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The world is changing … The cloud story is pushing us to use modern dev tools, docker container etc.
In this blog post I’ll try to show the example how to add a report in Business Central SaaS/Cloud version with use locally hosted Container Sandbox. The many pictures will below.
Imagine that we have a good old Business Central on-prem version and run report: Inventory - Sales Statistics
The report is grouping data by Inventory Posting Group.
In our example we will try to create copy of this report but with small modification – remove grouping data by Inventory Posting Group. We are going to do it (finally) for Business Central SaaS/Cloud version.
Run Business Central SaaS/Cloud version (I used my test tenant for GB version, 14.3)
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Well, now we need to use ‘an old trick’ take an exist standard object, rename it, set new object id and later modify a bit.
All standard object in .al format already in our folder Original-14.3.34444.0-W1-al
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Check images and containers.
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docker images
docker ps
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Copy shortcuts to our DEV folder.
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Create new Sandbox (Copy production data) tenant:
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Well, open our Production tenant, Upload Extension:
Run new report (Cloud/SaaS production tenant).
