Problem Statement:  We have a requirement where the client wants a part of String from Sales Order No. which is Code(Data type) and it is auto-generated from Number Series. The Sales Order No. value is “SO/123/789/456”. The required Sub-string was: 123<Space>789. Pre-requisites: VS Code AL Language Extension Microsoft Dynamics NAV /  Business Central Solution: As per the requirement, we need to first retrieve Sub-strings “123” and “789” and this can be achieved using SELECTSTR( ) function. But SELECTSTR() only retrieves a Sub-string from a comma-separated String. And the Sales Order No. string is a slash-separated string. So firstly we need to convert this string to comma-separated string, which is achieved in the below-presented screen. CONVERTSTR(String, From Characters, To Characters)   In the above Screen, “SalesOrder No.” is initialized in a text variable “SoNumber” and then is converted to a comma-separated string. The code is: CONVERTSTR( String: Text, FromCharacters: Text, ToCharacters: Text ) Now comes the part where we retrieve Substring from this converted String using SELECTSTR( ) function as the string is now converted into a comma-separated string, below screen shows how it is done. SELECTSTR(Number/Position, Comma-Separated String)   As you can see in the above screen how SELECTSTR() function is used to retrieve substring on the 3rd and 4th position of the String and stored in text variables “No1” and “No2” respectively. And these variables are then initialized to another variable with space. The code is: SELECTSTR(Position, Commastring); In the above example the code is: SELECTSTR(3, Separatenumber); SELECTSTR(4, Separatenumber);     Conclusion:  We can retrieve a comma-separated string or any other character-separated string using CONVERTSTR() and SELECTSTR() functions. Hope this helps!  

Introduction: In this blog, I will be attempting to provide information about the new Application Lifecycle Management features of Business Central Wave 2. Pre-requisites: Microsoft Dynamics Business Central Wave 2. Demonstration: 1.Report Production Outages in Administration Center.   Suppose there occurs a case where the user is having issues on Production Environment, in order to get help on such issues, the user can report such cases to Microsoft, this is achieved by visiting Admin Centre >> Environments >> and then click “Report Production Outage” as shown below.   After that fill in the details as shown below, i.e. Outage type, Name, Email address, Contact Number and on the next page fill in the details of errors and the time and date of Outage occurrence as shown below. When the user reports the Outage, a message is displayed with the ticket Number. Then the reported outage is displayed on the Reported Outages Menu as shown below: And the user gets an Email regarding the outage. 2. Multiple production environments New Business Central Wave 2 brings a new feature where users can have multiple Production Environments for different localizations. After creating multiple Productions when the user visits “home.dynamics.com”, the user is asked for which Production Environment he wants to visit as shown below.   3. Detailed Notification for Update Events The following image shows a detailed notification mail for the update events of Tenant. Hope this helps!

1. Saving and personalizing list views. Suppose we want to switch between pages and we want to add filters, so to achieve this we have to add filters every time we come back to that page, this feature was not available in the previous version of Business Central but now it has been added by the developers. We can save a combination of filters as our view and access it again and again.   2. Personalize actions and navigation on your Home page With the Business Central Wave 2 Release users can easily add their desired pages to their Role centers, making these pages easily accessible to the user. 3. Design for Extensibility. Users can adjust actions and action groups on their Role Center. Adjust the navigation menu items and grouping on a Role Center. Customize user profiles by designing page changes that will apply only to a specific profile in your extension.

1. Lock-free number series (Allow gaps in Number Series). Users can choose to mark number series to allow gaps in the series. These number series will be non-blocking, which will boost performance. Add notes and links to data Users can quickly add a note to the data they are currently viewing on the Business Central, these notes can be used if a user needs to add some note to the specific page. 3. Customize a user profile without writing code. (New fields have been added, Caption, Description, Use as Default Profile, Promoted). Users need not have to write code to change a user profile, instead, they can make changes to a user profile from Profile only.

1.Power-full filtering of Reports When running reports on Business Central, Users see a request page where they can add filters, this addition of filters was achieved by customization and coding. With the new Business Central Wave 2 Release users do not have to worry about customizing from the back end. Business Central Wave 2 comes up with hassle-free filtering of reports which is achieved before the report is run. Thus making it more efficient to use. The snapshot shown below is an example of previous report filters. This is how the business central wave has added filters. You just have to click the filters button and you can have multiple combinations of simple and complex filters. 2. Resize columns with fewer clicks. Columns play a major role in Business Central because the data to be displayed is dependent on how much visible that particular column is, In the earlier version of business central it was not possible to increase the width of a column to be displayed. With the new Business Central Wave 2 release, the developers have made it convenient for the users to increase the size of columns just with a single click and mouse drag.   Below is the snapshot of the previous Business Central. This picture shows how the column “Contact” has been increased. Hope this helps!