A Dynamics 365 Business Central developer develops apps that extend Business Central. This can include creating new modules and modifying existing modules. The developer can add new business logic or change existing business logic by using events. A developer also makes it possible to integrate Business Central with other applications, including Microsoft Power Platform products. Business Central developers are responsible for troubleshooting and debugging issues in the system. This may involve identifying the root cause of a problem, fixing bugs, and testing the solution to ensure it works as expected. Business Central developers may be required to optimize the performance of the system by identifying bottlenecks and improving code quality. Business Central developers are responsible for upgrading the system, migrating data, and maintaining the system to ensure it remains up to date and secure.
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Course Outline
1. Start your free Dynamics 365 Business Central trial
• Introduction – Create your own Business Central account
• Sign in to Business Central
• Use a demo database
• Start a trial with your own data
• Extend your trial and subscribe or unsubscribe your organization
2. Introduction to the capabilities of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
• Introduction to Business Central
• Identify available subscription types for Business Central
• Explore the relationship management functionality
• Use Dynamics 365 Sales with Business Central
• Discover supply chain management capabilities
• Process and administer the purchase cycle
• Process and administer the sales cycle
• Send documents to customers
• Explore how to administer projects
• Discover service management capabilities
• Business Central manufacturing capabilities
• Business Central Human Resources capabilities
• In Microsoft 365 experience for Business Central
3. Customize Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
• Introduction – Cloud architecture for Business Central
• Tailor, extend, and build applications
4. Introduction to application types in Business Central
• Understand the difference between connect and add-on applications
• Understand library and dependency applications
• Find development resources for building applications
• Learn how to properly set up code cop tools for app validation
5. Understand the process of bringing an app to AppSource in Business Central
• Get your accounts in place
• Understand the marketing validation requirements
• Understand the technical validation requirements
6. Consider application monetization responsibilities in Business Central
• Understand application monetization responsibilities
• Find application monetization documentation and examples
7. Implement SaaSification techniques in Business Central
• Build a first trial experience
• Implement SaaSification techniques when building your user interface
8. Prepare for an easy application upgrade experience in Business Central
• Understand upgrade responsibilities and best practices
• Consider the update lifecycle
• Create proper installation and upgrade codeunits
• Transfer data between tables using DataTransfer
• Manage apps
• Detect and avoid breaking changes
• Frequently asked questions about updating your Business Central App
9. Learn about application performance and monitoring in Business Central
• Prepare your application for optimal performance
• Get essential Application Insights
10. Implement test automation techniques in Business Central
• Understand test automation responsibilities
• Find test automation documentation and examples
• Use the in-client page scripting tool for acceptance testing
• Frequently asked questions about testing your Business Central App
11. Administer Dynamics 365 Business Central online
• Introduction – Get started with the Cloud Solution Provider program
• Extend a trial for a customer
• Access the administration center
• Manage sandbox and production environments
• Set up notifications
• Inspect environment telemetry and troubleshoot issues
• Export databases
• Enable features
• Describe and analyze telemetry
• Monitoring and analyzing telemetry
• Analyze performance using the In-client performance profiler
• Work with the Performance Toolkit extension
• Configure a BCPT suite
• Use APIs for automation and administration
12. Create new companies in Business Central
• Introduction – Create new companies with setup data
• Create new companies without data
• Create new companies with setup and demo data
• Set up a demo company with manufacturing data
• Create a configuration worksheet
• Create and use a configuration package
• Create a new company by copying data from an existing company
• Set up company information
13. Migrate data to Business Central
• Introduction – Data migration concepts
• Use the data migration assisted setup
• Work with data templates
• Import data from Excel
• Migrate data using the Copy data from company function in the configuration worksheet
• Create journal opening balances
• Import business data from other finance systems
• Set up a company with configuration tools
• Set up and sync master data across companies
14. Migrate on-premises data to Dynamics 365 Business Central
• End-to-end process of migrating data
• Run the Cloud Migration tool
• Address common questions and issues with migrations
