Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Specialist Course with NAV experience

Objectives: At the end of the course the participant will be able to:

• Understand the differences between the Navision on-premise environment and the cloud environment
  
• Know the information integration techniques with Power BI and its activities in the Power BI Service (client) as well as manage roles
• Personalization components will be analyzed
• Study programming fundamentals and Business Central extensions
• Understand the structure of the language
  
• Create reports
• Understand CodeUnits, events and triggers

Unit 1: Differences between NAV and Business Central

• The subscription model and the cloud
• Deployment form
• Integration with Outlook, Word and Excel
• Configuration and integration with Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Sales
• Integration of tables and data model
• Business Central Power BI integration
• The user interface: using views
• The One Microsoft concept with Business Central
• Cortana and intelligent analysis

Unit 2: Analytics, reporting and integration with Power BI

• The Reporting Design Model
• RDL (Report Definition Language) reports
• Requirement page design
• Description of functions and triggers
• Design and organization of financial data with Power BI
• Creating data models
• Optimizing financial decision making with data obtained from Business Central with Power BI
• Using queries and sharing reports
• Creating measures and queries for Business Central data

Unit 3: Role Management and User Interface Design

• Analysis of the role page
• Creating a role center list
• Using objects
• Setting up help wizards
• Creating and sending notifications

Unit 4: Data Management Fundamentals

• File management
• Using the TempBlob Object
• XMLPort Definition
• Properties and triggers
• XMLPorts creation and design
• Design and creation of queries
• How to access queries from AL
• Add interactions

Unit 5: Development environments and Visual Studio Code

• Creating sandbox environments
• Integration with Docker and Cortana Intelligence for cash flow
• Language features
• The AL Language and .vsix extensions
• The Report Design Process Model
• Json configuration files, properties and triggers
• Analysis of table and field properties
• Using table relationships
• Management of calculated fields
• Understanding controls, page types, descriptions, and properties
• Learn actions with pages and with the role center
• Creating Tables and Pages extensions
• Analysis and management of Snippets
• Process-only reporting

Unit 6: Introduction to programming with AL language

• Identifiers, syntax and variables
• Intrinsic data types
• Arrays
• Lists
• Assignments
• Expressions
• Relational expressions
• Boolean expressions

Unit 7: AL Language Functions

• Interaction Features
• String functions
• Date functions
• Numerical functions
• Array Functions
• System functions
• Variable functions

Unit 8: CodeUnits, events and triggers

• CodeUnit Concepts
• Creating and accessing a CodeUnit
• Events
• Table and field triggers
• Page Triggers
• Control triggers and actions

Practices

Test applications in Business Central

Install and run Test Toolkit

Run standard tests

Create codeunits with a test application