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Administration

New concurrency limits for JQ in 23.3

With release 23.3, Microsoft completed the global rollout of concurrency JQ limit changes first introduced last year! Instead of a per-environment limit, Microsoft has shifted the focus to users (or Microsoft Entra Apps). Now, you can create more scheduled tasks per user, dynamically scaling your workload. The more users you have, the more tasks you can simultaneously

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AL Language

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

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 store times – Time and DateTime. What is the

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Administration

Business Central Admin Center, part 3 (Update Settings)

This 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

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Administration

Business Central Admin Center, part 2 (Database, Support)

This 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

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Administration

Business Central Admin Center, part 1 (Overview, Apps, Sessions)

Business 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

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Reports

Analysis mode in Business Central 2023 wave 1

Analysis mode is a new type of view for any list page, available from Business Central 2023 wave 1. This mode on list pages enables users to analyze and pivot data directly in the client. Let’s explore what is available and how it can be used. The feature is disabled by default, so if you

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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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Administration

Monitored Fields

Another new functionality introduced with the Business Central 2020 Wave 2 (with version 17.1 in November specifically) is called “Monitored Fields”. This functionality is built over the original Change Log functionality and use the same tables and procedures; however, extends the core functionality with email notifications when any of the defined fields are changed. To

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General

UI enhancements in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2020 Wave 2

Dynamics 365 has come out with a comprehensive plan for the release of business central 2020 wave 2. In this article I will focus on updates to page styling, more responsive FactBoxes, and an upgraded dialog bar for a seamless service and optimized productivity. Page styling updates You can’t have any new features brought in

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Data

Merge entity duplicity

In the case of duplicity in Customers, Vendors or Contacts, the system offers functionality to merge related record. To run it, go to the customer/vendor/contact card and run action “Merge With…”. The setup window is opened for the entity from which the page was started. In the header, the opposite entity with which we want

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General

New Features: Optimizing of pages

Page Loading One of the highly expected changes is optimization of pages. With the upcoming major version (2020 Wave 1) there should be a lot of changes to the behaviour and performance in pages. In the current version (2019 Wave 2 and older) the page is not opened till all data are loaded. So if

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