• Describe cloud migration APIs
15. Manage users and implement security in Dynamics 365 Business Central
• Introduction – Add users
• Create security groups
• Implement permissions and permission sets
• Configure user access times and logging
• Understand users, profiles, and role centers
• Perform user-specific setup
• Auditing changes
16. Set up email in Dynamics 365 Business Central
• Set up email accounts
• Compose and send an email
• Send documents by email
• Document sending profiles
• Assign email scenarios
• Send a sales document by email
• Check your sent emails
• Check your email outbox
17. Integrate Dynamics 365 Business Central with Outlook
• Set up email logging
• Set up Outlook integration
• Use the Contact insights Outlook add-in
• Creating invoices from your meeting appointments
• Do a quick document lookup
18. Integrate Dynamics 365 Business Central with Teams
• Manage, install, and use the Business Central App for Teams
• Extend Teams cards
• Create Business Central tabs for Teams
• Get relevant session and environment details for Teams integration
19. Create workflows in Dynamics 365 Business Central
• Create a workflow manually
• Create a workflow from workflow templates
• Create a Power Automate flow
• Set up users
• Set up notifications
• Set up approval workflows by using Assisted Setup
20. Use approval workflows in Dynamics 365 Business Central
• Request approval of a record
• Cancel a request for approval
• Approve or reject a request for approval
• Delegate a request for approval
• Manage overdue approval requests
21. Introduction to the development environment for Dynamics 365 Business Central
• Get started with Visual Studio Code
• Install the AL language extension in Visual Studio Code
• Discover the logical database and its objects
• Differentiate the base app and the system app
• Create a new Business Central extension in Visual Studio Code
• Work with JSON configuration files
• Configure the AL language extension
• Manage multiple AL extensions in one workspace
• Segment AL code and reduce naming conflicts with namespaces
• Open Visual Studio Code from the web client
22. Work with tables in Dynamics 365 Business Central
• Get started with tables
• Identify the different table types
• Configure the different table properties
• Define fields and their properties
• Link different tables with table relations
• Create primary and secondary keys on a table
• Work with DropDown and Brick field groups
• Enable optimized text search on table fields
• Create and use calculated fields
• Create a table in Visual Studio Code with snippets
23. Extend and modify an existing table in Dynamics 365 Business Central
• Get started with table extensions
• Compare table extension properties with table properties
• Add a new FieldGroup to an existing table
• Define extension objects in same app as their base object
24. Work with pages in Dynamics 365 Business Central
• Get started with pages
• Identify different page types
• Configure the different page properties
• Build a page layout by using controls
• Link pages with page parts
• Use snippets in Visual Studio Code to create pages
• Set different control properties
• Use the built-in rich text editor to enter data
• Scan barcodes in the mobile app
• Enable users to search for a page
• Define actions on a page and its properties
• Add existing hidden fields to pages
25. Extend and modify an existing page in Dynamics 365 Business Central
• Get started with page extensions
• Compare page extension properties with page properties
• Personalize pages
26. Work with entitlements and permission sets in Dynamics 365 Business Central
• Get started with entitlements and permissions
• Create entitlements and permission sets
• Override with inherent permissions
27. Introduction to integrating Dataverse with Dynamics 365 Business Central
• Create an environment
• Start with Dataverse
• Extend Dataverse
• Base Integration Solution
28. Debug and deploy your extension in Dynamics 365 Business Central
• Debug your extension with Visual Studio Code
• Recovery from publishing
• Use attach and debug with attach configurations
• Implement snapshot debugging
• Work with Rapid Application Development
• Publish and install an extension
• Set Resource Exposure Policy settings
• Protect sensitive values
• Configure projects and workspaces
• Use AL code actions
• Generate help with the ALDoc tool
• Work with the Business Central Performance Toolkit
• Use Database Wait Statistics
29. Introduction to report components in Dynamics 365 Business Central
• Report descriptions
• Report properties and triggers
• Data items and columns
• Request page
• Work with report labels
• Report layouts
30. Use the report design process in Dynamics 365 Business Central
• Report design process
• Use a snippet to create a report object
31. Design the data model of a report in Dynamics 365 Business Central
• Create report data items and their properties
• Add columns to a report dataset
• Link, order, and indent data items
• Use a query to create a report dataset
32. Add a layout to a report in Dynamics 365 Business Central
• Add an RDLC layout to a report
• Add a Word layout to a report
• Use the Word add-in for report layouts
• Add an Excel layout to a report
33. Complete the report request page in Dynamics 365 Business Central
• Design the request page
• Design the request options page
