Quick Tip: BC28: What Is New in Document Reporting At the start of April I published a hands-on post about the Word add-in and mentioned that a new version was in preview with improvements coming in a minor BC28 update. BC28 is now generally availa…

BC28 introduces several updates to document reporting:
- Word layouts are becoming easier to build and maintain
- Layout lifecycle management finally brings control
- Multi-language behavior is now predictable
- 36 new APIs

Full breakdown:
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Quick Tip: Business Central Launch Edition 2026 Wave 1: 37 Sessions The Business Central Launch Edition for 2026 release wave 1 went live on April 1, 2026: Thirty-seven sessions, just under ten hours, all free at aka.ms/BCLE. I covered the release notes a few weeks…

Business Central 2026 Wave 1 launch videos are out.
37 sessions, grouped and linked for quick access.

If you want a fast overview without digging through release notes, start here:
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How Do I: Use the Word Add-in for Business Central Report Layouts Word layouts for Business Central document reports have always been a practical choice for invoices, quotes, orders, and other documents you send to customers or suppliers. Designing those layouts,…

Using Word layouts in Business Central?

Here is when the Word add-in actually helps:
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Which Power BI License Do You Need for Business Central? One of the most common questions I get when setting up Power BI with Business Central is: do I need a paid Power BI license? The short answer is yes. But let me explain exactly why, and what happen…

Power BI + Business Central looks simple until licensing gets involved.

Do users need Power BI Pro to view reports?

Short answer: often yes.
Long answer: it depends on how you share.

Practical explanation here:
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Business Central 2026 Release Wave 1: A Mix of Platform Evolution and Practical Improvements Microsoft has published the release notes for Business Central version 28, which reaches general availability in April 2026. The preview has been available since early March, and the feature table …

Microsoft published the release notes for Business Central version 28.

A layered release:
Platform evolution in the background, dozens of practical improvements in the foreground.

Full breakdown with documentation links on my blog:
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API Pages vs API Queries in Business Central: When to Use Each When you need to expose data from Business Central, the first question is not how, but what kind of interaction you need: Are you writing data into the system, or reading data out of it? That singl…

Most BC integrations start wrong.

Not “how do we expose data”
but:
are we writing or reading?

API pages = transactions
API queries = analytics

Mixing both is where problems start.

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Where GitHub Copilot Actually Saves Time in AL Projects A practical look at where GitHub Copilot saves real time in AL development for Business Central, with examples from Agent, Chat, Ask, and Edit mode.

Where does GitHub Copilot actually save time in AL projects?

In my experience:
• generating boilerplate
• exploring APIs
• writing test code
• explaining existing code

New post:
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Quick Tip: Business Central Update 27.5 Released and Version 28 Preview Sandboxes Available Microsoft recently released update 27.5 for Dynamics 365 Business Central, the latest monthly update for the 2025 release wave 2 cycle. At the same time, something else interesting happened: previe…

Business Central Update 27.5 has been released, and you can now create preview sandboxes for Business Central version 28.

Short overview and links:
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Introducing AL Table Visualizer: An Interactive ER Diagram for Your Business Central Tables Visualize Business Central table relations in VS Code. AL Table Visualizer turns AL TableRelation properties into an interactive ER diagram with base app support.

In AL training, I see this all the time.

Syntax is not the hard part.
Understanding the Business Central data model is.

So I built a VS Code extension that visualizes table relations as an interactive ER diagram.

More here:
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How Do I: Replace Reports with Analysis Mode in Business Central Introduction In many Business Central environments, reports are still the default answer to almost every data question. Need a Top 10 list? Create a report. Need balances by period? Run a report. N…

Many reports exist only to answer a question, not to produce a document.
In this post, I walk through some examples of replacing classic reports with Analysis Mode:
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How Do I: Analyze List Pages and Data Using Analysis Mode in Business Central Introduction List pages in Dynamics 365 Business Central are central to daily operational work: customers, vendors, items, ledger entries, and documents.What is often overlooked is that these same …

In this post, I walk through how to analyze list pages directly in Business Central, when it makes sense to use Analysis Mode, and why it can replace many traditional reports.

