You have an AL project that you want to work on within your new container. How exactly do you connect your code to your container BC instance? It’s pretty easy! Within your AL Project you should have a .vscode folder, with a file called launch.jso...
Have you ever been walking through a process in Business Central, and realize you want to debug, but don’t want to wait to publish, and get back to the exact spot where you were testing something? Or for some reason you were debugging something, a...
Guess what day it is?! 🐫 Time for some more #HumpDayHacks, brought to you in part by Copilot. If you are working in Business Central version 24, you may have accidently clicked the Copilot button instead of the Search 🔎 If you are really set on ...
Excel Reports are extremely useful when you need a detailed dataset. They not only provide a denormalized dataset, but also facilitate the creation of meaningful data connections, pivot charts, visualizations and more. A notable drawback has been ...
When working with RDLC report layouts, there are many different properties available to aide in customization. This blog post will focus on CanGrow and how we can use it to expand to display all of its contents, or restrict its size. CanGrow is a ...
Labels are string constants that can be translated into multiple languages. They can be used for things like captions, descriptions, questions, error messages, or other text constants. Labels have a specific syntax, which includes a text constant,...
If you are working with reports that need to display dates in chronological order, you might be tempted to create a separate table just for that purpose. For example you might want to show the actual and planned production output for each day, wee...
After writing my last blog post BC23 Rich Text content on Reports I was asked if I would consider doing a small pull request to the Microsoft Learn docs article that details how to use rich text content on RDL report layouts for Business Central. ...