David Roys
@davidroys.bsky.social
MS Dynamics 365 Business Central programmer. Dog lover, guitarist, drummer, Apple fan.
TIL using Ctrl+Spacebar on an image property a second time will toggle the preview on and off (there you go saved you a click through by writing a good summary :-) #MSDyn365BC #ProgrammingTip
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AL Image Property Lookup Tip
TIL (which ironically I only looked up the other day to discover it means "Today I Learned") that when you are trying to select an image for an action in AL code you can use Ctrl+Spacebar to toggle th...
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November 15, 2025 at 7:17 PM
TIL using Ctrl+Spacebar on an image property a second time will toggle the preview on and off (there you go saved you a click through by writing a good summary :-) #MSDyn365BC #ProgrammingTip
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#TVShows Just finished watching the second season of Patriot on Prime. What an amazing show. I heard about it from @snell.zone who called it “Sad Spies”. I loved this show. Reminded me of Wes Anderson movies. Highly recommend.
September 10, 2025 at 8:34 AM
#TVShows Just finished watching the second season of Patriot on Prime. What an amazing show. I heard about it from @snell.zone who called it “Sad Spies”. I loved this show. Reminded me of Wes Anderson movies. Highly recommend.
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This powerful message: “I did the research and found out I was wrong.”
I’m not going to say much more except please take the time to watch. Then send it around to family and friends, no matter their political persuasion.
Part I
I’m not going to say much more except please take the time to watch. Then send it around to family and friends, no matter their political persuasion.
Part I
July 12, 2025 at 3:42 PM
This powerful message: “I did the research and found out I was wrong.”
I’m not going to say much more except please take the time to watch. Then send it around to family and friends, no matter their political persuasion.
Part I
I’m not going to say much more except please take the time to watch. Then send it around to family and friends, no matter their political persuasion.
Part I
Soundslice builds a feature after ChatGPT keeps telling users it exists when it didn’t. www.holovaty.com/writing/chat.... This made me think of all the times I’ve been asked about features of #msdyn365bc that don’t exist - that AI made up.
Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists | Holovaty.com
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July 9, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Soundslice builds a feature after ChatGPT keeps telling users it exists when it didn’t. www.holovaty.com/writing/chat.... This made me think of all the times I’ve been asked about features of #msdyn365bc that don’t exist - that AI made up.
@matnav.co.uk Hi Matthew, have you seen the post about the feed provider for Business Central shutting down?
June 30, 2025 at 6:10 PM
@matnav.co.uk Hi Matthew, have you seen the post about the feed provider for Business Central shutting down?
Please upvote this suggestion if you agree it would make BC better experience.dynamics.com/ideas/idea/?...
In short, make Azure File and Blob services work with files larger than 155MB.
#MSDyn365BC #bcideas
In short, make Azure File and Blob services work with files larger than 155MB.
#MSDyn365BC #bcideas
Microsoft Idea
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June 30, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Please upvote this suggestion if you agree it would make BC better experience.dynamics.com/ideas/idea/?...
In short, make Azure File and Blob services work with files larger than 155MB.
#MSDyn365BC #bcideas
In short, make Azure File and Blob services work with files larger than 155MB.
#MSDyn365BC #bcideas
#MSDyn365BC support for CU WS published as SOAP ending for BC SaaS Oct 25 right? Docs for conversion to ODataV4 is terrible. So far I found var parameters and XMLport parameters not supported. Any other gotchas people know about?
April 2, 2025 at 6:25 PM
#MSDyn365BC support for CU WS published as SOAP ending for BC SaaS Oct 25 right? Docs for conversion to ODataV4 is terrible. So far I found var parameters and XMLport parameters not supported. Any other gotchas people know about?
Gotta love Carrot Weather app on iPhone. Today’s mission? Find the Gulf of Mexico.
March 18, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Gotta love Carrot Weather app on iPhone. Today’s mission? Find the Gulf of Mexico.
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George Carlin made this point about 20 years ago.
February 5, 2025 at 7:00 AM
George Carlin made this point about 20 years ago.
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Descaled my coffee maker and now my coffee tastes worse? Descaling is a myth paid for by Big Vinegar.
February 3, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Descaled my coffee maker and now my coffee tastes worse? Descaling is a myth paid for by Big Vinegar.
