Introduction Hi, Readers. Today I would like to talk about How to create a Business Central free trial tenant. References https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/microsoft-365/enterprise/office-365-e3?activetab=pivot:overviewtab Steps: Step 1: Search Office 365 E3 on Google or click on the below link. https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/microsoft-365/enterprise/office-365-e3?activetab=pivot:overviewtab Click on the Free trial Fill in personal details which are required Step 2: In the next screen, … Continue reading How to create a Business Central free trial tenant →

Introduction Have you ever faced the error: “Report ___ does not have a layout of type None.” Here’s how you can resolve it. Pre-requisites Business Central OnCloud/OnPrem References https://community.dynamics.com/business/b/think-about-it/posts/how-do-i-fix-error-report-x-does-not-have-a-layout-of-type-none Configuration With the earlier versions of Business Central, you were allowed to run a report without specifying a layout, even if it was not a processing … Continue reading How to resolve Error: Report _ does not have a layout of type None →

Introduction We’ve all faced situations where we’ve had an operation take a long while which made the User wonder whether the system is stuck with something or is still processing. We can use simple dialogs which can enhance the User experience by showing User the progress of the operation. Some Business Central operations have out … Continue reading Using Dialogs to enhance User Experience in Business Central →

Inventory periods are used to keep track of when inventory adjusting entries are posted. Unless inventory periods are closed on a monthly basis, adjusting entries will post in the same period as the original transaction. Inventory adjustments will not be posted in that period if you create and close inventory periods. If the initial transaction … Continue reading How to Create Inventory Period in Business Central. →

If you find a mistake in a posted bank reconciliation, you can correct it using the Undo action on the Bank Acc. Statement page. Steps to undo a Bank reconciliation: 1. Go to ‘Bank Account’ from the global search icon. 2. Select the bank account for which you want to undo the statement. 3. Open … Continue reading Undo Bank Reconciliation in Business Central. →

CREATION OF ACCOUNTING PERIOD. Step1. Globally search “Accounting Period” and click on the related link. Step2. To create a new accounting period, select process and then click Create year. Step3. By default, system will have a starting date as per the last created accounting period. The no. of periods is 12 by default Period length … Continue reading Create Accounting period in Business Central. →

Introduction LS Central Scheduler Jobs are used for automatic background processing. These jobs use the NAS Service under the hood. We are going to see how to configure the NAS Service for LS Central. References https://help.lscentral.lsretail.com/Content/LS-Insight/Setup/LS-Central-In-Cloud-LS-Insight-In-Azure/3-Machine-Or-VM.htm Pre-requisites LS Central v16.4 – OnPrem Data Director Configuration Create a new Server Instance and name it appropriately.  Ensure … Continue reading Configuring NAS in LS Central for automating Data Director jobs →

Introduction: While using Business Central Web Services or APIs, we often use POSTMAN for testing the request and the responses. Today we’ll see how we can automate this testing to a certain extent using the inbuilt features of POSTMAN. We can have testing logic that runs before every request, after every request or logic that … Continue reading Using Automated Testing in POSTMAN for Business Central Web Services →

Introduction: In Business Central, we can use Task Scheduler to utilize background processing to ensure that Users do not have to wait for completion of long operations. Task Scheduler provides us an easy to use and monitor way to offload tasks from the main thread. It creates separate sessions for processing and it allows creating … Continue reading Using Task Scheduler in Business Central →

CUSTOMER POSTING GROUPS Customer Posting Groups determines the account receivables account.  1. In the search option, enter Customer Posting Groups and then choose related link. 2. In the Code Field, type unique identifier. 3. In the description field, type description of Customer posting group. 4. In each relevant account field, enter the G/L account  that … Continue reading Fields in Customer and Vendor Posting Groups in D365 Business Central →