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New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 2: Use the Ternary Operator when Coding in the AL Language

Thursday 15th Aug 2024Thursday 15th Aug 2024 Ian Grieve3 minute read0 comment

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 2 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 2.

The 2nd of the new functionality in the Development section is use the ternary operator when coding in the AL language.

The ternary operator ? : known from other programming languages streamlines conditional operations in code, enhances readability and reduces verbosity. It’s particularly useful for simple conditions, promoting code clarity and intent-focused programming. By allowing variable initialization within the same line, it ensures proper assignment and minimizes code length. With this release, AL now also supports the ternary operator.

Enabled for: Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
Public Preview: Oct 2024
General Availability: Oct 2024

Feature Details

The ternary operator ? : can now be used to assign one of two values to a variable, depending on the condition of an expression.

Here’s an example of using if-then-else as until now and the new ternary operator.

Example of using ternary operator in AL to conditionally assign a variable value

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New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 2
Auto-Apply Templates When You Synchronize Data With Dataverse
Use New Reports And Demo Data for Financial Reporting
Manage Subscription Billing and Revenue and Expense Recognition
Integrate Field Service with Service Management
Archive Service Management Documents
View Item Availability in Field Service Work Orders
Export Posted Sales Invoices to Shopify
Replenish Items for Projects
Reconcile Payment Transactions in Shopify with Invoices
Use Directed Put-Away and Pick Warehouses with Projects
Capture Data from E-Docs with Azure AI Document Intelligence
Add Invoice and Receipt Documents to E-Documents in Bulk
Import, Export Product Info Using Shopify Metafields
Define Shipping Information For Shopify Shipping Fees
Enable Locations In Shopify Refunds
See Improved Usability For Service And Projects
Allow More Than One User To Post Warehouse Entries at a Time
Add An Item As A Shopify Variant
Use Excel Reports For Consolidation And Fixed Assets
Synchronize Product Translations To Shopify
Use Specific Prices And Discounts When Synchronizing Prices In Shopify
Add Extended Text To Project Planning Lines
Use A Default Quantity Of 1 For Accounts On Documents
Suggest Number Series with Copilot
Chat with Copilot and Learn to Use Installed Add-On Apps
Complete Bank Account Reconciliation Faster with Copilot
Create Product Information Faster with Copilot
Summarize Any Record with Copilot
Experience Enhancements to Analysis Assist with Copilot
Start Using Copilot Without Having to Set Things Up
Create Sales Lines Easily with Copilot
Automate Tests for Your Copilot Extensions with the Business Central Test Toolkit
Start Creating Power Automate Flows With Copilot
Raise Awareness Of Copilot Actions On Card, Document, And Listplus Pages
Display Errors And Messages In Copilot Prompt Dialogs
Experience Enhancements To Chat With Copilot
Get Usage Telemetry On Copilot Extensions As An ISV
Start Using Integration with IRS for 1099 Submissions
Start Using E-Documents Framework Localized for Germany
Enable Additional Countries and Regions
Show Features With Demo Dataset For Czechia
Deferral Accounting – Posting The Original Amount As Correction – Czechia
Posting Of Alternative Customer-Vendor Posting Groups – Czechia
Calculate And Post Vat Settlement By Activity Code – Italy
Advance Letters With Reverse Charge – Czechia
Vat Return Feature Now Available – Czechia
Include Employee Transactions In Exchange Rate Adjustment Report – Czechia
Improve Vat Reporting And Adjustments – Czechia
Allocations Functionality In Cash Desks – Czechia
Sales Advance From The Project – Czechia
Enable Use Of Other Currencies – Czechia
Set Up Easier In-Client Performance Profiling with Rules
Use the Ternary Operator when Coding in the AL Language
Pull Extension Source from GitHub when Opening Visual Studio Code from the Web Client
Use the 'This' Keyword for CodeUnit Self Reference
Restore Extensions if Publishing from Visual Studio Code Fails
Use Improved Features for Report Documents
Package Resources in Extensions and Access from AL
Run Code Action for 'With' for File, Project, or Workspace
Type Testing and Casting Operators for Interfaces
Extend Al Interfaces
Extend and Customize Profiles from Other Extensions
Remove Friction When Working With External App Dependencies
Specify And Use Full-Text Search Indexes On Table Fields
Manage Environment Updates More Flexibly
Migrate Record Links and Notes with Cloud Migration Tooling
Manage Per-Tenant Extensions in Admin Center
View App Compatibility with Future Versions in Admin Center
Get Notified About Issues with Job Queue Background Processing
Get List of Manageable Environments for Microsoft Entra Apps
Support IPv6 for Enhanced Security and Scalability
Encrypt Data At-Rest With Customer-Managed Encryption Key
Get External Notifications When Job Queue Entries Fail
Use E-Documents with Power Automate
Use Multiple VAT Numbers for a Customer
Achieve Sustainability Scorecards and Goals
Navigate the Sustainability Manager Role Center with Ease
Add Attachments When You Send Electronic Documents
Record Greenhouse Gas Emissions Using Purchase Invoices
Report Sustainability Entries with Financial Reports
Use New Service Providers in the E-Documents Framework
Purchase Carbon Credits
Enable Internal Carbon Fee Calculation in Sustainability
Track Sustainability Certificates For Items And Vendors
Use Multiple Subcategories For One Sustainability Account
Use Embedded Power Bi Reports Out Of The Box
Do Ad Hoc Analysis On Fixed Assets, Projects, And Services
Use Advanced Settings In The Power Bi Connector
Use Built-In Named Formulas In Excel Layouts
Access Keys with Key Tips In More Languages
Use Drag and Drop On File Upload Dialog to Attach Multiple Files
Resize Columns Even when Personalization isn't Enabled
Change The Data Search Method In Lists

