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Areopa webinars: Why are dataflows so interesting for Power BI and Business Central?

The Areopa webinar “ Why are dataflows so interesting for Power BI and Business Central? “, is now available on YouTube: 20221219 – Why are dataflows so interesting for Power BI and Business Central – YouTube It was an honor to be asked by Luc...

A Business Central “Upgrade Code” saga…

Not too long ago, we had an upgrade issue at a customer: the upgrade timed out, and after investigation, it was simply because our upgrade code: it took too long to modify 130000 records (well – and quite some validations, I admit, but still – it’s not that much, is it?). This made me hold …

Business Central from On-Premise to Cloud APIs

Business Central Cloud Migration Scenario It’s possible to use APIs to perform the data migration in automatic mode (Silent Mode).

Save the date: 𝗗𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗔𝗦𝗜𝗔 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯 | 𝗔𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗹 𝟮𝟳-𝟮𝟴,𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯

Directions4Partners invite you to Directions ASIA 2023 on April 27-28, 2023The conference will be held at the Avani Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand.

 

Proudly announcing the Directions 2022 Community Awards

Proud to announce the winners of the Directions EMEA 2022 Community Awards! The first winners  were not only celebrated on stage in Hamburg, they were also invited for an inspiring lunch with Mike Morton, Vice President, Dynamics 365 Business Central at Microsoft.

Prepare for the new invoice posting engine!

Introduction In version 2021 wave 2 (v19) a new feature was introduced, called “Extend general ledger posting aggregations”. The reason for this new feature is that the table "Invoice Post. Buffer" could not easily be extended. This table is used ...

How do I: Monitor the Business Central Job Queue using Power BI?

Recently I had a situation where a job queue failed in Business Central. Actually, it had been failing for a few days, and in Business Central, as far as I now, there’s no way, out of the box, to get a notification about that. So, I got thinking, could...

How do I: Create an Excel Layout Report?

Not so long-ago Excel report layouts were added in Business Central. With Excel layouts for Business Central reports, users can now create and edit report layouts simply by using the full palette of capabilities in Excel such as sliders , diagrams ...

The Business Central “Data Search” app (under the hood)

One of the things that totally slipped by me, is the new app from Microsoft that apparently was released in the last wave called “Data Search“. It’s a simple, but powerful concept: Search for “any” record in your data. Well, any record that you have set up to search for at least ;-). It is …

IsolatedStorage, a way to store global data in a session

Microsoft Definition for Isolated Storage: “Provides data isolation for extensions”     Isolated Storage “Isolated storage” is a data storage