Enhancing Business Central’s New Sales Pricing Experience

You might remember the post about Fast Price Entry that I have written back in January 2023. Or not. I was not completely satisfied with the solution I created back then. I decided to do something more. So, what is this post about? It is about the new feature named New sales pricing experience forContinue reading "Enhancing Business Central’s New Sales Pricing Experience"

E-Document Integration in Business Central: Key Features and Benefits

The new E-Document functionality has been released with Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 2. Since introduction, Microsoft has included a connector named Pagero and announced that Avalara connector will be available from 25.1. Some more localized connectors are "cooking" in the Microsoft's kitchen, but the general idea is to address the fact the eInvoicingContinue reading "E-Document Integration in Business Central: Key Features and Benefits"

Dynamics 365 Business Central: Intro to Subscription Billing

My colleagues and I started developing the module called "DYCE Subscription & Recurring Billing" in mid-2020, based on Singhammer's expertise in this area. We were a team of two developers and two consultants backed up with the circle of few more people that were brainstorming the concepts. Later on, we got some reinforcement and onContinue reading "Dynamics 365 Business Central: Intro to Subscription Billing"

Dynamics 365 Business Central: Conditional Page Break in Word Layout

From time to time, I receive a question if the conditional page break is possible in Business Central when Word Layout is used for a report. And there is a nice German word for this type of answer: Jein. In English: yes and no. That in my book means that in order to achieve somewhatContinue reading "Dynamics 365 Business Central: Conditional Page Break in Word Layout"

Dynamics 365 Business Central: Conditional Formatting in Word Layout

Recently Microsoft announced a new feature for Word Layouts which Steve Renders (and maybe some others) described in his blog post: https://thinkaboutit.be/2024/09/quick-tip-bc-2024-wave-2-sandbox-preview-new-word-add-in/ Seeing Microsoft moving forward with the Word Add-in I thought it would be nice occasion to show one "not so pretty" workaround that enables conditional formatting for Word Layouts. You know, Christmas isContinue reading "Dynamics 365 Business Central: Conditional Formatting in Word Layout"

Warnings Cleanup in AL

Warning! This is a post for developers only. If you are not a developer, the chances are that you will not benefit of reading this post except if you really like reading my blog or me personally. This story is about the legacy Business Central app named SITE that was developed for more than twoContinue reading "Warnings Cleanup in AL"

Reservations challenges in Microsoft Dynamics Business Central

I would like to share another topic that drew my attention recently as I wasn't aware of the "problem". Here is the simple scenario: Create a Sales Order and a Sales Line for an Item Create a Purchase Order and a Purchase Line for an Item Try to (auto) reserve the Sales Order Line againstContinue reading "Reservations challenges in Microsoft Dynamics Business Central"

WebClient crashing in Business Central fixed

Remember my blogpost about WebClient crashing? Yes, this one: How to crash the WebClient in Business Central in seconds. Well, I just wanted to give the credits to the Microsoft support that was able to reproduce the issue and escalate it further in short time. The fix is expected to be releases soon - hopefully withContinue reading "WebClient crashing in Business Central fixed"

How to crash the WebClient in Business Central in seconds

This is a true story that comes from experience gathered from a journey named: "let's stick with the standard functionality". It is funny although it makes some people (our clients and developers) almost cry. For the legacy product I am working on we have created a migration routine to move the Data from a customContinue reading "How to crash the WebClient in Business Central in seconds"

Price and discount groups – New pricing experience in Business Central

With the introduction of New Pricing Experience in Business Central, requirements for usability improvements are picking up. One of those is the subject of this article. Entering and viewing of the prices and discounts using new pricing experience is seen as somewhat cumbersome. In a single price list, there are following Assign-to Types available: AllContinue reading "Price and discount groups – New pricing experience in Business Central"