From the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and NAV Blogs: System events; FastTabs; Event recorder; Predictive analysis

This week on the Microsoft Dynamics 365-NAV blog roundup:

• New system events replace codeunit 1 in Business Central October '18 release
• Why you would want to collapse your FastTabs?
• Dynamics 365 Business Central: Using the event recorder for developing
• Smart Solutions 7: Predictive analysis with time series, and intro to R for C/AL developers

New system events replace codeunit 1 in Business Central October '18 release

On the Dynamics NAV Team Blog, the team stated that when you start upgrading to Business Central on-premises, you'll notice that Codeunit 1 ApplicationManagement is missing, which is exactly the way Microsoft wanted it.

The team is refactoring the application as part of its move to modern development as well as to allow extensions to subscribe to events that had been handled by functions in codeunit 1, according to the team.

The old ApplicationManagement codeunit has been retired, and new "system" codeunits have been introduced in the two billion range.

These special codeunits are created by C/SIDE when a database is created so you will always have them, compiled, and ready to go. These new system codeunits do not contain code, all they contain are event publishers. Business Central Server will now call these event publishers instead of calling the respective functions in Codeunit 1 ApplicationManagement directly.

You can read more about the new system codeunits here.

Why you would want to collapse your FastTabs

On his Van Vugt's dynamiXs blog, Luc van Vugt looks at enabling Microsoft Dynamics NAV to perform better by collapsing the FastTabs on your pages.

After upgrading to Dynamics NAV 2018, Vugt's ...