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166 articles · Page 3 of 14I have published a new simple, open-source extension that allows replacing existing document attachments in all master entities as well as in open documents. The source code as well as the app file that can be installed in your environment is available on my GitHub using this link: TKapitan/AL-Example-ReplaceDocAttachment: AL Example – How to replace
1 min readThis is the sixth part of my series about the Business Central Admin Center. Previous parts: Left menu: Reported Outages Overview of reported outages confirmed by Microsoft. Left menu: Operations Environment Operations contains information about all updates on the environment level. This includes environment rename, deletion, update, extension update or configuration update. The status provides
2 min readThis is the sixth part of my series about the Business Central Admin Center. Previous parts: Next parts: Left menu: Notification Recipients Let’s start with the left menu items. The first item in the left menu is “Notification Recipients“. Here you can specify who should receive any important updates about the Business Central tenant. Every
2 min readThis is the fifth part of my series about the Business Central Admin Center. Previous parts: Next parts: Environments details: Application Insights Connection String Application Insights aka Business Central Telemetry. Something you should already be familiar with. And if you are not still using telemetry, check the official Microsoft documentation – Enable Sending Telemetry to
2 min readOne of the most important things every developer should handle is to clean up the environment when the environment (or a company) is copied. Especially if the environment is managed directly by a client and they can create new copies anytime. Similarly, for copied companies. How to do this? It’s really easy. Microsoft is already
2 min readThis is the fourth part of my series about the Business Central Admin Center. Previous parts: Next parts: Top menu: Copy The action that I use the most often. Copy allows you to create a new environment from the existing one – for example, new sandbox from your production environment. It is really simple –
3 min readFor many years, developers in C/AL did not need to know anything about Git or other versioning tools. That has changed with Business Central, or more specifically with AL Language. Today, we will look at the most important (and basic) git commands any developer should know. These commands are usually quicker and more professional than
5 min readThis is the third part of my series about the Business Central Admin Center. Previous parts: Next parts: The previous article described “Apps”, “Sessions”, “Database”, and “Support” actions. In this episode, I will look at the “Update Settings” actions available in the Business Central Admin Center on the environment details page. Environment details Let’s look
3 min readIt’s not uncommon to have a customer’s request to limit from which source items could be reserved. For example, customers may not want to reserve items from return orders. How can we achieve this goal? It’s really simple. All the magic is done in the procedure SetValueArray(…) in codeunit 99000845 “Reservation Management”. As we are
3 min readThis is the second part of my series about the Business Central Admin Center. Previous parts: Next parts: The previous article described “Apps” and “Sessions” actions. In this episode, I will look at other actions available in the Business Central Admin Center on the environment details page. Top menu: Database -> Create database export “Create
3 min readBusiness Central admin center is a useful tool that allows admin to manage Business Central environments. In this article (and probably in a few more articles in the upcoming weeks), I will show all pages and actions that are available to admin. Next parts: To get to the Business Central admin center, click on the
3 min readJust a few days ago, I returned back home to Brisbane from another great conference – Directions4Partners ASIA in Bangkok. And it was again a TOP event with an amazing organization team and also the best community. First of all, I would like to thank all organizers for such an amazing event. It was an
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