34. Add reports to Tell Me and substitute a report in Dynamics 365 Business Central
• Add reports to Tell Me
• Substitute a report
35. Use report triggers, functions, and processing-only reports in Dynamics 365 Business Central
• Report trigger implementation flow
• Use report functions
• Create a processing-only report
• Adding barcodes to a report
36. Implement multilingual reports in Dynamics 365 Business Central
• Create a report in the language of the user
• Create a report in the language of the recipient
• Define regional settings in reports
37. Work with reports in Dynamics 365 Business Central
• Preview and run reports
• Set the layout used by a report
• Set up printers
38. Analyze list data using data analysis mode in Business Central
• Prerequisites and getting started
• Work with data analysis mode
• Date and pivot mode
• Share data analysis
39. Extend reports in Dynamics 365 Business Central
• Anatomy of a report extension
• Examples of report extensions
40. Introduction to the basics of AL programming in Dynamics 365 Business Central
• Get started with application language
• Work with identifiers, syntax, and variables
• Discover intrinsic data types
• Options and enums
• Work with collections
• Use assignments and type conversions
• Define different expression types
41. Learn the AL statements in Dynamics 365 Business Central
• Work with comment and compound statements
• Work with conditional statements
• Use repetitive statements
42. Work with AL built-in functions in Dynamics 365 Business Central
• Interaction methods
• String functions
• Date functions
• Numeric functions
• Array functions
• List functions
• System functions
• Variable functions
43. Handle errors by using application language in Dynamics 365 Business Central
• Handle errors by using try methods
• Collect errors
• Progress windows and the message, error, and confirm methods
44. Create custom procedures in Dynamics 365 Business Central
• Custom procedures
• Identify differences between local and global procedures
• Identify differences between local and global variables
• Pass parameters into a procedure
• Identify differences between a parameter by value and by reference
45. Work with codeunits in Dynamics 365 Business Central
• Create and access a codeunit
• Use keywords for codeunit self-reference
46. Use events and triggers in Dynamics 365 Business Central
• Identify different table and field triggers
• Identify different page, control, and action triggers
• Event-based architecture
• Publish and subscribe to events
47. Implement interfaces in Dynamics 365 Business Central
• Snippet support
• Understand type testing and casting operators for interfaces
• Importance of interfaces
• Extending interfaces in AL
48. Manipulate data by using code in Dynamics 365 Business Central
• Retrieve data from the database with AL statements
• Sort and filter data in code
• Add, modify, or delete data with AL
• Use different field functions in AL
• Control database locking behavior
49. Manage multilanguage development in Dynamics 365 Business Central
• Create and use translation files
• Use Azure Translator to automate translation
50. Introduction to the basics of file management in Dynamics 365 Business Central
• Work with the File object
• Work with the Temp Blob object
• Read and write files by using streaming in Business Central
• Handle multiple file uploads and file drop zones
51. Work with XMLports in Dynamics 365 Business Central
• Get started with XMLports
• Configure different XMLport properties
• Define nodes and their properties
• Design XMLports
• Create an XMLport by using snippets in Visual Studio Code
• Use XMLports in AL code
52. Work with queries in Dynamics 365 Business Central
• Get started with queries
• Create a query in Visual Studio Code
• Join data in queries
• Filter data in queries
• Aggregate and sort data in a query
• Access queries from AL
• Advanced query concepts
• Optimize performance in Query objects
53. Work with web services in Dynamics 365 Business Central
• Define differences between SOAP, OData, REST, and API
• Web service authentication
• Enable access to OData web services
• Work with different OData return documents
• Request records with OData
• Work with OData query options
• Create new records with OData
• Update records with OData
• Use SOAP web services
• Request records with SOAP
• Handle UI interaction when working with web services
54. Work with the API in Dynamics 365 Business Central
• Access Business Central API
• Tips for working with APIs
• Work with API limits
• Create new APIs
• Read, create, and update by using API
• API and OData bound actions
55. Access REST services from within Dynamics 365 Business Central
• Use the different HTTP classes and their functions
• Get data from and send data to an external REST service
• Use and read JSON in Business Central
• Get JSON data from external REST services
56. Use Azure Functions with Dynamics 365 Business Central
• Create basic Azure functions
• Create an Azure function
• Use an Azure function in Business Central
57. Build control add-in objects in Dynamics 365 Business Central
• Apply the Business Central look and feel
• Build a control add-in for Business Central
• Asynchronous considerations for control add-ins
• Connect control add-ins with Azure Functions
58. Use AL-controlled barcode scanning in Dynamics 365 Business Central
