Thank you for attending our webinar: ” Utilizing the new Sharepoint Connector to handle File Management in Dynamics 365 Business Central”.   This webinar overviewed the capabilities and features of the new Sharepoint connector within Microsoft’s system application. When upgrading a solution to Business Central SaaS, it is common to run into many challenges when reworking various functions closely tied to the local or server’s file system. In this case, the built-in Microsoft SharePoint connector in the system application can be used as an alternative method to store and manipula ..read more

The first conference in 2023 is coming! Directions North America 2023 is the premier Microsoft Dynamics 365 event driven by Partners – for Partners. This conference brings together developers, implementers, technical experts, sales and executive/owner representatives from Dynamics partners, ISVs, Service Providers, and Microsoft. So, our team hopes to meet you in Orlando, FL, on the 16-19 of April.   Simplanova is attending the Directions North America event as a silver sponsor this year.   Automate your path to Dynamics 365 Business Central success    If you are inter ..read more

Most Dynamics NAV and Business Central 365 solutions use file management functionality to work with external files (read, write, save, download files, etc.) However, when using C/AL, usually most of the file management functions are based on the file path from the local computer since the client’s local file system is available, unlike in Business Central (in Web Client, it is possible to work only with the file system on the server side). This article describes examples of the Persistent Blob functionality implementation, which refactors the usage of files from local computer paths in Busines ..read more

Back in the days, it was so easy, right? Design a table, add any field as a secondary key, and use it as you like for data sorting and do any calculation you want. Nowadays, you have no access to base tables; therefore, the only option is to make an extension of the table definition. I won’t speak much about this since it is very nicely described in Microsoft documentation: Table Keys – Business Central | Microsoft Learn   I want to review – a few possibilities of data sorting you can use in Business Central, and here is the nice part, whether the fields are part of the keys or not! Let’s ..read more

Simplanova invites Dynamics Partners to join our webinar: Utilizing the new Sharepoint Connector to handle File Management in Dynamics 365 Business Central   In this webinar, we will overview the capabilities and features of the new Sharepoint connector within Microsoft’s system application. When upgrading a solution to Business Central SaaS, it is common to run into many challenges when reworking various functions closely tied to the local or server’s file system. In this case, the built-in Microsoft SharePoint connector in the system application can be used as an alternative method to s ..read more

Almost every Dynamics NAV / 365 Business Central solution uses multi-language functionality, allowing to display UI in different languages. Using C/AL – we have to fill in the CaptionML property with a desired translation. Using AL – we have to use the XLIFF file for the same purpose. Both achieve the same goal, but both are very different technologies. This article will guide you through translation files creation from the beginning to the end and give some useful tips on making this process easier and faster in Business Central.   If you are not familiar with XLIFF files, there is a gre ..read more

The difference between pass-by-reference and pass-by-value is that modifications made to arguments passed by reference in the called function affect the calling function. Therefore, modifications to arguments passed in by value in the called function cannot affect the calling function.   And it’s like that in any programing language, right? Well, no, not in every case with Business Central AL. Using a Variant Data Type and Record Ref’s has a little bug. So, let’s check it out. Let’s define a RecRef and assign it to a Sales Line table, for example, and create a function that accepts input ..read more

Making your app cloud-compatible can be a real challenge – there is a number of functionalities that are only available for OnPrem solutions or require major workarounds. You can easily check the effort that will be required if you already have a working OnPrem app – just go to your app.json file and set the “target” parameter to “Cloud”. However, it is a bit more difficult if your solution is not even on AL yet.   In order to have a basic understanding of what it might cost to build a cloud-compatible app – we will overview 3 main groups that cause most of the issues and technical challe ..read more

The year is ending, and we can review how productive they were and what innovations they brought to the Dynamics world. Looking back to 2022, we found a lot of trending news and insights, which we want to share with you again.     Top 5 articles of 2022     1. Guidelines for Partners: Media file management using MediaSet Media, such as images, are frequently used in Dynamics 365 Business Central. This blog post introduces Media, Mediaset data types, and how to upload and download images using MediaSet in Dynamics Business Central 365. Have a look here.   2. Guidelines ..read more

ChatGPT is the latest Open AI solution available in preview for two weeks now as of writing this. ChatGPT is a fine-tuned model in the GPT-3.5 series, which finished training in early 2022; most of its knowledge is limited to data available in 2021. Can ChatGPT be used for answering Business Central end-user functional-related questions? And how does it compare to a trained Q-A type chatbot built on Microsoft’s Bot Framework in the same field? Dmitry has tested ChatGPT usefulness for AL developers for generating code and concluded that due to limited public AL code repos it’s not good enough y ..read more