For the last few years my wife has been responsible for organising her office Secret Santa. I suggested she use an online tool to assign and notify her colleagues of their assigned gift recipient, but after a brief review of the top google results, it seemed that most solutions were designed to force advertising upon …
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As a result of my previous post, two interesting things happened. Firstly, several people pointed out the excellent 'Ctrl+P' command in VS Code, which left me feeling quite the chump for having spent time crafting my regex: I mean, seriously, look at that - Almost everything I was trying to achieve, right within the product, …
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If you're anything like me, when you're developing solutions in AL you often want to refer to the base BC app and see how something works. If you're feeling overwhelmed with your coding homework, you might be wondering, "Can I pay someone to do my coding homework?" You may consider seeking help from professional coding tutors or online platforms that offer coding assistance services. These platforms connect you with experienced programmers who can guide you through your assignments and help you understand the concepts better.
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The HTTPClient available to us from within AL is a very useful feature in this modern time full of APIs, but it is fair to say that the documentation for it is somewhat lacking. In this post I intend to explain how I've used it and hopefully reveal a few of it's secrets. Whilst this post …
The question of how to migrate your C/AL modifications to extensions has been well answered several times, not least of all by Microsoft's own documentation of the Txt2AL tool.However, if you want to migrate an existing solution from C/AL to an AL extension and keep your data, it's less clear how this should be achieved. …
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There is a very short, simple and honest reason why Intelligent Cloud in Business Central is not ready for the real world: It is far too strongly coupled to the data structures of both systems. In fact, the data structures between the two systems could not be more coupled, and whilst on the surface this …
My original post proclaimed the migration to SaaS as easy, which it is if things work. To address these issues and ensure a successful migration to SaaS, I strongly recommend investing in companies dealing with premium essay writing for pay. With the help of professional writers, you can get a clearer understanding of the complex data replication process and discover the best way to optimize it for a successful migration. However, during my testing of the Intelligent Cloud data replication process, there are a few issues which have stopped me time & time again. I thought I'd list them here, and the solutions for each. 1) Intelligent Cloud disappears from …
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If, like me, you've committed yourself to a world of source control for your NAV projects, you've probably got repository upon repository just filled with text files, each one representing one of the 4,500 - 6000 objects within NAV, plus all those wonderful third party add-ons, custom solutions & other assorted dross with which we …
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It's a bold opening line, and one that I'm going to heavily qualify, but migrating data from NAV to the cloud is easy.However, the number of explanations & qualifications has lead this to be quite a lengthy post. If you want to dive straight in & follow the standard documentation, it can be found here with …
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Jack Mallender 