Exposing Object Metadata in Business Central Public Cloud
When developing with Business Central Public Cloud, it is not possible to access the Application Object Metadata table. This table contains some useful information, in particular the formulas/calculations for flow fields. It is possible to access this table with Business Central On-Premises, bu...
Edit in Excel cannot be used for adding new lines on Sales Price lists
After an investigation we were able to identify that enabling the Sales Price Experience in order to access the Price List pages in Business Central, we are able to use Edit in Excel functionality for Price Lists headers - creating a brand new Price List.
However, after the c...
Allow fieldgroup(Brick... to be extended on a page
The Brick type fieldgroup is used to display data as a Brick and is a table property and cannot be extended. If we want to use an existing table but want to use different fields in the Brick, there is no way for us to do this. Also sometimes the fields we want to show may be different depending o...
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A new platform event to handle File.DownloadFromStream()
We have apps that runs a lot of different logic from Base Application and other apps in the background, as scheduled tasks or via Web Services (API and/or OData). One scenario that we cannot handle today is when the File.DownloadFromStream() function is invoked, which results in an unhandled “...
Unnecesary Joining in FlowFields
If you have a database with let us say 1.5 Milion items in it and create a table extension on the Item table with a field "My Item Group" then, we have in a custom table a FlowField named "Number of Items" which count the number of items per "My Item Group" in a sample code similar to this: table...
Show Primary key position on Record tooltip
The Record tooltip is great, but primary key fields are only designed with an asterisk. This makes it impossible to figure out the primary key for tables like Job Planning Line and others where the key fields are the first ordered fields in the table. This information is vital to be able to writ...
Posibility to left, right, center align field values on a page
It would be nice to be able to override the default left/right alignment of field values - i.e. if you have a integer/decimal value that you would like to have left aligned on the page. Or a text/code you would like to have right aligned.
New Feature Namespaces instead of Objectname Prefix or Suffix
Instead of using prefixes and suffixes in object names limited to 30 characters anyway, it would probably be better to use namespaces as known from other professional programming languages.
Power Platform Integration with Business Central - Specifically virtual table limitations with Power Apps Portals
The current native integration between Business Central and Dataverse (which is still in preview) has a known limitation that Power App Portals are not supported with virtual tables.
When will this limitation be solved?
More database transaction control
Today, the only way to wrap transactional code in a "Try/Catch"-esque manner is by using "If codeunit.run() then" This has a couple of weird ancient quirks that result in a mix of worse performance, worse readability and more footguns for new AL developers. Problems: 1. You cannot have an acti...
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