Problem Statement: I have a requirement where I want to update the Subform(Part page) from the Main page, this Subpage(Subform) is linked to the Main page by SubpageLink Property. The Subpage is a List page and I want to filter this list by a field from Main Page. Pre-requisites: VS Code AL Language Extension Microsoft Dynamics NAV /  Business Central Solution: To solve the above Problem statement we have to make use of the Currpage.Update() function which shall update the Subpage. As you can see in the below window a function is created Vendorfilter() on Subpage with the “vendor” parameter, in this function filter is added for the vendor on the part page and then CurrPage.Update() is used. This function will update the Subpage with the vendor. Now, call this function on “OnValidate” trigger of the Main page field, here we have “Vendor” field on Main Page.     The calling of Function is as follows: CurrPage.<SubpageName>.Page.<FunctionName>(Rec.<FieldName>); In this example we have CurrPage.POLines.page.Vendorfilter(Rec.Vendor); Conclusion: Thus we can achieve updating a Subform from a Main Page. Hope this helps!

Introduction: In this blog, I will be attempting to provide information about the new Application Lifecycle Management features of Business Central Wave 2. Pre-requisites: Microsoft Dynamics Business Central Wave 2. Demonstration: 1.Report Production Outages in Administration Center.   Suppose there occurs a case where the user is having issues on Production Environment, in order to get help on such issues, the user can report such cases to Microsoft, this is achieved by visiting Admin Centre >> Environments >> and then click “Report Production Outage” as shown below.   After that fill in the details as shown below, i.e. Outage type, Name, Email address, Contact Number and on the next page fill in the details of errors and the time and date of Outage occurrence as shown below. When the user reports the Outage, a message is displayed with the ticket Number. Then the reported outage is displayed on the Reported Outages Menu as shown below: And the user gets an Email regarding the outage. 2. Multiple production environments New Business Central Wave 2 brings a new feature where users can have multiple Production Environments for different localizations. After creating multiple Productions when the user visits “home.dynamics.com”, the user is asked for which Production Environment he wants to visit as shown below.   3. Detailed Notification for Update Events The following image shows a detailed notification mail for the update events of Tenant. Hope this helps!

Introduction: In this blog, I will be attempting to provide information about the new Modern Client features of Business Central Wave 2. Pre-requisites: Microsoft Dynamics Business Central Wave 2. Demonstration: Overview of All Business Central Features in Single Click. With the new release of Business Central comes a new feature where users can see all the features of Business Central in a Single Click. On the Dashboard, user can locate a “hamburger” next to Actions on the top right of the screen, when the user clicks on it, a new window is displayed that shows all the features of Business Central according to Profiles (Roles). The screen displayed in the above picture shows All features for “Cronus General Manager” which is personalized for that Role. The screen displayed above shows All features for Role – “Accountant”.   2. Identify your Companies with Badges. When users are working with multiple companies, it is possible that confusion about companies may occur, to keep things clear users can make use of this feature which can be achieved with the following steps:- Step 1: Go to Company Information and change “Company Badge” to “Custom”. Step 2: Select “Company Badge Style” from a range of 10 different colors available as shown below and write a four-letter “Company Badge Text” as shown. Now the user can see the company’s badge as created on the top right corner of the Dashboard. 3. Modern clients only for Business Central Users can work with Business Central in the browser, Windows 10 desktop app, or mobile apps on Android and iOS. With this release, Dynamics NAV Windows Client is no longer available. Windows 10 Desktop App: Mobile App:   Hope this helps!

Introduction: In this blog, I will be attempting to provide information about the new Modern Client features of Business Central Wave 2. Pre-requisites: Microsoft Dynamics Business Central Wave 2. Demonstration: Filter option fields by multiple values In the below picture, the user wants to apply a filter on an option field “Contact Type” on Customers, but the user can filter the data with either of the two options in Business Central. But with the new Business Central Wave 2 update, users can now filter option fields with multiple values as you can see below. 2. Multitasking across Multiple Pages: It is possible that users want to toggle between multiple pages, this feature was not available before, but it is possible in new Business Central Wave 2 update. Step 1: On the page, find the button highlighted below and click on the button that describes, “Open the page in a new window”. Step 2:  After Step 1 the page will open a new window as shown below. 3. Enter data with Speed and Agility Business Central wave 2 comes with more efficiency and agility,  data is entered with speed and agility, all the processing of fields in a record is done when the user adds a new record. 4. Longer timeout period for the server connection. In earlier versions of Business Central online, the session timeout period was set to 20 minutes. Microsoft has increased this value to two hours so that users are not asked to sign in to Business Central again and again. Note: This feature is only applicable to Business Central Online. For Business Central On-Premises, you can change the timeout in the Client Services tab in Business Central Server Administration. Hope this helps!

