To surface a document library stored in Azure Blob Storage in Business Central. The documents only live in Azure Blob Storage but can be accessed through Business Central. The documents can be opened in the browser from an action. Continue reading
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Challenge #4 – Translate Item Descriptions
For companies that provide item descriptions in more than one language, storing these descriptions on the item card (via extended text, for example) provides a ready-to-use reference. As new items are entered, a service would translate the item description into one or more languages and store the translation for reference or use on orders or e-commerce engines. Continue reading
Challenge #3 – Include twitter feed on the customer card
To form the basis for monitoring customer sentiment, opportunities, or issues, enter a twitter handle for your customers and show a twitter timeline for the customer on the customer card. Continue reading
Challenge #5 – Classify your customers
Add a field to classify your customers in Inactive, Bronze, Silver, Gold customers. Continue reading
Challenge #2 – Geocode customers
As customers are created or modified, their addresses are automatically geocoded and their location are stored in a set of new fields on the Customer table. A factbox showing the current location of the customer on a map is added to the Customer Card and links to open a large map or get directions are available as well. As a bonus, you can create an action, which will display all customers within a certain range on a map. Continue reading
Challenge #1 – Auto-fill company information on the customer card
As a new customer is entered in Dynamics 365 Business Central, the user can decide to enter a domain name instead of the name, which leads to the system looking up the information for the company associated with this domain name from a Web Service and filling out the remaining fields on the customer card with information obtained from the Web Service. Continue reading