NAV Extensions - Extend a Table

tableextension 50100 ExtCus extends 18

{

fields

{

field(50100; LongName; Text[50])

{

Caption = 'Long Name';

}

}

}

Agile meetings

• Define Allowances and Consequence
• Allowed bad behaviour x times, then consequences
•  
• Adapt all the time
• Empower your team members
• Tell your story
• Always Try to achieve happiness. Believe that it is possible.
•  
• Weekly, generally Friday to recap the week
• Good News
• What did you achieve? 
• What worked?
• Bad News
• What got stuck/delayed/blocked?
• What didn't work?
• Next Steps
• Goals to achieve for the next week based on feedback
• Improve/Maintain the good
• Adjust,abandon, or try new approaches for the bad

NAV Object Ranges

https://community.dynamics.com/business/b/businesscentraldevitpro/archive/2018/10/17/which-object-ranges-can-we-use-with-microsoft-dynamics-365-business-central

SCRUM Basics and VSTS

• Capture requirements, build FDD
• Capture User stories
• [Role:]As a Purchasing Agent i need to 
• [Requirement:] see Total Sales from all Stores 
• [Reason:] to make better purchasing decisions
• Generate Requirements
• Discuss and agree on acceptance criteria
• Build test cases to identify all error handling points
• Generate Tasks
• Assign tasks to team members
• Team members Enter expected times for completion against each task
• Missed Tasks are added as new Requirements>Tasks and linked to the original requirement
• Every morning, 15 minute stand up meeting
• Each person will answer 3 questions
• What did you achieve?
• Task was Completed? Delayed? Blocked?
• Log entry created in activity log for all team members per day
• All completed work is reviewed and confirmed before status updated
• Task status/hours updated
• What do you expect to complete today? (Exit Criteria)
• Scrum master sends recap email to document and guide team members

NAV Extensions - NAV 2018+ and Dynamics 365 Business Central - How to make an extension

Dynamics 365 Business Central uses Extensions V2 (All previous versions must be upgraded to v2 to work on Business central)

Events

https://community.dynamics.com/nav/b/navision360/archive/2017/11/13/introduction-to-events-in-microsoft-dynamics-nav

Extensions

http://thinkaboutit.be/2018/11/how-do-i-develop-an-extension-in-business-central-on-premises/

https://community.dynamics.com/nav/b/katsonsnavblog/archive/2017/07/19/how-to-do-al-vs-code-for-beginners-start-of-video-series

• Download Business Central On-Premise from Partnersource
• https://mbs.microsoft.com/partnersource/northamerica/support/support-news/bconpremdownload
• Install Business Central On-Premise
• Import developer license
• Import-NAVServerLicense BC160 -LicenseData ([Byte[]]$(Get-Content -Path "fin.flf" -Encoding Byte))
• Enable Developer Service
• Business Central Administration>Development>Tick Enable Developer Service Endpoint
• Ensure windows user is setup as Super in Company
• Download and install Visual Studio Code
• https://code.visualstudio.com/
• Click Extensions (Last icon on the top left list, square icon)
• Search for AL
• Select AL Language>Install
• Restart VB Code
• View>Command Palette>AL:Go!
• Select Path to store solution
• Select Launch.json
• Change "name" from Your own server to server instance name ("BC130")
• Change "server" to true address path ("http://localhost:8080")
• Add "port" = 7049
• Authentication = "Windows"
• Enable download Symbols
• View>Command Palette> AL:Download Symbols
• Add TranlsationFile
• in app.json
• Change line "runtime": "2.3"
• to "runtime": "2.1"
• After this line,
• Add line
• ,"features": ["TranslationFile"]
• save
• Publish Extension to environment
• F5 or AL:Publish
• Resolve NetFx40_LegacySecurityPolicy error
• C:\Program Files\Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central\130\Service
• Edit Microsoft.Dynamics.Nav.Server.exe.config in notepad as administrator
• Find     <NetFx40_LegacySecurityPolicy enabled="true" />
• change to     <NetFx40_LegacySecurityPolicy enabled="false" />
• Restart nav service
• Web client opens with published extension
• If you try to publish again, you may get the error "cannot synchronize because a newer version is already synchronized"
• Run this in the admin shell to remove it completely even after uninstalling and unpublishing
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/developer/devenv-unpublish-and-uninstall-extension-v2
• Sync-NAVApp -ServerInstance BC130  -Name 'Hello World' -Mode Clean

Sample working launch.json

{

"version": "1.0.0.1",

"configurations": [

{

"type": "al",

"request": "launch",

"name": "BC130",

"server": "http://mypc:8080",

"serverInstance": "BC130",

"port": 7049,

"authentication": "Windows",

"startupObjectId": 22,

"startupObjectType": "Page",

"breakOnError": true

}

]

}

Windows - Control program startup order and timing

http://www.winpatrol.com/download.html

Barcode Fonts Code 128, Code 39

http://www.barcodelink.net/barcode-font.php

• Free 3 of 9
• Must use * before and after
• * + 12345 + *
• Example *12345* scans as 12345
• Ensure Bold, Italics, etc. are turned off
• For SSRS the formula looks like
• ="*"+Fields!Barcode.Value+"*"
• Code128
• Does not work without encoder