Creating an Extension in Business Central using the Designer
You can use the drag and drop functions in Design Mode to create many extensions without coding. Design Mode is only available in the Sandbox. Once you have finished your design changes, you download the code that Microsoft created behind the scenes. Then create a new folder for Visual Studio Code. Then extract the contents of the downloaded zip file to that folder. Then create an .app file (a package – one and the same). Go to the live instance of Business Central and Upload
Adding a Simple Dataset to the Customer Table and Page, within Business Central
Customizations and modifications to Business Central are done with Extensions. They can be installed or uninstalled at will without altering the underlying BC tables or code. This is the modern way to customize, so that the client is not locked into an old version of the ERP. I created a Rewards table, with 3 entries and linked it to the Customer Table and Page (the table is the underlying data, while the Page is a screen usually showing just one record – unless it is a heade
