I started working at Geoson Solutions Ltd. as a Software Developer and today marks the end of my first week here. Learning about the company’s products and how to use them has been exciting. I would love to share the start of my journey here! Introduction to Sales Hub (D365) My main objective so far …
As my work term at Geoson Solutions comes to an end, I believe now is a good time to reflect on my time here as a software developer co-op. For my last blog post, I thought it might be a good idea to document some key concepts I’ve learn before I start my next chapter. …
Integrating an external dependency can help speed up your development cycle if you are developing an extension for Business Central. In my last task for this Co-op work term, I used an external app as a dependency for one of the Geoson’s projects. Adding An External Dependency There are already a lot of extensions for …
We can use the built-in “Control Addin Object” in AL to use JavaScript and render dynamic HTML onto a page in Business Central. In this post we will create a basic iFrame (a webpage within a Business Central page). File Structure If you want to follow along, add this file structure to your new AL …
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Deploying a Business Central application to Microsoft’s AppSource is a whole new world on its own. Here are a couple of tools that have helped me in the process of developing and Business Central app extensions and what I recommend people who have the intent of publishing an app App Source. AL Language Extension You …
This week I created an automated workflow that emails a report to a user weekly. To do this, I used a ‘Codeunit’ to implement the logic and a ‘Job Queue’ to schedule the task at hand. Although there are built-in workflows in Business Central, I found that writing an AL script. Codeunit For Sending Emails …
One of the reports I worked on this week required me to read data from a Blob field on a Business Central page. A BLOB (Binary Large Object) is a complex data type in Business Central with a variable-length allowing it to store text, bitmaps, or user-defined files with a max size of 2 GB. …
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A table “record” is a complex data structure I’ve used often when scripting a report or an extension. Creating a record basically gives us an instance of a table within Business Central’s database; rows of the table are stored within this data type based on the current filter or range set on it. Since AL …
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This week I was tasked to create a more complex report script where I needed to extract data from a table indirectly linked to the current report/extension. Business Central pages are usually linked together such that a filter is placed on the data of the current page based on some field from the previous page. …
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This weeks workload was filled with many UI changes in Business Central. These changes were needed to prepare for the upcoming migration of one of our client’s data from their current Dynamics GP ERP solution. Built-in UI Designer Throughout the week, I was introduced to a couple of tools that assisted my development workflow in …
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