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Business Central App maintenance policy tightened

25 Sep
Posted on September 25, 2020November 28, 2020 8

Microsoft recently published information about maintaining apps and per-tenant extensions (PTEs) for Business Central. This rule can be simply summarized as “keep your apps compatible with Business Central or we are forced to remove your app”. This sounds a little … Read More »

Business Central, General

Service-to-service authentication for automation APIs in Business Central

14 Sep
Posted on September 14, 2020October 3, 2022 40

One of the many new features in Business Central 2020 release wave 2, aka v17, is service-to-service authentication for automation APIs. What does that mean, how does it help us, and how does it work? Automation APIs are used for … Read More »

API, Business Central

Converting Enum values in AL

16 Jul
Posted on July 16, 2020 13

During my AL training classes, a frequently asked question is how to convert enum values to and from integer or text. So I thought it would be a good idea to share with you what possibilities you have. First of … Read More »

AL, Business Central

Deep insert with Business Central APIs (part 2)

1 Jul
Posted on July 1, 2020July 1, 2020 47

In my previous post about deep inserts with Business Central APIs, I mentioned creating custom APIs that support deep inserts. I tried to create an example with Sales Header / Sales Line, but I gave up because I ran into … Read More »

AL, API, Business Central, Web Services

Deep insert with Business Central APIs

5 May
Posted on May 5, 2020July 1, 2020 20

Recently I got a question from a partner: is it possible to insert a sales order and lines all at once with a Business Central API? And the answer to that question is, yes, that is possible. However, little documentation … Read More »

API, Business Central, Web Services

Codeunit API’s in Business Central

5 Mar
Posted on March 5, 2020July 1, 2020 54

This blog post was on my list way too long… But now I found some time to sit down and write it. Disclaimer What I’m going to show here is officially not supported (yet). It is an undocumented feature that … Read More »

API, Business Central, Web Services

Using tables instead of table extensions

3 Mar
Posted on March 3, 2020 20

Recently James Crowter wrote an excellent article about table extensions and how they affect performance. In short, table extensions are great for flexibility and ease of development, but performance decreases when the number of table extensions is adding up. Especially … Read More »

Business Central

Follow-up on secret values in a Business Central app

4 Feb
Posted on February 4, 2020 4

Wow… the community proved to be strong! About 10 days ago I asked to find the secret value in an app file and many of you really tried! Thank you so much! Before I move on, I would like to … Read More »

AL, Business Central

Contest: find the secret value in a Business Central app

23 Jan
Posted on January 23, 2020January 23, 2020 8

This is the first blog post about shipping a secret value in a Business Central app. I have prepared an app file that contains a secret value that will be stored into Isolated Storage. But I’m not 100% if this … Read More »

Business Central, Extensions

How to use the Excel Buffer in Business Central cloud

18 Jan
Posted on January 18, 2020 14

A week ago, my friend Daniel asked a question on Twitter how to use the Excel Buffer to export data with Business Central online. Many functions on the Excel Buffer are only available for on-prem. When you change the target … Read More »

AL, Business Central

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