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Boost Your Productivity with AL/BC – AL Variable Helper

Boost Your Productivity with AL/BC – AL Variable Helper

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This is the first post of the blog post series “Boost Your Productivity with AL and Business Central”. If you want to know more about what this series is about and why I created it, you can checkout this post. Today’s post will feature the AL Variable Helper by Rasmus Aaen. According to his own readme file, it provides the following features: Easy variable assignment Go to global/local variables – like in the C/SIDE environment. Sort Variables Fix keyword casing…

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Add Fields to a Word Report in Business Central

Add Fields to a Word Report in Business Central

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Well, how do I…where is the… alright, I will checkout a tutorial first. This was my reaction when someone asked me to add fields to a Word Report and I opened a Microsoft Word layout for the first time. What You Will Learn In this post you will learn how to add a field to an already existing standard report invoice in Visual Studio Code. My examples are done in a docker container with Business Central 15. Update 13.11.2020: The…

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Automatically Create Procedure Stub / AL Navigator

Automatically Create Procedure Stub / AL Navigator

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Last week I added a new feature to my Visual Studio Code Extension AL Navigator that makes it possible to create a procedure stub in AL. If you have not read my post about that extension yet, you can checkout this link. Here is the link to the newest extension on the VS Code Marketplace. What Does It Do? So what does this new feature do? It implements a functionality that I was strongly missing – detecting a procedure call…

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AL Navigator – My First VS Code Extension

AL Navigator – My First VS Code Extension

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Sometimes work can be frustrating. I sometimes get frustrated when I find out that there seems to be no quick way of doing things. When you develop reports with Visual Studio Code and AL, you often want to add columns in the dataset for a data item. Sometimes you also want to add code in the triggers. I noticed that there is no shortcut to jump through the data items of an .al report file. My new extension AL Navigator…

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