• Supported scenarios and barcodes
• Add a barcode-scanning UI button on a field
• Invoke barcode scanning programmatically from AL
• Integrate dedicated barcode scanners
59. Set up onboarding experiences in Dynamics 365 Business Central
• Greet new users with the welcome banner
• Get users started with the checklist
• Implement teaching tips and in-app tours
60. Develop a Role Center in Dynamics 365 Business Central
• Create a Role Center page
• Create activity page parts
• Integrate with the Cue Setup
• Create Role Center lists
• Implement headline parts
61. Build an Assisted Setup in Dynamics 365 Business Central
• Use Assisted Setup
• Create a wizard page
• Integrate with Assisted Setup in your extension
62. Send notifications in Dynamics 365 Business Central
• Work with notifications
• Create and send notifications
63. Customize the UI experience in Dynamics 365 Business Central
• Add objects to search
• Create page customizations
• Create profiles in application language
• Extend and customize profiles
• Use and create views in application language
• Extend application areas
64. Identify functional table types and characteristics in Dynamics 365 Business Central
• Define the different functional table types and characteristics
• Create master tables
• Create supplemental tables
• Create subsidiary tables
• Create ledger tables
• Create register tables
• Create journal tables
• Create document tables
• Create setup tables
65. Implement the data process model in Dynamics 365 Business Central
• Work with the standard data model
• Use typical data triggers
• Adopt the standard data flow
66. Work with master data in Dynamics 365 Business Central
• Use the setup table and Singleton Design Pattern
• Use master table and page standards
• Implement the number series pattern
• Use the Blocked field and the Blocked Entity Design Pattern
• Implement frequently used table properties
67. Use document standards in Dynamics 365 Business Central
• Create a document page
• Use the InitRecord function
• Use the TestField function
• Use the Round function
68. Use Application Lifecycle Management for Business Central
• Create an Azure DevOps organization
• Manage Azure DevOps Projects
• Introduction to Azure DevOps Services
• Connect to Azure DevOps via Personal Access Tokens
• Introduction to GitHub
69. Work with source control using Git in Visual Studio Code for Business Central
• Configure Git
• Compare and contrast local and remote repositories
• Create a local Git repository
• Use the .gitignore file
• Add and remove files in Git
• Get the status of your Git repository
• Use a remote Git repository
• Clone a remote Git repository
• Work with a remote Git Repository
70. Use branching and merging with Git for Business Central
• Branch commands in Git
• Use Rebase in Git
• Set branch policies in Azure DevOps
• Use pull requests in Git with Azure DevOps
• Work with different branching strategies
71. Use Docker in your Business Central development process
• Work with Docker images and containers
• Install Docker on Windows
• Process Isolation vs. Hyper-V Isolation
• Basic Docker commands
• Use the BcContainerHelper
72. Introduction to test automation in Business Central
• Test applications in Business Central
• Install and run the Test Toolkit
• Run the standard tests
• Create your own test codeunits with a test app
Course Details
• Get started with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central: none.
• Familiarity with the AL programming language used with Business Central; previous development experience developing app solutions; appropriate development licenses and agreements to develop apps is helpful.
• Basic understanding of Business Central, Microsoft 365, and Outlook; administrator rights in Business Central and Microsoft 365.
• Basic Dynamics 365 Business Central knowledge; understanding and knowledge of how to set up a Business Central Cloud Sandbox; basic understanding of a relational database and the usage of tables to store product data.
• Knowledge of how to set up a Business Central cloud sandbox; a basic understanding of AL programming language.
• Knowledge of how to create a new AL Extension project; basic knowledge of Dynamics 365 Business Central and how it works; previous developer experience using AL or another programming language is helpful.
• Some understanding of development processes and languages.
• Basic understanding of the AL programming language; experience with other programming languages; basic knowledge of Business Central functionality.
• Basic understanding of the AL programming language and functions.
• A Microsoft account or an Organizational account; a Git account, and knowledge of commonly used Git commands; basic understanding of how to use Git Repositories.
• Basic understanding of Dynamics 365 Business Central and web services; knowledge of the basic architecture of Business Central; experience with Power Apps and Power Automate.
Candidates for this course are Developers, Software engineers, Architects, Technical advisors, Technical consultants, User Experience leads or have a combination of these skills. Business Central is our fastest growing app with the largest number of solutions published to AppSource. It is however a complex solution, and it requires deep domain and technical expertise for implementation.
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