Introduction: In this blog, I will be attempting to highlight on Suggest Vendor Payment functionality in Payment Journals. Pre-requisites: Microsoft Dynamics Business Central Microsoft Dynamics NAV Demonstration: Last Payment Date: This date is the latest date which can be appeared on Vendor Ledger Entries for making the Payment. Entries that have Due Date or Discount Date before the Last Payment Date will be included in Suggest functionality. Last Payment Date Find Payment Discounts: Find all the Payments which will have discounts. If this field is TRUE then Suggest Vendor Payment functionality will include Payments with Discounts as well as Payments without Discounts. Find Payment Discounts Use Vendor Priority: While making payments, if you want to prepare the entries priority wise, then you will need to set the priority of Vendor under the Payments section. Use Vendor Priority   Priority field in Payment Section in Vendor Card By default, the priority is set to 0. If Vendor priority is not set which means that the Vendor Payments are to be processed in Alphabetically FCFS fashion. Available Amount: If the Available Amount is filled in which means that the maximum amount for the payments will be considered. Available Amount Skip Exported Payments: This boolean is used to skip those payments for which the Payment EFT file has been exported. This is generally used where the Payments are not supposed to be posted but the new payments are to be included in the list. Skip Exported Payments Check Other Journal Batches: This boolean field is used to skip all those payments which have already been included in the different General Journal Batches. This will avoid including duplicate payments. Check Other Journal Batches Summarize Per Vendor: This will make a single Payment per Vendor which will be applied to multiple documents. Also, this boolean will create separate payment entries for payments with different currencies. This feature cannot be used in conjunction with ‘Calculate Posting Date from Applied Entries‘ Summarize per Vendor By Dimension: This will create the entries for which the applied document will have the correct dimension. By Dimension Posting Date: Sets the Posting Date for the General Journal Lines. Posting Date is generally set to today’s date or date after the late payment date. Posting Date Calculate Posting Date from Applied Entries: Sets the Posting Date from Applied Entries based upon the Due Date of the Applied Document. Calculate Posting Date from Application Starting Document No.: Starting No. Series for the Payment Journal. This value will be set to Next No. after current Payment Journal Lines have been created in Payment Journal. This field is generally auto-filled. Starting Document No. New Doc No. per Line: This is used to create a separate Document No. for a separate entry line. When this is set to false, automatically a single Document No. is used for multiple entries of a single Vendor. New Doc. No. per Line Balance Account Type: Balance account type can be a G/L Account or Bank. Bal. Account Type Bank Account No. Used to generate only payments from a specific Bank Account. Vendor Filters: Vendor Filters are basically used to get only those payments related to a particular Vendor. Vendor Filters Conclusion: Thus, Suggest Vendor Payments can be a pretty good tool to deal with Payments where you don’t have to manually go and reconcile for the Vendor Purchase Invoices. There are a lot of variants to get the pending Payments with a lot of filters in Suggested Vendor Payments.

Change in base URLs for Business Central SaaS Tenants. I have noticed the Business Central links for Tenants have changed. For Production the URL in use will be https://businesscentral.dynamics.com/<Tenant ID>/Productionwhereas earlier the URL https://businesscentral.dynamics.com/<Tenant ID>/ For Sandbox the URL in use will be https://businesscentral.dynamics.com/<Tenant ID>/Sandbox whereas earlier the URL was the same as current URLThis changes are mainly to distinguish between the multiple Production Tenants coming up in October with the 2019 Wave 2  Release. For now, both the Old and New Production Tenant URLs are operational.If you login through https://home.dynamics.com/  or through Admin Center it will redirect you through the New URL. I will keep you posted as soon as notice an updates. #msdynbc #msftadvocate #businesscentral #changeinurls #msdyn365bc

Introduction: After a successful Go-Live in Business Central, we somehow need to delete a record from Backend. There is no way of doing this until you write a code to delete the specific record. I also had a word with Microsoft Support Team who recommend taking this approach. Thus I have created a Generic Record Deletion Tool where you have to put your Table Number and Primary Keys to delete the specific record. Record Deletion Tool : https://github.com/olisterr/Data-Deletion-Tool/blob/master/Report%2050199%20DataDeletionReport.al Pre-requisites: Microsoft Dynamics Business Central Books & References: https://forum.mibuso.com/discussion/6922/how-to-setrange-and-find-a-record-with-recordref-datatype Demonstration: NOTE: This tool is available for free without any warranties. Use it at you own risk. 1. Global Search for the Tool: Searching for the Record Deletion Tool 2. Filter records by Table No. and Primary Keys: Filling in the Table No. and Primary Keys 3. During Record Deletion: Shows the Record Deletion Confirmation 4. After Record Deletion: After the Record is Deleted.   Conclusion: This Record Deletion Tool I have added as an extension to Olof Simren’s Data Deletion Toolkit (https://github.com/olisterr/Data-Deletion-Tool). This tool can be used after Post Go-Live to delete a record in Business Central Production Environment. Also, it can help you browse through the Table Data inorder to find a record. Hope this is useful to you. Let me know in comments.

