From the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central blogs: D365BC & Power BI; Master data sync; Reportextension object; Extend APIs

In this week's Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central blog roundup:

• Business Central and Power Bi: What can you do to make it better?
• Business Central master data synchronization with Power Automate
• Introducing the reportextension object
• Extending standard APIs (Part 1)

Business Central and Power BI: What can you do to make it better?

Writing on his Think About IT blog, Steven Renders explained why it was important for people to vote on a couple ideas:

• Add Business Central as a Data Source in DataFlows
• Enable incremental refresh for Business Central in Power BI

Renders pointed out that he received a lot of questions from partners, customers, developers, users about the performance of Power BI reports built on top of Business Central. He added that the perception was not very good.

He also noted that he received a reply from Microsoft that indicated that the company didn't understand the importance of these ideas and didn't plan to implement them, unless the ideas got more votes.

It’s in the hands of the community now, so if you want something to happen, let yourself be heard and vote and comment on the ideas!

Business Central master data synchronization with Power Automate

On his blog, Josh Anglesea stated that there are apps that handle Business Central master data synchronization with Power Automate, and he's even seen a colleague's version of it that is "quite great."

But Anglesea asked ...