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Business Central Cloud renaming a PDF report using FileManagement.BLOBExport On the Business Central Cloud, to save a report in PDF format and change its name while saving, you can use a STREAM BLOB through the “Temp blob” codeunit. Once this is done, use the function then the BLOBExport function present in the “File Management” codeunit … Read more
Add Bookmarks via AL Code Using the bookmark icon , you can add an action that opens a page or report from the navigation menu of your Role Center. The bookmark icon is shown in the top right corner of a page and also in the Tell Me window where you can efficiently bookmark multiple pages or … Read more
BUSINESS CENTRAL CONTROL ADD-INS Control add-in A “control add-in” is a custom control for displaying and modifying data within an iframe or a page. For example, a control add-in can display the content of a webpage, visualize data as a chart or on a map, or host a custom web application. Control add-in can respond … Read more
It is possible to substitute reports from the base application with “custom reports“. Great! This can be done by subscribing to the “OnAfterSubstituteReport” event published by “Codeunit 44 – ReportManagement“. The following code illustrates “how to subscribe” a method to the “OnAfterSubstituteReport” event. This method replaces the report specified by the ReportId with the one given by the NewReportId parameter. In this example … Read more
Page Extension Vs Page Customization in Business Central I want to point out the differences between the Page Extension and Page Customization Objects, sometimes the Customization Object, although more limited in functionality, may be sufficient for some customizations. #1 – Page Customization Object The page customization object in Dynamics 365 Business Central allows you to … Read more
Development Coding Rules and Naming Conventions for Microsoft AL Hi guys, in this short post i want to talk about “Development Coding Rules and Naming Conventions for Microsoft AL Language Extension”; previously i already dealt with this topic in relation to C/AL, now I try to do it for Microsoft AL. For the development on … Read more
XMLPorts Runner for Business Central SaaS i found this nice question on MS Community : “XML port and file Output” in BC SaaS https://community.dynamics.com/business/f/758/t/298825 “If you are working on the Business Central SaaS you cannot specify a network folder because the cloud doesn’t know that; In the cloud, you cannot automatically save a file in a local … Read more
AL Snippets: Custom Snippets for AL Extension interesting custom Snippets for AL Extension developed by Krzysztof Bialowas, I report the post and the installation link because I consider it interesting and useful. 16 snippets are available including those one for Events. The best is to go project wiki to check what they can: https://github.com/mynavblog/Snippets-for-AL/wiki Marketplace … Read more
Custom Workflows in AL: Email Validation I report this interesting post by Jaspreet Singh about creating a workflow using Microsoft AL, the demo is based on the use of an API to verify the correctness of an email (more or less with the same API recall mode already used in the Microsoft demo GetAddress already … Read more
“GetAddressService” AL demo project tested This demo will show how to use Vs Code to AL to create and distribute an extension with NAV 2018 (in this case for NAV 2018 but for Tenerife it will be the same thing). It will start from the installation of the necessary modules for the use of New … Read more