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Now let’s have the media all over this for weeks like they have with other prominent political figures who didn’t do anything half as bad as this. And if they don’t? Then we are really in trouble, NZ.
Now let’s have the media all over this for weeks like they have with other prominent political figures who didn’t do anything half as bad as this. And if they don’t? Then we are really in trouble, NZ.
Former ACT Party president named for sexually abusing boys
Former ACT Party president Tim Jago can now be named as the political figure who plied boys with alcohol and sexually abused them in the 1990s.
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January 31, 2025 at 5:38 AM
www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3605...
Now let’s have the media all over this for weeks like they have with other prominent political figures who didn’t do anything half as bad as this. And if they don’t? Then we are really in trouble, NZ.
Now let’s have the media all over this for weeks like they have with other prominent political figures who didn’t do anything half as bad as this. And if they don’t? Then we are really in trouble, NZ.
@gruber.foo reading daringfireball.net/2025/01/one_... using NetNewsWire mobile app I noticed hyperlinks in footnotes (using Bigfoot style pop up) renders the hyperlink as white text on white background. Not sure if this issue is yours but thought I would let you know. Example screenshot attached.
January 14, 2025 at 7:37 PM
@gruber.foo reading daringfireball.net/2025/01/one_... using NetNewsWire mobile app I noticed hyperlinks in footnotes (using Bigfoot style pop up) renders the hyperlink as white text on white background. Not sure if this issue is yours but thought I would let you know. Example screenshot attached.
#ALHelp When defining an enum, if I want the first (default) option to appear empty, is the only way to have a single space like we used to do with Options? I wanted to have an empty string ("") but this shows on pages as "0".
January 5, 2025 at 3:24 AM
#ALHelp When defining an enum, if I want the first (default) option to appear empty, is the only way to have a single space like we used to do with Options? I wanted to have an empty string ("") but this shows on pages as "0".
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Okay, who made this? 😂😂
January 2, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Okay, who made this? 😂😂
I tried to post my thoughts on using GitHub Copilot for #msdyn365bc development but hit LinkedIn word limit. So I made a blog (it’s been a while since I last wrote a blog post!)
www.bcapps.co/blog/2024-12...
www.bcapps.co/blog/2024-12...
blog-Free GitHub Copilot
My take on GitHub Copilot for Business Central AL development had previously been that it was not as useful as it might be for more common languages (such as JavaScript, where I considered it to have
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December 30, 2024 at 8:59 PM
I tried to post my thoughts on using GitHub Copilot for #msdyn365bc development but hit LinkedIn word limit. So I made a blog (it’s been a while since I last wrote a blog post!)
www.bcapps.co/blog/2024-12...
www.bcapps.co/blog/2024-12...
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How many Happy Meals do you need to eat before they start to work? I've just had six and I feel terrible.
December 21, 2024 at 12:02 PM
How many Happy Meals do you need to eat before they start to work? I've just had six and I feel terrible.
#bcalhelp I have a lot of APIs that return JSON payload that I want to store in tables. Should I write a generic mapping parser that maps JPath to tableno/fieldid or code the mapping in dedicated routines? Any thoughts?
December 17, 2024 at 6:01 PM
#bcalhelp I have a lot of APIs that return JSON payload that I want to store in tables. Should I write a generic mapping parser that maps JPath to tableno/fieldid or code the mapping in dedicated routines? Any thoughts?
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People hate health insurance companies with a passion. They’re not laughing because someone died—they’re laughing because the system that crushed them finally took a hit.
Thou Shalt Not Deny People Health Insurance
Capitalism and healthcare do not mix.
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December 5, 2024 at 7:07 PM
People hate health insurance companies with a passion. They’re not laughing because someone died—they’re laughing because the system that crushed them finally took a hit.
#bcalhelp. I created a new field on Item and field of same name on Sales line. In an event fired from Sales Line No. field on validate I copy the value from Item to Sales Line (have tried many diff. events). Debug shows field is there. Then sales invoice subpage does Find(Which) and value goes. 🤔
December 2, 2024 at 10:14 AM
#bcalhelp. I created a new field on Item and field of same name on Sales line. In an event fired from Sales Line No. field on validate I copy the value from Item to Sales Line (have tried many diff. events). Debug shows field is there. Then sales invoice subpage does Find(Which) and value goes. 🤔