Dynamics Business Central / NAV Developer Digest - Vol. 468
ArcherPoint’s Developer Digest focuses on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and Dynamics NAV development. This week’s volume includes useful Telemetry resources, setting up interfaces in Business Central, new capabilities for Excel Layouts, and using JSON tokens in Business Central.
The Dynamics 365 Business Central community comprises professionals devoted to advancing the success of their customers. Developers, project managers, and consultants collaborate to share helpful information across blogs, forums, and social media sites. From discovering new solutions to finding answers to complex issues, these dedicated individuals are constantly sharing their knowledge with others. At ArcherPoint, we recognize and appreciate this highly engaged community’s creativity, hard work, and collective intelligence. To ensure all users can benefit from their expertise, we want to share their wealth of information with everyone.
Useful Telemetry resources
Telemetry can be useful in a number of ways, from performance improvement to data analysis. Duilio Tacconi discusses some of his favorite uses for Telemetry. He demonstrates how it can be used to monitor the Count and Average Duration for long-running processes and how Azure Data Explorer checks how your User Interface is performing.
Read his blog, My (current) favorites Lego bricks in Telemetry, to learn more.
Setting up Interfaces in Business Central
Interfaces are an essential part of exchanging data between applications. Business Central interfaces extend Business Central’s functionality without events. Alberto Sobén, the Business Central Geek, explains what interfaces are in Business Central and how to create, set up, test, and use an interface. Read his blog, How To Use Interfaces In Business Central.
New capabilities for Excel Layouts
Starting in 2022, Business Central introduced Excel Layouts. Excel Layouts let you create reports based on Excel workbooks that can be used to summarize, analyze, and present data from Business Central. Microsoft is adding new capabilities to this feature that lets users create new system worksheets to retrieve context about the report and call Business Central APIs from within Power Query in Excel. Read Stefano Demiliani’s blog, Dynamics 365 Business Central: new additions in Excel Layouts reporting, to learn more.
Using JSON tokens in Business Central
JSON is frequently used in Business Central for exchanging information with other applications. Erik Hougaard shows how developers can use the SelectToken method to select a value from a complex JSON object. Watch Process JSON in AL like a Pro with Business Central.
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