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Change in base URLs for Business Central SaaS Tenants. I have noticed the Business Central links for Tenants have changed. For Production the URL in use will be https://businesscentral.dynamics.com/<Tenant ID>/Production whereas earlier the URL https://businesscentral.dynamics.com/<Tenant ID>/ For Sandbox the URL in use will be https://businesscentral.dynamics.com/<Tenant ID>/Sandbox whereas earlier the URL was the same as current URL This changes are mainly to distinguish between the multiple Production Tenants coming up in October with the 2019 Wave 2  Release. For now, both the Old and New Production Tenant URLs are operational. If you login through  https://home.dynamics.com/   or through Admin Center it will redirect you through the New URL. I will keep you posted as soon as notice an updates. #msdynbc #msftadvocate #businesscentral #changeinurls #msdyn365bc

Introduction: After a successful Go-Live in Business Central, we somehow need to delete a record from Backend. There is no way of doing this until you write a code to delete the specific record. I also had a word with Microsoft Support Team who recommend taking this approach. Thus I have created a Generic Record Deletion Tool where you have to put your Table Number and Primary Keys to delete the specific record. Record Deletion Tool :  https://github.com/olisterr/Data-Deletion-Tool/blob/master/Report%2050199%20DataDeletionReport.al Pre-requisites: Microsoft Dynamics Business Central Books & References: https://forum.mibuso.com/discussion/6922/how-to-setrange-and-find-a-record-with-recordref-datatype Demonstration: NOTE: This tool is available for free without any warranties. Use it at you own risk. 1. Global Search for the Tool: Searching for the Record Deletion Tool 2. Filter records by Table No. and Primary Keys: Filling in the Table No. and Pr...

Introduction: In my last blog post ( Business Central API -1 ) on Creating API in Business Central, we discussed all the commonly used properties of the page, query, and controls like field and data-item. In today's blog, we will be diving deeply into the validation of the data passed through the API endpoint, how it enters into the source tables and is manipulated to be inserted/modified into single or multiple tables. Also, I will be demonstrating how APIs are to be used. Pre-requisites: Microsoft Dynamics Business Central (SaaS) VS Code( https://code.visualstudio.com/download ) AL Language Extension( https://tinyurl.com/yyvzxwkb ) API V1 from Business Central On-Premise DVD Books & References: API V1 from Business Central On-Premise DVD API(V1.0) for Business Central ( Click Here ) API(Beta) for Business Central ( Click Here ) Theory: Understanding API in Business Central 1. BINDSUBSCRIPTIONS: Use to trigger IntegrationEvent for the Codeunit stated ...

Introduction: With the evolution of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central from Microsoft Dynamics NAV, many of us did not get the chance to completely explore Business Central to its entirety. One such bug that I found in Business Central is when you Cancel a Posted Sales Credit Memo, system throws an error. Let take a closer look at the bug. Pre-requisites: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Microsoft Dynamics NAV Demonstration: When Cancelling a Posted Sales Credit Memo, the error I get is  ' The General Posting Setup does not exist. Identification fields and values: Gen. Bus. Posting Group='DEFAULT',Gen. Prod. Posting Group='' ' When I created a General Posting Setup with Gen. Business Posting Group as 'DEFAULT' and Gen. Prod. Posting Group as '' I get an error  ' Gen. Prod. Posting Group must be filled in. Enter a Value. ' This in not only related to Posted Sales Credit Memo but all the Fi...

Introduction: Issues when you deploy your app in Business Central Production VS Business Central Sandbox. Let us what are the implications of the statement. In my last blog () I have already pointed out the difference in Profile as to how can create new Profile in Business Central Sandbox but the same is not possible in Business Central Production. Pre-requisite: Microsoft Dynamics Business Central (SaaS) Demonstration: 1. I was working with General Journals after deploying the App in Production Environment. Suddenly during posting I go this error. 2. To Verify this issue is not of Permission Set, I gave the User SUPER Permission and tried again. I got the same error despite giving SUPER Permission. Again the same the error, so I checked the Effective Permissions. I noticed that Table G/L Entry has an Indirect Permission. I replicated the same Production in Sandbox. But I didn’t find any issue like this. 3. Moreover, I noticed that w...

