AL ID Range Manager (ALRM) for Business Central is available on Microsoft App Source!

What is ALRM?

What is ALRM: AL ID Range Manager

How to setup & use ALRM: AL ID Range Manager

Source Codes

ALRM extension for VS Code and also for Business Central are open-source projects available under MIT license. You can find source codes on my GitHub.

Business Central

VS Code

Few words about the Microsoft App Source & ALRM

I have a big thank you to my partner’s company, ARTEX Informacni systemy spol. s r.o., Microsoft GOLD Partner for Small and Midmarket Cloud Solutions under whose partner’s account the extension is published on App Source. I successfully cooperate with this company for more than 6 years on many amazing projects in different industries and different countries. If you are looking for a strong and modern partner for your project, let me know and I will connect you with the best of best.

My Contributions to BC2024 wave 1 (D365 Sales/CE related)

Mar 16, 2024 | AL Language, CRM Integration

As we are close to another major release, I will try to share some insights into upcoming changes. I do not want to repeat other authors and blog posts, as I think there are already enough posts about the most visible changes. Instead, I will describe the changes I...

Replace NoSeriesManagement with the new BC Foundation No. Series app (1/2)

Feb 18, 2024 | AL Language

In BC 2024 wave 1, Microsoft will introduce a new Business Central Foundation Layer with the first app - redesigned No. Series. A few weeks back, Microsoft merged their changes into the BCApps repository (see the pull request here: Introducing new Business Foundation...

Dynamics Corner, Episode 303: In the Dynamics Corner Chair: Kangaroos, Koalas, and Business Central!

Feb 18, 2024 | Events, Open-Source, User Experience

Are you interested in the Business Central Open-Source programs? Or do you want to know more about my journey from Europe to Australia? Check the last episode of the Dynamics Corner podcast! A few weeks back, I had the pleasure of speaking with Chris and Brad and...

BC Open Source? How to start?

Jan 3, 2024 | AL Language, Open-Source

BC Open Source? How to start? One of the most exciting news introduced last month in Lyon during Directions EMEA 2023 was the changes to the open-source initiative. This means that you can now contribute to the source code of the Base app and the System app, which are...

Validate a FlowField Field. Wait? What?

Dec 18, 2023 | AL Language

Validate a FlowField Field. Wait? What? There are not many things in the AL Language that surprised me. However, last week, I found one such thing - I reviewed customizations made by another partner and had to analyze the OOTB code of the Demand Forecast matrix. I run...

Synchronizing countries from D365 Sales to D365 Business Central

Nov 24, 2023 | AL Language, CRM Integration

Surprisingly, the out-of-the-box integration between Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central does not synchronize countries. Why? Because it could be hard to maintain this synchronization as, by default, the country field in D365 Sales...

Dynamics NAV 2013 & Expired Cronus License

Nov 23, 2023 | AL Language

We found an interesting problem - we were not able to run the development environment for Dynamics NAV 2013. Whenever we tried to run the development client, we got the following error message: "Your program license has expired" and the development client has closed...

Time, DateTime, Production Orders and Time Zones – not what I expected

Oct 12, 2023 | AL Language, User Experience

I decided to write this post to describe a problem we are dealing with when we are working with production orders through API or when there are users working in different time zones. Let's start with a quick introduction. Business Central has two datatypes that can...

Indirect Dependencies and Access Modifiers

Sep 29, 2023 | AL Language

Last week, there was a discussion on Yammer on how to get values from the "Sent Email" record when all fields are marked as Internal. I was surprised that many people do not know what can/can't access modifiers (such as local, protected, or internal) be used for. I...