Introduction: In this blog, how multiple Production Environment works. Prerequisites: Microsoft Dynamics Business Central Yammer subscription( to refer the yammer links ) Books & References: https://www.yammer.com/dynamicsnavdev/threads/360051585302528 Demonstration / Solution: 1. Creation of multiple Production Tenant and Login: Creating a Production Environment with different Localization When system is Preparing a Production Environment When you Login in https://businesscentral.dynamics.com, the system asks you to select the environment to log in If you use the https://businesscentral.dynamics.com/<PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT NAME>, it directly takes you to the respective environment. 2. How licensing works for multiple Production Tenant.: As per Licensing for October 2019 which states that only One Production Tenant is available. Business Central October 2019 Licensing Guide –  Default Subscription Capacities After a conversation back and forth it was clarified that the licensing will be actually updated by April 2020 Wave 1 Release Refer: https://www.yammer.com/dynamicsnavdev/threads/360051585302528 Taking a level further as per discussion with, we, at CloudFronts have envisioned using multiple localization Production Tenant and then consolidate the Financial Reports. 3. How to leverage Intercompany – multiple localization Production Tenant and then consolidate the Financial Reports: For now, the consolidation of multiple legal entities in multiple Production Tenant is in backlog with no ETA provided. Let us see if we can do it manually in some way. Conclusion: Thus, this blog was just to give information about multiple Production Environment deployments, Default Subscription Capabilities and Intercompany consolidation of multiple production environments. I shall try to manually consolidate multiple production environments in my upcoming blogs.

Inventory Posting Group: Use to specify the type of Inventory or group the item. Inventory Posting setup: Use to combine Inventory Posting group with location codes. Each combination is then mapped to the inventory accounts, WIP account, and other variance accounts relating to inventory in the chart of accounts. Steps: Set up Inventory Posting Group In the search option, enter the Inventory Posting Group and then choose the related link. Select New. In the Code field, type a unique identifier. In the Description field, type description of Inventory Posting Group.   Steps: Set up Inventory Posting Setup In the search option, enter Inventory Posting Setup and then choose the related link. Select New to insert a new line. In Location Code Field, select the relevant location to combine with the inventory posting group. Select the relevant inventory posting group in the Inventory Posting Group Code field. In each relevant account field, enter the G/L accounts that will be used to post transactions to: Inventory Account: Specifies the number of the G/L account that item transactions with this combination of Location and Inventory Posting group posted to. Inventory Account (Interim): Specifies the number of the G/L account to which to post the transactions with the expected cost for items in this combination. WIP Account: Specifies the general ledger account number to which to post transactions for items in WIP inventory in this combination. Material Variance Account: Specifies the number of general ledger account to which Material variance transactions for items in this combination. Capacity Variance Account: Specifies the number of general ledger account to which to post capacity variance transactions for items in this combination. Subcontracted Variance Account: Specifies the number of general ledger account to which to post subcontracted variance transactions for items in this combination. Overhead Variance Account: Specifies the number of general ledger account to which to post capacity overhead variance transactions for items in this combination. Overhead Variance Account: Specifies the number of general ledger account to which to post Manufacturing overhead variance transactions for items in this combination.   Steps: Assign Inventory Posting group to Item In the search option, enter Items and then choose the related link. Open the Item card Expand the Cost & Posting FastTab, in the Inventory Posting Group field, enter the appropriate posting group. Conclusion: Inventory posting group and setup use to posts entry to the G/L account specified for the combination of inventory posting group and location code linked to the item line entry.

1. Saving and personalizing list views. Suppose we want to switch between pages and we want to add filters, so to achieve this we have to add filters every time we come back to that page, this feature was not available in the previous version of Business Central but now it has been added by the developers. We can save a combination of filters as our view and access it again and again.   2. Personalize actions and navigation on your Home page With the Business Central Wave 2 Release users can easily add their desired pages to their Role centers, making these pages easily accessible to the user. 3. Design for Extensibility. Users can adjust actions and action groups on their Role Center. Adjust the navigation menu items and grouping on a Role Center. Customize user profiles by designing page changes that will apply only to a specific profile in your extension.