Introduction: Today, as I was playing around in Business Central with some of my customization for General Journals where I wanted to flow a field from General Journal to G/L Entries using Event Subscriber, I noticed something weird. Pre-requisites: Microsoft Dynamics Business Central Solution: As I was looking for an Event which will trigger when General Journal Entries are posted, I found these entries by browsing through Codeunit 12 Gen-Jnl Post. I found that ' OnAfterRunWithoutCheck ' event works. So I proceeded to confirm by adding a Simple Hello World Message in the Event Subscriber and the message didn't pop. Thus, I wasn't sure if that was the specific event to subscribe to. Message Added to Event Subscriber No Message appeared after Posting I tried with a list of Event Subscribers and also, Table Triggers(OnBeforeDelete, OnAfterInsert) do not work during posting Frustrated unable to find the issue, I realised I missed using Event Re...

To 'Whomsoever This May Concern', When I was working on a Production Deployment for one of my clients, I noticed that I could not create a Profile in Business Central Production Tenant. I was able to create new Profile in Sandbox. Then I tried using configuration Package and modify the contents of 2000000178 Profile Table and as always configuration package blocked it. There was no way of dealing with this other than   contacting Microsoft Support and this is the answer I get from a Support Engineer I was on the verge to give my clients a link pointing to a specific page i.e  https://businesscentral.dynamics.com/?page=50150 After being a little creative, I figured out that developing profile objects might help. And this resolved this issue for me.

Introduction: Working with failed Scheduled Jobs can be a tiresome process. This is exactly the case where one of my client has an Invoicing & Payment Jobs which run once a day and Job Queue Entries fail to trigger these Jobs. No Errors in the Logs, No Execution Entry, Simply No Way of Figuring it out as to why Job didn't trigger. Contacting Microsoft Support, they are asking to simply Upgrade the Application to latest version. Which is not a preferred option as the database size is around 200GB. Let's see how to resolve this in a smarter way. Pre-requisites: Microsoft Windows Task Scheduler Microsoft Windows Powershell Microsoft Dynamics NAV(Administration Module for PowerShell & Development Environment) Books & References: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.dynamics.nav.management/?view=businesscentral-ps Demonstration: 1. Building Objects to Run through a Codeunit: As you know that Job Queue Entries support Reports and C...

Introduction: Imagine a scenario where as per the requirements provided by your clients, you have set up the Database structure in NAV/Business Central. Then comes a requirement in Phase 2 which completely redefines the database structure which was provided by you and you need to delete a few fields in a table and move it to another table. Pre-requisites: Microsoft Dynamics NAV Microsoft Dynamics Business Central Books & References: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/developer/properties/devenv-obsoletestate-property Solution: 1. In Microsoft Dynamics NAV, there was a flexibility to delete fields, tables, and keys and using  Force-Sync, you can directly delete the field, table, and keys from SQL Database. 2. Whereas in Microsoft Dynamics Business Central, you cannot delete the fields, keys, and tables. In order to deploy this deleted change, you need to mention this field, table, and keys with Obsolete State Removed. ...

Introduction: Recently In Business Central, I have observed the format for General Journals where the unnecessary fields are hidden inorder to avoid confusion. Pre-requisites: Microsoft Dynamics Business Central Demonstration: There are 2 Views of General Journal in Business Central. 1. Limited field view: Limited Column View 2. All field view: Full Column View 3. Switching to Limited Field View: Switching to Limited Field View 4. Switching to All Field View: Conclusion: Thus, this limited view from all field view is helpful to avoid confusion during data entering but it has drawback. If you are entering Account No. as G/L Account and want to switch the Customer as Account Type, there is no way of doing it from Limited field view.This is because in General Journal functionality, Business Central automatically selects the Account Type from previous entry causing this drawback.