This article is part of the In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (Administration), how do I… series and of the wider In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, how do I… series which I am posting as I familiarise myself with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. When you sign up for a Business Central trial, a production environment is created for you; if you sign up in other ways, you will have to create the first environment yourself. You can also create sandbox environments with a copy of production or the CRONUS sample company data. Through time, you will end up with a few enviro ..read more

Every month, on the third Tuesday, at MADIC dynamics we will be presenting a Knowledge Hub Webinar on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and related products; I will be presenting some of the webinars, but other consultants will be getting involved as well, so there will be a variety of presenters through time. We aim to have the next three monthly Knowledge Hub Webinars scheduled and details of them available. The next three webinars, starting next month, are: What’s New in Business Central 2024 Wave 1 Tuesday, 21st May 2024 – 14:00-14:45 Discover the upcoming new features in Mic ..read more

This article is part of the In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (Administration), how do I… series and of the wider In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, how do I… series which I am posting as I familiarise myself with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. I am doing some work implementing Business Central for a company which will be changing their name before too long and there was a short debate about whether the environment was to be created using their current name or the new name, in advance of the name changing. However, this isn’t actually too important a point as it is ..read more

In our most recent webinar here at MADIC dynamics, we took a look at Jet Reports & Business Central. If you want to catch up on this webinar, you can do so here. Introduction Available Functions Fast Financials Jet Function (Jfx) Report Wizard Browser Table Builder Conclusion Introduction ^ In this webinar we took a look at Jet Reports & Business Central. Jet Reports is (probably) the leading reporting software which is used with Business Central, and NAV before BC. It allows you to report from any table, standard or third party, from Business Central which means that you can do ..read more

This article is part of the In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (Administration), how do I… series and of the wider In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, how do I… series which I am posting as I familiarise myself with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. One thing I wasn’t initially aware of when you create a company in Business Central, is that the company actually has two names; there is the Name and the Display Name. When you create a company, you specify the name and the display name is set to the same value. I was talking to someone about a Business Central company the o ..read more

This article is part of the In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (Administration), how do I… series and of the wider In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, how do I… series which I am posting as I familiarise myself with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. A while ago, in this series, I covered how to use list pages in Business Central and also posted some links to advanced filtering techniques; one thing oyu can do with list pages is save your filter options so you don’t need to set them up again, time after time. I also demonstrated this in the articles on creating goods rece ..read more

Microsoft have released a preview of some of the functionality slated for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 2. The functionality has been broken down into two areas: AI powered business World class service The functionality slated for inclusion includes: AI powered business Finance Collections improvements Regulatory requirements Supply chain Field Service integration with Service Management Generative AI Create orders from Chat Page summarisation Payment reconciliation E-document more matching Drag and Drop on Prompt Dialog Late payment prediction – new model 3rd p ..read more

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 1. The 4th of the new functionality in the User experiences section is Access worksheet pages from mobile phones. Expanding access to more Business Central areas from a mobile device is essential these days as more users are choosing this way of working. Until now, you couldn’t open worksheet pages from your phone. Now you can, making it more convenient to work with Business ..read more

I was doing some work with a client a while ago and encountered a problem with Excel where it was showing me the formula in a call, rather than the result of the formula. I have no idea if the spreadsheet was sent to me with the formulas set this way (I’m not sure if this is possible) or if I inadvertently hit the keyboard combination to enable the setting at some point (Alt + M and then Alt + H). It took me longer than it should have done to revert Excel back, so I am posting this as a reminder should it happen again. To switch this setting off, select the Formulas tab on the action pane and ..read more

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