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Document Reports: One DataSet per Document

This suggestion comes from Claus Lundstrøm and I just like to preserve his idea. Many issues with RDLC Reports could be improved or be solved, if there would be one DataSet per Document in Document based Reports like Quote, Order Confirmation, Shipment, Invoice, Credit Memo etc. My Details why:...

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Category: Development (1136)

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Under Review
Ideas Administrator
Thank you for your feedback. We are considering adding it to our longer term roadmap.  

Your help is greatly appreciated,

Kennie Nybo Pontoppidan

PM, Microsoft 
84

Automatic unpublish and publish from VSCode

Working with extensions which have dependency on other extensions is currently not very easy. For example if we have a "main app" and a "test app", then in order to republish our main app, then we first have to unpublish the test app. Not only is there no way to do this from VSCode (except tha...

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Category: Development (1136)

STATUS DETAILS
Completed
Ideas Administrator
Thank you for your valuable feedback. We have decided to deliver this idea and make it available with Business Central 2019 release wave 2.  

Learn more about what's new and planned in the release plan here:

When working with projects in a workspace, the dependency graph will now be "walked" on deployment, and extensions uninstalled/reinstalled automatically. If the project you deploy is depending on other changed projects in the workspace, those will be deployed as well. You will have influence on this, i.e., there is support to just swap out a single extension as well (ignoring deploying changes in other projects/extensions). This allows you to roundtrip on e.g., test and product extensions.

Your help was greatly appreciated,  
Peter Borring
PM, Microsoft  


80

Ability to Execute Tests from Visual Studio Code

If we were able to run tests from Visual Studio Code (and from some command line application - like we can build using alc.exe) it would make a massive improvement to the efficiency of development (and probably the uptake in writing and running tests). This presupposes that you have the releva...

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Category: Development (1136)

STATUS DETAILS
Under Review
Ideas Administrator
Thank you for your feedback. We are considering adding it to our longer term roadmap.

Your help is greatly appreciated,
Business Central Team
78

Server side printing (Schedule A Report feature) to be allowed for SaaS deployment.

I believe it would be a great improvement if we enable server side printing (Schedule A Report feature) in a SaaS deployment, as this is currently a limitation of our product, and our partners have expressed their opinions for the implementation for this subject.

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Category: Development (1136)

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New
77

Allow Sorting Property on Lists

It would be very useful to be able to define if a specific column can be sorted or not. In case a list contains flowfields (e.g. Amount on Customer Ledger Entries), the user can choose to sort the list producing heavy workloads on the SQL server. An AllowSort property can solve the issue mainta...

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Category: Development (1136)

STATUS DETAILS
Under Review
Ideas Administrator
Thank you for your feedback. We are considering adding it to our longer term roadmap.


Your help is greatly appreciated,

Kennie Nybo Pontoppidan 

PM, Microsoft 
76

Show All Overloads of a Procedure in the IntelliSense (or indicator of multiple overloads)

If you have a procedure that has multiple overloads (so, for example, same procedure name but different parameters), then if you want to add a new statement somewhere else in your code calling one of these procedures utilizing the IntelliSense will always only show a single procedure and not all ...

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Category: Development (1136)

STATUS DETAILS
Completed
Ideas Administrator
This is already mostly supported, but with a different command (Ctrl+Shift+Space) for triggering parameter hints.

We are still lacking showing that overloads exist ("+x overload(s)") in signature help. We will track that in this

Your help is greatly appreciated,
Business Central Team
76

Extend AL workspace to cover launch information

VS Code workspaces can save lauch information. Yet this is not implemented for AL. So in order to retrieve symbols in a workspace or publish out of a workspace we are still required to put a launch.json in every extension in a workspace. This is a nuisance and in many scenarions actually not nee...

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Category: Development (1136)

STATUS DETAILS
Completed
Ideas Administrator
Thank you for your feedback. We have added this in minor update 2 for 2022 Release Wave 2. 

AL developers are now able to add a launch property to their code-workspace or settings.json file.
  • A workspace launch configuration overrides the launch configuration specified in the global settings.json file.
  • A local launch.json file overrides the workspace and global configuration. 
 In case that the local launch.json file doesn't contain a valid AL launch configuration, we'll try to find one in the code-workspace first, and then in the settings.json files. However, if the launch property is specified in the code-workspace file even without specifying a valid AL configuration, the global settings.json file will not be able to override it.

Your help is greatly appreciated,
Business Central Team
75

Implement a new TransactionInstance property for Codeunits (similar to SingleInstance)

Enabling the new property (TransactionInstance: Boolean) would mean that the codeunit works like a Single Instance codeunit for the duration of the current transaction. Once the transaction has committed or rolled back then the codeunit is cleared.


The reason for this is that...

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Category: Development (1136)

STATUS DETAILS
New
74

More Helpful Missing Index Page

Hello,


Since a few versions we have the Missing Indexes in Business Central as a page.

This may be helpful in the first place but on a working customer environment where you have no control over all the users you will get many indexes suggested which are completely unnec...

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Category: Development (1136)

STATUS DETAILS
Needs Votes
Ideas Administrator
Thank you for this suggestion! Currently this is not on our roadmap. We are tracking this idea and if it gathers more votes and comments we will consider it in the future. Best regards, Business Central Team
72

IntelliSense for actions Promoted Categories

It would be fantastic if I could see the caption of the promoted category instead of the current ones (Category4, Category5 ...). As by now, if I would like to add an action to the sales order and in the navigate promoted group, I have to open the source page, and count how many categories were ...

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Category: Development (1136)

STATUS DETAILS
Declined
Ideas Administrator
Thank you for your feedback. Given that 2022 release wave 2 introduces new support for working with promoted actions, which include action groups with names (and include code actions to convert from old to new format), then we are not going to invest more in the "old" ways of promoting actions, including the promoted categories (side-by-side support still retained).


Best regards,
Business Central Team