Tech Tips July 2022

This week I created an automated workflow that emails a report to a user weekly. To do this, I used a ‘Codeunit’ to implement the logic and a ‘Job Queue’ to schedule the task at hand. Although there are built-in workflows in Business Central, I found that writing an AL script...

One of the reports I worked on this week required me to read data from a Blob field on a Business Central page. A BLOB (Binary Large Object) is a complex data type in Business Central with a variable-length allowing it to store text, bitmaps, or user-defined files with a max size of 2 GB. I learned that in order to interact with this data type, one needs to use stream objects as a pipeline for data flow...