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Quick Tip: Business Central Update 27.3 – What’s New Microsoft has released Update 27.3 for Dynamics 365 Business Central as part of the 2025 release wave 2. While this update is still incremental in nature, it does introduce several notable improvem…

Business Central Update 27.3 is out.
Highlights include Payables Agent improvements, expanded regional support, and compliance-related features.

Quick summary 👉
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Do You Really Need Plan Mode If You Already Use Agents Well? A question that came up in a recent discussion made me pause. If you already use Copilot Agents with clear instructions to plan first and not modify anything, what does Plan mode really add? Is it …

I wrote a short reflection on where Plan mode actually adds value, where custom agents already shine, and why the real difference is often about intent rather than tools.

Curious how others approach this in their daily work.
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Fair question. You can approximate Plan mode with an Agent and strong instructions. The main difference for me is intent: Plan mode is opinionated about staying in planning and resists drifting into solutioning.
If your custom agents already do that, you’re likely getting the same value.

How Do I: Create a Business Central Trial From Scratch At the start of a new year, many people decide to explore Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. This might be because of curiosity, a new role, a new project, a training, a demo or the need to e…

I published a short guide on how to create a Business Central trial from scratch, starting with a Microsoft 365 trial and explaining what actually triggers the trial period and why the country choice matters.
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Thank you Renato for being my 'presenter in crime' at conferences! ;-) Have an amazing 2026!

Looking Back at 2025: What This Year Taught Me Towards the end of 2025, I like to pause and look back, not just at what I published on this blog, but at what I learned by writing, building, and engaging with the community. This year covered a b…

I wrote a short reflection on what this year of writing, building, speaking, and teaching taught me.

It was a good moment to pause and say thank you.

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Over the past months, I’ve spent a lot of time experimenting with GitHub Copilot in my day-to-day AL development work.

In this post, I share the mental model I now use when working with Copilot:
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Copilot Plan Mode in AL: Clarifying Intent Before Writing Code In the previous posts, I looked at Chat, Ask, Edit, and Agent, and how each supports a different moment in AL development. Introduction to GitHub Copilot in VSCode for AL Development – think about …

Copilot Plan mode is not about writing code faster.

It is about clarifying intent before code is written.

In this post, I look at how Plan mode fits into AL development, and why it makes Agent and Edit far more predictable.

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Copilot Agent in AL: Using It Well Without Losing Control In the previous post, I looked at Chat, Ask, and Edit and how each supports a different moment in AL development. All three operate at a local level: one file one selection one idea at a time That …

Copilot Agent can be very effective in AL development — but not as a one-prompt solution generator.

In this post, I share how I use Agent iteratively, with constraints and intent, to keep control over structure and design.

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Draft almost ready, quick summary:

• Chat / Ask / Edit → local work
• Agent → guided execution
• Plan → intent before action

Yes, next post will be about Agent and then Plan ;-)

Chat, Ask, or Edit? Using GitHub Copilot Effectively in AL Development In the previous post, I introduced GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code and the different modes it offers for AL development. Once you start using Copilot more actively, one question comes up very …

GitHub Copilot in VS Code offers multiple ways to interact with your code, but they are not interchangeable.

In this post, I walk through a small AL example to explain when Chat, Ask, and Edit actually make sense.

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Introduction to GitHub Copilot in VSCode for AL Development GitHub Copilot has quietly become one of the most helpful tools for anyone working with Business Central. What began as a smart autocomplete has now evolved into a full set of AI-powered features b…

I was initially sceptical about GitHub Copilot for AL.
Now it’s part of my daily Business Central workflow — not because it writes code for me, but because it helps with structure, refactoring, and understanding existing code faster.

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Quick Tip: Business Central Updates 27.1 & 27.2: A Quick Look at What’s New Microsoft has released the latest incremental updates for Dynamics 365 Business Central, and both 27.1 and 27.2 bring practical improvements. Below is a concise overview you can share with your use…

New Business Central updates are out.
Here’s a quick overview of what’s new in Updates 27.1 & 27.2 — automation, e-docs, reporting, admin tools & more.

Read the summary 👉 thinkaboutit.be/2025/12/quic...

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Ran into the Business Central error “EnableHyperlinks property has not been set for this report”?
Turns out you can’t change this property from a Report Extension — but there’s a simple workaround. 👇

Look here: thinkaboutit.be/2025/12/how-... 💡📄
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