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AL Reports Don’t Have to Be Painful – 10 Tips & Tricks That Save Time (and Sanity)

AL Reports Don’t Have to Be Painful – 10 Tips & Tricks That Save Time (and Sanity)

If you’ve ever developed reports in AL, you know exactly what I mean. Reports are powerful. They are flexible. And sometimes… they are just painful 😄. Back in 2020, I wrote a blog post called “9 Tips for Developing Reports in AL”. A lot of those tips are still valid today — but what has…

Speed Up Your Business Central Development: Quick Startup Object Selection (launch.json)

Speed Up Your Business Central Development: Quick Startup Object Selection (launch.json)

As a Business Central developer, how many times a day do you manually edit launch.json just to change which page or report opens when you press F5? Maybe you don’t do it quite as often as me, but I have to admit sometimes I do feel like a stupid monkey always doing the same. If you’re testing…

How to Stop Fighting AL and RDL(C): Rename Report Columns Like a Pro

How to Stop Fighting AL and RDL(C): Rename Report Columns Like a Pro

If you’ve ever worked with AL report files, you know the pain: You rename a column (variable) in your AL file, and then you have to hunt through the RDLC file to update all the references, Field Name and DataField. It’s an ennerving activity, even a monkey could do it and you really should not have to waiste…