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Posted on by Ghetz 3,013

Have 2 questions about publishing apps to a Business Central 17 OnPrem installation

I've noticed, that when I'm working with VS Code, and hit F6, the app is publish with Scope: Tenant, and Tenant deffault

But, when I use the powershell command "Publish-NAVApp -ServerInstance bc170..." the Scope is Global, with no tenant

Is it possible to publish to scope: Global from VS Code?

And the next question is, for example I have an app in version 1.0.0.20 published in BC170. When I want to publish the next version, 1.0.0.21, do I have to manually uninstall the previous version, or is there a command to automatically uninstall the old version and publish the new one? Can this update be done from VS Code?

Thanks.

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    Stefano Demiliani Profile Picture
    Stefano Demiliani 37,166 Most Valuable Professional on at

    1) No.

    2) You can use POwershell cmdlets (and the app is updated automatically) or you can directly update from VS Code (hitting F5 updates the app).

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    Ghetz 3,013 on at

    Thanks for your answer, could you point me to the powershell cmdlet to update the app? Currently I use these commands:

    Uninstall-NAVApp -ServerInstance bc170 -Name MyApp -Version 1.0.0.52
Publish-NAVApp -ServerInstance bc170 -Path 'C:\Temp\MyApp_1.0.0.53.app' -SkipVerification
Sync-NAVApp -ServerInstance bc170 -Name MyApp -Version 1.0.0.53
Start-NAVAppDataUpgrade -ServerInstance bc170 -Name MyApp -Version 1.0.0.53
Unpublish-NAVApp -ServerInstance bc170 -Name MyApp -Version 1.0.0.52
Install-NAVApp -ServerInstance bc170 -Name MyApp -Version 1.0.0.53

    I would prefer to always publish with a global scope; as we don't use tenant funcionality. So I guess VS Code F5 is not an option.

  • Benny Van Lyssebettens Profile Picture
    Benny Van Lyssebettens 35 on at

    Hi Ghetz,

    I use a serie of powershell-scripts wrapped in a Azure Devops Extension and we release our apps from there.

    Our install task has logic to install, upgrade and remove older version from the "gloabal" scope. There's also commercial products with same capabilities if you're not into powershell.

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