New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 2: Set Up Easier In-Client Performance Profiling with Rules

Thursday 15th Aug 2024Thursday 15th Aug 2024 Ian Grieve4 minute read0 comment

The 1st of the new functionality in the Development section is set up easier in-client performance profiling with rules.

Three releases ago Microsoft launched the in-client profiler, a very powerful tool for investigating performance issues across extensions. Since then, profiling has become essential to identify application performance problems for customers, partners, and support, and it’s the main performance troubleshooting tool for partners.

However, due to its current nature of being an interactive capture, acquiring a performance profile requires well-defined repro steps and collaboration across stakeholders.

To make it easier and faster for customers, consultants, pro developers, partners and Microsoft support to capture a profile, and thereby lower manual collaboration and time-to-mitigate, this release will add the additional support for capturing performance profiles automatically and noninteractively in the background, based on well-defined rules triggering capture. Captured profile details can then be analyzed afterwards.

Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview: Oct 2024
General Availability: Oct 2024

Feature Details

In addition to the existing interactive way of capturing a performance profile – by starting the profile, performing repro steps in the client, stopping the profiler and then analyzing the results – a new rule-based scheduling mode for capturing profiles in the background is added.

With this, a customer admin, consultant, support person or developer can set up a specific scheduled rule, for example, to profile as a given user and session type for a given duration. Once the rule is defined and enabled, the server will trigger a profile each time the rule is met. At the end of the duration, profiling will stop, and the results can be inspected to see if there are any performance issues, including intermittent or long running ones.

To create a new profile rule schedule, open the Performance Profiler Schedules page. This lists the defined schedules, and the additional schedule details. From here, you can create a new schedule.

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In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (Power Automate Triggers), how do I… Create a Flow for an Approval

Thursday 15th Aug 2024Wednesday 17th Jul 2024 Ian Grieve4 minute read0 comment

This article is part of the In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (Power Automate Triggers), how do I… series, a sub-series of the In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (Power Automate), how do I… series and of the wider In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, how do I… series which I am posting as I familiarise myself with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.

There are a number of triggers available in Power Automate for Business Central which allow flows to be started. In this small series, I am going to take a look at creating a flow for each of the triggers.

The third trigger which is available is for approval requests. This isn’t actually a single trigger but one for each of the approval requests which are possible. These triggers allows users to submit a master record or transaction for approval.

The following approval request triggers are available:

Trigger	Description
When a customer approval is requested (V3)	Triggers a flow when a customer approval request occurs in Dynamics 365 Business Central.
When a general journal batch approval is requested (V3)	Triggers a flow when a general journal batch approval request occurs in Dynamics 365 Business Central.
When a general journal line approval is requested (V3)	Triggers a flow when a general journal line approval request occurs in Dynamics 365 Business Central.
When a purchase document approval is requested (V3)	Triggers a flow when a purchase document approval request occurs in Dynamics 365 Business Central.
When a sales document approval is requested (V3)	Triggers a flow when a sales document approval request occurs in Dynamics 365 Business Central.
When a vendor approval is requested (V3)	Triggers a flow when a vendor approval request occurs in Dynamics 365 Business Central.
When an item approval is requested (V3)	Triggers a flow when an item approval request occurs in Dynamics 365 Business Central.

This type of flow is created as an automated flow in the Power Automate portal; enter a Flow name and search for Business Central, scroll down the list of available triggers and select When a vendor approval is requested (V3). Click Create: