A monumental event, part 2
I will show you a simple process that I have automated with the Azure Event Grid and Logic Apps, sending an invoice PDF to my webshop API. Since we have all these events inside Business Central, all we have to do is subscribe to an event in an extension and send it to the Azure Event Grid.
Choose your… Browser?
Use a custom browser to open when publishing extensions from VS Code and Reports ForNAV.
Two years of extension building. Part 3
What you need to get started with extension development. And some superfluous but satisfying superlatives about Harley Davidson
Using HTML inside ForNAV reports
In this blog post I discuss how to use HTML in a blob field to display formatted text in a ForNAV report.
Two more ways to break your extension
I realize I have been remiss in sharing with you my continued experiences with creating extensions for our Hybrid NAV 2018 database. This is mostly because I have been busy doing exactly that, building extensions. Mostly it goes very well. Sometimes it does not, usually because we mess something up. Recently we ran in to […]
Slaying the behemoth, Extension Design Principles
Fifteen minutes reading time. Once upon a time my ancestors roamed the icy plains of Northern Europe. They hunted behemoths, a single mammoth that could feed and clothe a tribe for a long while. But even though there was a lot of food on a single mammoth it was a bit of a pain to […]
On death and Dynamics NAV
I really cannot imagine how mourning can be managed. And that is precisely the problem I have with the term Change Management. It lacks the means to address our deep rooted fear of change that is ultimately fear of death.
Dimensions of woe
So today I wanted to create a simple text variable with 3 dimensions in my extension. Normally no big deal but how on earth do I define dimensions in my variables? It turns out they are now called Arrays. So that is an improvement but the documentation is worthless. And again, nothing to be found […]
Dimensions of woe
So today I wanted to create a simple text variable with 3 dimensions in my extension. Normally no big deal but how on earth do I define dimensions in my variables? It turns out they are now called Arrays. So that is an improvement but the documentation is worthless. And again, nothing to be found […]
Options and the agony of choice
Choice is agony. How do you discard a whole world of possibility and settle for a single option? The other hard thing about options is how to program the buggers in AL… After finding precisely zero results on Google (I’m sure there is something to be found, I just lack the patience to find it) […]
