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How to Copy Reports in AL the Smart Way

How to Copy Reports in AL the Smart Way

Copying Reports for Business Central in VS Code / AL can be a time consuming task. For example, if you want to extend the sales invoice “Standard Sales – Invoice” – 1306, you normally need to create a copy of this report first. For this it is necessary to copy the .al code of the file. In addition to that, the layouts either have to be downloaded from the web client or they have to be tediously searched in the…

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Most Useful Business Central Repositories & Apps

Most Useful Business Central Repositories & Apps

There are a lot of very useful repositories out there with useful apps and information for Business Central. Unfortunately, it is hard to keep track of all of them or to even know of the existence of these repositories. For this reason, I decided to create a repository with a readme file that contains many useful repositories…a bit like the developer version of what Steve Endow does with his list of information and resources. Feel free to contribute to this…

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Admin Toolbox for Business Central: Updates and New Features

Admin Toolbox for Business Central: Updates and New Features

In January, I introduced my Admin Toolbox for Business Central in this blog post. It has been built for OnPrem installations and offers the following functionalities: Record Deletion Tool Viewing of license information Import of licenses Not out of the box information for consultants NEW: Publish App In the meantime I have tested the Admin Toolbox for several customers. In the process, I noticed many more little things that I have improved. I also added new features to make it…

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Report Inspector 2.0 – How to Export Your Report Dataset as Excel, XML or Windows client Style

Report Inspector 2.0 – How to Export Your Report Dataset as Excel, XML or Windows client Style

Today’s post covers some programming that is not of my own making. My colleague Andreas Rascher has built a damn cool functionality that allows you to export the dataset of RDLC reports in different formats. Since we think the functionality is extremely useful, we didn’t want to keep it from you. You may remember the Mini Report Inspector by Steven Renders. With it it was possible to export the dataset of a report as XML. The Report Inspector by Andreas…

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The Ultimate Admin Toolbox for Business Central

The Ultimate Admin Toolbox for Business Central

As this is my first post this year, I want to start this out by wishing you all a great new year. Actually I wanted to write about a completely different topic, but Waldo’s post a few days ago gave me an idea. And I personally like this idea so much that I’m happy to be able to write about it in my first post of this year. In his blog post waldo has built a page to display the…

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