690

Increase Length of Application object Identifier to 50 Characters.

30 Characters has been for a long time the maximum length, however NAV/BC has evolved in many ways that now we often need to add Prefixes and/or Suffixes to objects Identifiers. I believe all community would clearly benefit with this suggestion, mainly because we have reached a point of no return...

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Category: Development (1425)

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
487

Property to set focus on specific Text box

In implementations where Barcode scanners are used (not necessarily the mobile one, but "keyboard" one) like POS, or where user needs quickly start typing the data, developer needs to be able to set focus on specific textbox. There are two parts of this: 1) Set active textbox after the page is op...

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Category: Development (1425)

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
452

Ability to downloaded a runtime package for a given version from AppSource

For CI/CD, testing, prerelease evaluation and a lot of other scenarios, it would be great to have an API to pull runtime packages from AppSource that match the version (artifact) of a Docker container.

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Category: Development (1425)

STATUS DETAILS
Under Review
384

HTML Editor Control Add-in

It would be nice if Business Central would provide a build-in HTML Editor Control Add-In, which could be used for Editing Rich Text like a detailed Item Description for a Online Shop or when Sending an Invoice via E-Mail with E-Mail Body to edited the body before sending. A few Open Source Edito...

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Category: Development (1425)

STATUS DETAILS
Under Review
Ideas Administrator

Thank you for your feedback. We thought we would release this earlier, but have now reverted status back to "Under Review" as we assess our use of such rich-text controls. We are still considering adding it to our (longer term) roadmap.

Your help is greatly appreciated, 
Mike Borg Cardona
Program Manager, Microsoft  
281

Improve overall translation / XLIFF experience

There are a lot of improvements to be made on the 'translation' experience to be on par with the translation experience in C/AL. These suggestions are not about external XLIFF editing tooling, but about the process inside VSCode. Here are some suggestions / feedback: - Moving around Labels (e.g...

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Category: Development (1425)

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
274

Custom Filename For Report Export

The option to export a custom report with a custom filename through code would be useful. Currently, when exporting a report, the filename is assumed from the report name. It is time-consuming to manually rename each exported file. If it were possible to build the filename through code, it woul...

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Category: Development (1425)

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
272

Standard Azure Blob Storage integration to save documents / attachments

Since the max. database size on Saas tenants is set by default to 80 Gb (unofficially it seems that 150 Gb is the actual limit), we were instructed to move away from storing documents / attachments as Blob files in the dabase. On several blogs, there are already some examples on how to integrate ...

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Category: Development (1425)

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
270

Improve Development Experience performance in VS Code

Working in VS Code on larger projects seems to eat a lot of CPU and Memory, even when following the recommended settings by Microsoft. We often find CPU reaching 100% and memory running over 10 Gb while opening AL projects and working with AL files, forcing us to reload / re-open VS Code frequent...

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Category: Development (1425)

STATUS DETAILS
Under Review
Ideas Administrator
Thank you for your feedback. We are continuously trying to optimize the VS Code performance when authoring and deploying AL extensions. The most significant impact is to limit working with large monolithic solutions, avoiding loading and compiling all objects in memory. This require componentization of the base application as well as custom solutions over the coming years. 

Your help is greatly appreciated,
Business Central Team
250

More modification possibilities for DropDown fieldgroup on Table

Can it be possible to have more modification possibilities for DropDown fieldgroup on Table, such as: * Move fields * Add fields in between existing ones (not just at the end) * Hide fields * Let us add fields that are hidden on the lookuppage, as defined in https://www.yammer.com/dynamicsnavdev...

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Category: Development (1425)

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Under Review
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 might consider it in the future.

Best regards,
Business Central Team
247

Dynamically change the CurrPage.Editable property at runtime

We would like to provide proper user experience to prevent modification of records in certain scenarios . Following the thread on Github, we are trying to allow certain users to change data based on a status and others not to (or all users not to change data after a certain status is achieved). ...

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Category: Development (1425)

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