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Events

Directions4Partners EMEA

I’m super happy that my session (together with @MVPKine) for Directions4Partners EMEA has been accepted! Directions4Partners EMEADirections EMEA 2022 (directions4partners.com)9th – 11th of November 2022Hamburg – Germany Data Exchange Deep-dive Let’s build your own super-cool integration using configuration fields such as “Data Handling Codeunit “, “Validation Codeunit”, “Ext. Data Handling Codeunit “, and many more.

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Debugging and launch.json improvements in BC 2022 wave 2 (v21)

In the new version of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, there are also some changes to the debugging and launch.json configuration. Launch specific company Having more than one company within your development environment is rare. However, having more companies in a sandbox environment or in a production environment is not so unusual. In that case,

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I’m joining the public BC Base App contribution pilot!

Long-planned change is almost there! Almost two years ago, Microsoft revealed a new plan to allow industry experts to contribute not only to the system apps but also to the base app. And it’s almost there! Right now, the repository is available only for pilot members (check BC TechDays 2022 – Collaborating on Business Central’s

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Events

Planned sessions for 2022Q4 and 2023Q1/Q2

Many fabulous conferences have been announced for the next year. I have already planned what I want to attend as a speaker in the first half of the next year. I still do not know which session I will be presenting at Directions EMEA 2022 later this year (will be announced in a few days),

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Events

D365 Business Central Czech & Slovak User Group

Last month, I and @MVPKine have started a new D365 Business Central Czech & Slovak User Group. This group is primarily focusing on Czech & Slovak people who work with Business Central (end users, consultants, developers, …). Such a group is something I missed for years! In only three days, we have our very first

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Events

DIRECTIONS EMEA 2022, Hamburg, Germany

Do not forget that Early Bird tickets for Directions EMEA 2022 in Hamburg, Germany, end at the end of August. If you still do not have your tickets, take one directly at Directions EMEA 2022 (directions4partners.com) As always, all of the top speakers from Business Central and other Dynamics products will be there (and I

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Collectible Errors?! Is it already in use?

Collectible Errors?! Is it already in use? This is the second part of my new article series about Collectible Errors. Let’s check out the first part here: Collectible Errors?! | Microsoft Dynamics 365 – Ing. Tom Kapitan (kepty.cz) or you might be interested in my very first article about collectible errors from the last year

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Collectible Errors?!

Collectible Errors?! It has been already almost a year since ErrorInfo datatype & CollectibleErrors were introduced (I already have an article about basic structure: ErrorInfo data type & Collectible Errors). This article was released for the first time in September 2021 before this functionality was publicly available. Since then, there have been some changes and

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Reports

Report layouts in Excel? Yes!!!

Everyone is surely aware of how strong Excel is as a software. It has been deeply ingrained in corporate operations worldwide, whether it be for assessing stocks or companies, creating budgets, or organizing customer sales lists. Usage of Excel Layout Due to the fact that it comes with its own unique set of functions, the

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Reports

Substituting standard reports

Report objects cannot be extended in versions previous to the Business Central 2021 release wave 1 version when ReportExtensions object was introduced. Since then, many of changes we need to do in reports can be done without creating a new copy of object. On the other hand, there are definitely still many occasions where it’s

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Isolated events

With Business Central 2022 wave 1, a new setting for event publishers was introduced. Until this version, any error in any event subscriber caused interruption to the current running process and stopped the whole activity. In some cases (such as log-in), this is definitely unintended. For this reason, Microsoft introduced Isolated Event Publishers. These events

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Custom Filter Tokens

As a user of the Business Central you have some constants you can use to filter or insert values. These constants contain useful values for data manipulation such as t / today for date field – return current date q / quarter for date field filters – return range of the current quarter w /

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