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MB-820 Dynamics 365 Business Central Developer

Dynamics 365 Business Central can be extended precisely with AL – from individual codeunits to full extensions that integrate deeply into cloud and enterprise architectures.

Key topics

  • Developing and deploying AL extensions in Business Central.
  • Understanding the structure and application logic of Business Central.
  • Using web services, REST APIs and integration interfaces.
  • Connecting and using Power Platform and Azure services.
  • Automating tests, ensuring code quality and managing versions.

Prerequisite
A basic knowledge of software development and data structures is required. Experience with Microsoft technologies or ERP systems is a plus.

Target group
Suitable for developers, ERP specialists and technical professionals who customize, integrate and extend Business Central solutions.

Those who master Business Central programmatically create lasting extensions – lean, maintainable and seamlessly integrated into modern Microsoft architectures.

Course content
  • Create a Business Central account
  • Explore the demo database
  • Start a trial with your own company data
  • Extend the trial and manage company registration
  • Subscription types available for Business Central
  • Relationship management capabilities
  • Dynamics 365 Sales integration with Business Central
  • Supply chain management options
  • Purchasing cycle processing and management
  • Sales cycle processing and management
  • Sending documents to customers
  • Order management features
  • Service management capabilities
  • Manufacturing functions in Business Central
  • Human resources features in Business Central
  • Microsoft 365 experience for Business Central
  • Cloud architecture for Business Central
  • Building and adapting Business Central applications
  • Upgrade responsibilities and best practices
  • Update lifecycle considerations
  • Writing installation and upgrade codeunits
  • Transferring data between tables using DataTransfer
  • Managing applications and dependencies
  • Identifying and avoiding breaking changes
  • Frequently asked questions about updating Business Central apps
  • Getting started with the Cloud Solution Provider Program
  • Extending a customer's trial period
  • Accessing and using the administration center
  • Managing sandbox and production environments
  • Configuring tenant notifications
  • Reviewing environment telemetry and resolving issues
  • Exporting databases
  • Enabling and managing features
  • Monitoring and analyzing telemetry
  • Analyzing performance with the in-client performance profiler
  • Working with the Performance Toolkit extension
  • Configuring a BCPT suite
  • Automating management tasks with APIs
  • Adding and managing users
  • Creating user groups
  • Implementing permissions and permission sets
  • Configuring user access times and activity logging
  • Understanding users, profiles, and role centers
  • Performing user-specific setup
  • Reviewing and auditing changes
  • Getting started with Visual Studio Code
  • Installing the AL language extension
  • Exploring the logical database and its objects
  • Distinguishing between the base application and the system application
  • Creating a new Business Central extension in Visual Studio Code
  • Working with JSON configuration files
  • Configuring the AL language extension
  • Managing multiple AL extensions in a workspace
  • Debugging extensions with Visual Studio Code
  • Using Attach and Debug with attach configurations
  • Implementing snapshot debugging
  • Working with Rapid Application Development
  • Publishing and installing an extension
  • Configuring resource exposure policy settings
  • Setting up projects and workspaces
  • Using AL code actions
  • Working with the Business Central Performance Toolkit
  • Using database maintenance statistics
  • Getting started with pages
  • Identifying different page types
  • Configuring page properties
  • Building a page layout using controls
  • Linking pages with page parts
  • Using Visual Studio Code snippets to create pages
  • Defining different control types
  • Making pages searchable for users
  • Defining actions on pages and their properties
  • Adding report data elements and defining their properties
  • Adding columns to a report data set
  • Linking, arranging, and indenting data elements
  • Using a query to build a report data set
  • Creating a codeunit and calling it from other objects
  • Getting started with XMLports
  • Configuring XMLport properties
  • Defining nodes and their properties
  • Designing XMLports
  • Creating an XMLport using Visual Studio Code snippets
  • Using XMLports in AL code
  • Getting started with the permission concept
  • Creating permissions and permission sets
  • Overriding permissions with inherent permissions
  • Getting started with queries
  • Creating a query in Visual Studio Code
  • Connecting data sources in queries
  • Filtering data in queries
  • Aggregating and sorting data
  • Accessing queries from AL
  • Advanced query techniques
  • Applying the Business Central look and feel
  • Creating a control add-in
  • Handling asynchronous communication
  • Connecting control add-ins to Azure Functions
  • Making objects available in search
  • Creating page customizations
  • Setting up profiles in AL
  • Creating and using views in AL
  • Configuring application areas
  • Functional table types and their characteristics
  • Master tables, additional tables, and auxiliary tables
  • Ledger tables and register tables
  • Journal tables, document tables, and setup tables
  • Getting started with AL
  • Working with identifiers, syntax, and variables
  • Intrinsic data types
  • Options and enumerations
  • Working with collections
  • Assignments and type conversions
  • Defining expression types and operators
  • Preparing the application for optimal performance
  • Gaining insights into application behavior
  • Configuring Git
  • Comparing local and remote repositories
  • Creating a local Git repository
  • Using the .gitignore file
  • Adding and removing files in Git
  • Checking repository status
  • Working with remote repositories
  • Cloning and collaborating on remote repositories
  • Setting up an Azure DevOps organization
  • Managing projects and services in Azure DevOps
  • Working with personal access tokens
  • Integrating GitHub into the development workflow
  • Testing applications in Business Central
  • Installing and running the test toolkit
  • Running standard tests
  • Creating your own test codeunits
  • Business Central triggers in Power Automate
  • Creating a Power Automate flow from scratch
  • Customer, vendor, and item approval flows
  • General journal and document approval flows
  • Flows for different business scenarios
  • Button flows, scheduled flows, and troubleshooting
  • Using HTTP classes and their functions in AL
  • Retrieving data from and sending data to REST services
  • Working with JSON in Business Central
  • Reading JSON data from external REST services
  • Creating a basic Azure Function
  • Building and configuring a custom Azure Function
  • Using Azure Functions in Business Central
  • Differences between SOAP, OData, REST, and API
  • Web service authentication
  • Enabling and accessing OData web services
  • Working with OData return documents and query options
  • Creating and updating records with OData
  • Using SOAP web services and SOAP queries
  • Handling UI interaction with web services
  • Accessing the Business Central API
  • Tips and limits for working with APIs
  • Creating new APIs
  • Reading, creating, and updating records via API
  • API and OData bound actions

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