Navid Rahman

Among various manufacturing features, Assembly Orders and Production Orders play a pivotal role in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. While they might appear similar, these two order types serve different purposes and cater to distinct manufacturing processes. Let’s delve into the key differences and their respective use cases. Assembly Order Assembly Orders were introduced in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013, An Assembly Order in Business Central is designed for simple and quick manufacturing processes where the emphasis is on combining components to create a finished product. Here are the primary characteristics: Use Case : Best suited for light manufacturing or kitting operations where items are assembled without complex operations or extensive planning. Simplified Workflow : Assembly Orders focus on assembling predefined components into a finished good with minimal overhead. This is ideal for businesses that create kits or bundles, such as electronic packaging or furniture assembl...

This post provides tips about different find function in Business Central, including both long-standing C/AL strategies and newer concepts like partial records. FindSet vs FindFirst/FindLast FindSet and FindFirst/FindLast are two methods utilized in Dynamics 365 Business Central for extracting records from a table. The key distinction between them is that FindSet fetches a group of records, whereas FindFirst only fetches the initial record in the filter and FindLast fetches the last record. FindSet is employed when there’s a need to traverse through a sequence of records, and it’s advisable to use FindSet(true) if there’s a requirement to alter any record within the group. Conversely, FindFirst/FindLast is employed when only the initial or last record is needed and there’s no requirement for a loop. SetLoadFields  The SetLoadFields function only loads the specified fields, thereby not fetching the remaining fields in the table and ensuring a quicker load. It is suitable for searchi...

The new demo license is automatically installed when you install the Demo Option. The license gives access to any Business Central application, including the Base Application, and full access to app development. Properties of the demo license When the demo license is installed, you can: Start ten simultaneous client sessions on any platform. Create up to two companies. Support an unlimited number of web users. Run in any supported language. Use all application functionality, including add-on products, local extensions and customizations in current and previous versions. This means that you can run and modify all object types within the range 1 to 99,999,999. The new license will only be shipped in .bclicense format and will not be possible to use with older versions of Business Central or NAV. Valid for 10 years from now (no need to update it frequently). You can run automated tests in any period of the year (only the UI has limits on periods). All ranges in the demo license are now op...

Employees with Microsoft 365 licenses but no Business Central licenses can have now view only access of Business Central (Cloud) from Teams with the proper configuration, read Business Central records that are shared with them in Microsoft Teams chat and channels. Administrators can set environments to enable access with Microsoft 365 licenses and specify exactly which tables and other objects this category of user will have access to when an organization has both a Dynamics 365 Business Central and a Microsoft 365 subscription.  Read more at:  Business Central Access with Microsoft 365 licences - Business Central | Microsoft Learn Send link into the Team User can open the link into Team for this example it is PO list Use can view the detail PO as well in Teams

The new edition of "Dynamics 365 Business Central 2022" does not include a graphical interface for the admin tool. The command-line admin tool is not very user-friendly. A better alternative is to use "Windows PowerShell ISE". It has some features that make it easier to write commands for the admin tool. Here is how to use it: Write the following script in PowerShell and run it. It will open the admin tool in PowerShell.  Then you can choose different commands from the admin tool in the command window to write any script. Import-Module 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central\210\Service\NavAdminTool.ps1' If error execute: Set-ExecutionPolicy -Scope CurrentUser -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted ·          To get all server configuration: Get-NAVServerConfiguration -ServerInstance BC210 ·          To set server configuration: Set-NAVServerConfiguration -KeyName DeveloperService...

  As we know Microsoft has moved the D365 Business Central development environment to VS code. In the Dynamics NAV which was in the native development tools. Now everything is code based and no visual tools are there for object navigation and table, page or report creation.  The good news is I have found a nice extension in VS Code which will be very helpful for the developers.  Name of the extension is  AZ AL Dev Tools/AL Code Outline for Visual Studio Code ( Visit Marketplace ) It has features like: AL objects wizards Symbols browser AL symbols outline panel Symbols tree view AL code generators Code actions Code transformation commands Action images browser Custom editors Documentation comments support Code analyzers rules viewer Document syntax visualizer Also you can use the extension to create the objects (table pages etc.) visually like previous and it will auto generate AL code for the objects: These are the wizards to create new AL object file: Table Wizard T...

All versions of Business Central are currently available, so you can make the transition whenever it makes sense for your business. Making the switch to Business Central is not so different than any other NAV upgrade. For example, if you’re running NAV 2015, you might have been considering an upgrade. Now, instead of upgrading to a newer version of NAV, you’ll transition to Business Central. User licenses. Business Central does not offer concurrent user licenses as NAV does. Instead, each license has a named user. NAV customers will be offered two Business Central named users for each NAV concurrent user. Also, instead of NAV’s Limited User license, Business Central has a Team Member license, which offers the same level of access and functionality. Subscription model. Just as they did for NAV, Microsoft offers both perpetual and subscription licenses for Business Central, although the subscription model is certainly the most popular. Because Business Central has named user...

First we need to create a table for the graphical report. Lets create a new table which will contain budget and actual amount of different accounts with the following fields: Save the table as  Graphical Report Table. Now  i nsert following data into the table for example: Our table is ready for the Report. Now go to report section and click new to create a new report. In the report designer enter the table number or name as DataItem. Then select the table fields under the DataItem. Now select  View > Layout from main menu. The report layout will be open in visual studio. (If visual studio is not installed in your computer SQL report designer may open but I recomand Visual Studio for RDLC report design). in the visual studio report design choose chart from toolbox menu. Then create a chart you want from the list. Here i choose the first one for this example. In the chart data section select Actual and Budget field Sum in Value section. And Name...

We can create any code unit in Dynamics NAV and publish it as web-service. To do that we need to go to the page (form in 2009)  "Web Services".  In the Web Services page, choose New. In the Object Type column, select Codeunit, then in the Object ID column enter the Codeunit Number, and then enter a name in the Service Name column. This name will be the web-service name to consume.  Mark the check box in the Published column and choose OK to close the New - Web Services page. Webservice Form (2009) Verifying the Web services availability. Make sure flowing services are running in server. In Browser write the service URL to check if the service published successfully, Change the localhost with ip for remote server : http://localhost:7047/DynamicsNAV/WS/Services  If everything is ok you should see the published services names in the browser. Now lets try to consume the service. In this example we will see how to consume the service fr...