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Mastering Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central - Second Edition

By : Stefano Demiliani, Duilio Tacconi
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Book Image

Mastering Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central - Second Edition

5 (3)
By: Stefano Demiliani, Duilio Tacconi

Overview of this book

This book dives straight into guiding you through the process of building real-world solutions with the AL language and Visual Studio Code. It emphasizes best practices and extensibility patterns to ensure your extensions are well-structured, maintainable, and meet the needs of modern businesses. You'll learn advanced AL techniques, report creation methods, debugging strategies, and how to leverage telemetries for monitoring. Additionally, it covers performance optimization practices and API integration to help you create efficient and interconnected solutions. With a focus on extension development, this new edition allows you to jump right into coding without spending time on setup processes. This book introduces new chapters covering essential tasks that Business Central developers frequently encounter, such as file handling and printing management. Finally, the book expands its scope by including chapters on various integration aspects, including VS Code extensions, GitHub DevOps, Azure services, and Power Platform integrations. We’ll wrap up by covering Copilot capabilities in Business Central and how you can create your own generative AI copilots. By mastering these concepts and techniques, you'll be well-equipped to create powerful and customized solutions that extend the capabilities of Dynamics 365 Business Central.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
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Index

Anatomy of the report object

Requests for new reports come from every department in client organizations and in many different forms. Most of the time, users have an idea in mind of how they would like the data to be shown.

Nevertheless, a report developer should always keep in mind some important points.

All the important points to keep in mind are related to data:

  • Retrieval: A good report developer should have a good understanding of the business process (how data is created, modified, and deleted) and data topology (where data is stored). Data can be retrieved from heterogeneous resources that cannot be directly stored in Dynamics 365 Business Central tables. As an example, you might want to run an HTTP call to a web service to gather some data outside the database and store it in a physical or temporary table before processing it.
  • Processing: Some of the data presented could be the result of data aggregation, calculated from different fields, or even from...