A Shot of Business Central and A Beer | Episode 35
A Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central podcast | Episode 35 A Shot of Business Central and A Beer
Hey everyone! Ken and Michael back for Episode 35 of A Shot of Business Central and A Beer. The one and only podcast made to help users like you achieve Business Central greatness, and learn a little bit about beer in the process. Today we’ve got the latest Business Central news, we’ll be discussing the software’s default and mandatory fields logic and we’re taking a look at some apps that extend the functionality of these default and mandatory fields.
Podcast Segments
0:00 Podcast Opening
0:25 Intro and Beer Choice
7:17 Business Central News
23:11 2022 Release Wave 2 Feature Overview
1:15:03 1099 Toolkit App Review
1:21:44 Thank you for listening!
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A Shot of Business Central and A Beer Podcast Show Notes
This Episodes Alcohol Choice
Ken Rating: 90
Michael Rating: 80
Business Central News
· As usual, a bunch of hotfixes.
Feature Changes
Localization Updates
Partner Sandboxes
Feature is now available.
Licenses must be requested here.
2 Types of licenses
Partner Sandbox license
Must have a minimum of 5 licenses.
The license gives users access to a full production environment plus 3 sandbox environments.
Partner Premium Sandbox license includes all the Business Central premium features
User Groups and Forums
The “OG.”
Originally started with NAVUG.
Then, I thought, the forums switched to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Community.
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Community
Ran by Microsoft and thought took over the D365UG Forums
New kid on the block
Know for DynamicsCon
Business Central Fields
Different Pages have different fields
Editable fields will require you to type or choose a value.
Examples
Date picker
Dropdown
Switch or Checkbox
Asist Edit
To modify the field, you can click with your mouse or use the Tab key.
There are many keyboard shortcuts to help with data entry.
Use Quick Entry to input data quickly
You can switch to the next field by using the Tab key. With Quick Entry you can use the Enter key to navigate through only the fields you want.
Quick Entry can be customized by personalizing your workspace and telling Business Central with fields are to be included with Quick Entry or excluded from Quick Entry.
Business Central Mandatory fields: Fields marked with a red asterisk.
Each page will have different default mandatory fields.
Red asterisk does not mean that you cannot fill in other fields first or close the page. It means that you will not be able to complete a process without these fields being populated.
Examples of mandatory fields:
Name field
Address field
Description field
Mandatory Field Setup enables you to setup, that certain fields on records in a table must be specified but also gives you the possibility to setup an action based on a condition.
Pricing
Free
Setup
Simple Install and very well laid out User Guide.
Go to Assisted Setup page and click Setup Mandatory Fields
Example
On the Mandatory Fields Setup List I made the Home Page field required.
When I go to the customer card and change the language code from ENZ to ENU and then exit the page I get this error message because the home page field is blank:
I click Ok and assume the changes I made were not saved but they were saved.
Outro
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