From the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Blogs: Queries; Web widget; Deployment slots

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

• Using the power of queries to bring added intelligence into Dynamics 365 Business Central
• Working with a web widget in Business Central
• Using deployment slots Azure Functions
• Setup NavUserPassword with SSL for Business Central

Using the power of queries to bring added intelligence into Dynamics 365 Business Central

Writing on his Think About It blog, Steven Renders pointed out that currently there seems to be a lot of talk about the performance of Dynamics 365 Business Central.

He stated that Microsoft is continuing to release guidelines and tools about mechanisms to program for analysis and performance monitoring. Additionally, he noted the talk was also ongoing on community forums. He pointed out that artificial intelligence was also a topic of conversation as a way to make D365BC more intelligent.

And then I suddenly thought about something I did a long time ago, for Dynamics NAV, using C/Side, and I figured, well actually this is something that can do all three things using standard objects.

So in his blog post, Renders explained how you can use simple query objects combined with a temp-table as a source for a fact-box to make D365BC smarter while still keeping your footprint low regarding performance and database space usage.

Working with web widgets

Recently, Jesús Almaraz wrote about web widgets on his blog. He stated that initially he was just going to relate a widget with a master table record, such as linking a customer with ...