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AL ID Range Manager

ALRM: AL ID Range Manager has been updated!

I have just released a new version of ALRM extensions for VS Code as well as for Business Central. The latest versions are available for download on my GitHub and also directly in VS Code marketplace for free for any developers in AL Language. And what is new? – VS Code ALRM Changelog – D365

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AL ID Range Manager

How to start with ALRM: AL ID Range Manager

AL ID Range Manager is VS Code & Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central extensions made for developers who need to manage their object/field IDs across multiple projects (or in the multi-developers environment). If you want to know more about this project, check my previous article. The project was originally created as a part of our

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Import various file types with Interfaces

A few weeks ago, I described a solution for importing an Excel file to the Business Central using Excel Buffer in AL Language (see here). In today’s article, we will look at how to build a more complex solution that can be used for file imports without the needs to identify the imported file type.

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PowerPlatform Community – Business Central Bootcamp session

The Business Central Bootcamp conference is almost here! Let’s check all sessions and find your favourite ones at https://events.powercommunity.com/business-central-bootcamp/. You can register for the event using this registering form for FREE! I am part of this conference with a session “AL Language: Coding for performance session”. If you are interested in AL Language development, the

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Kepty4Beginners: Flowfields in AL Language (Calculated Fields)

Not all fields in AL Language are stored in SQL Database. Flowfields are a great example of these fields. Flowfields are special field type that allows you to create a field that loads a value from another field within the same or even different table. In the AL Language, flowfields are very often used, and

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New version of ALRM: AL ID Range Manager has just been released!

Today I have released a new version of both the ALRM (AL ID Range Manager) extension for Visual Studio Code and Microsoft Business Central. If you do not know what ALRM is, check some of previous articles here on my blog. Both extensions are available on my GitHub (link below). The new version of VS

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How to import Excel files using Excel Buffer

Last week, I saw a question about importing data from Excel file to Business Central using AL Language. A few years ago, the only solution was to use DotNet integration. However, with the Business Central, there is a much quicker and better approach. All functions for working with Excel files are available in a table

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Kepty4Beginners: How to create a basic entity

In today’s beginner series article, we will look at how to create a basic entity such as Item, Customer, Vendor etc. Creating basic entities is one of the core things anyone has to know. It is also necessary to know which properties must be defined (LookupPageID, CardPageID), which type of PageTypes should be used etc.

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OnAfterLookup: New page field trigger coming in v18

One of the news in AL Language that is coming with the upcoming major version (Business Central 2021 W1) in April is a new trigger AnAfterLookup. The new trigger is described on Microsoft Docs (however, the description is still a bit confusing…). As the Lookups are often used, I already tried what’s new and how

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Kepty4Beginners: AL Snippets

In today’s beginner series article, we will look at Snippets in AL Language. What are snippets? How can we use them? What is the reason to know how to use them/when to use them? All these questions are answered in the video below!

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Kepty4Beginners: How to create an AL Project

The first article from my new youtube channel is here (if you want to find out why I have decided to start my own youtube channel, see here)! This is the very first video for beginners – how to create a new AL project. In this video, we will look at how to create a

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ALRM: AL ID Range Manager introduction

AL ID Range Manager is VS Code & Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central extensions made for developers who need to manage their object/field IDs across multiple projects (or in the multi-developers environment). Source codes are available online on GitHub Business Central https://github.com/TKapitan/ALRM-BusinessCentral VS Code https://github.com/TKapitan/ALRM-VSCode https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ARTAAAEfromCzechiaKeptycz.al-id-range-manager The project was originally created as a part of

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