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Documenting your Business Central (custom) APIs with OpenAPI / Swagger

For reasons that are not too important, I am trying to find a way to “describe my custom APIs”. You know. You’re at a project, you had to implement an integration with a 3rd party application, and you develop some custom APIs for it. When done, you have to communicate this to the 3rd party …

Webinar 20. June: Business Central API's in the upcoming version of PowerBI Desktop

Join our free Directions 4 Partners webinar on Thursday 24 June at 16:00 CET with MVP Steven Renders to demonstrate how to create and use the Business Central API's in the upcoming version of PowerBI Desktop.  

Inside Git: Branches

It has again been a while since I blogged – or video-blogged for that matter. I won’t offer any excuses – I’ve been very busy over the past month. I delivered two public webinars, both of which were fully booked and ended up very successful. The first one was Leveraging Git, and it was the […]

Newsletter: May update

Dear Directions Community Member,   Welcome to the May edition of Directions 4 Partners newsletter geared toward giving the most up-to-date information to the Dynamics Community. We'll arrive in your inbox once a month, to keep you informed!     DIRECTIONS ASIA RECAP We've had an amazing Directions ASIA conference and we would like to thank you all our attendees and sponsor ...

Word Templates and Word merge in Business Central

Word Templates and Word merge in Business Central Mail Merge in Business Central You can use the mail merge functionality in Word to use data from Business Central to add a personal touch to bulk communications. When you want to send a document to a lot of recipients (for example, to your customers and contacts as part of a sales […]

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Learn Modern Business Central Cloud Development with Visual Studio Code, Git and DevOps

Learning how to customize  Business Central Cloud solutions from scratch or transforming your classic Dynamics NAV development knowledge, skill set and heuristics towards modern Business Central development tools including Visual Studio Code, AL and...

How to enhance Business Central Role centers with the power of Widget Containers and jQuery

How to enhance Business Central Role centers with the power of Widget Containers and jQuery Using the ControlAddins and power of jQuery it is possible to add container widgets to roles centers to extend their functionality, using the page parts in which to publish the widgets. Surely, this is interesting for demos as other products do the same thing, giving […]

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A somewhat easier way to generate a DGML Dependency Graph of your Business Central extensions

You might have read my post “Visualize app.json dependencies in VSCode (using GraphViz)” where I explained “another” way to generate a dependency graph. Another than what? Well – other than the DGML that was just announced on Microsoft’s Launch Event of Business Central 2020 Wave 2 as being “on the drawing board”. Well – today …

Update apps installed from Appsource in Business Central Online with Powershell

Update apps installed from Appsource in Business Central Online with Powershell This post will show you how you can update apps installed from the Marketplace in Business Central Cloud with Powershell. In the example below, powershell will be used which will invoke the APIs needed to update the APPs installed from the marketplace. For convenience I added a couple of […]

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Stabilize your Job Queue – a few tricks

For a few people, this will be a very “current problem”, for other, that have suffered through years of “unstable” NAS and Job Queue for that matter .. this upcoming blogpost might be interesting. The primary reason for this post is an issue that – after quite some debugging – seemed to be an issue …