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Extending Microsoft Business Central with Power Platform

Extending Microsoft Business Central with Power Platform

By : Kim Congleton, Shawn Sissenwein
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Extending Microsoft Business Central with Power Platform

Extending Microsoft Business Central with Power Platform

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By: Kim Congleton, Shawn Sissenwein

Overview of this book

Unlock the untapped potential of Business Central by harnessing the power of the Power Platform with this comprehensive guide, transforming your cumbersome manual processes and limited customization capabilities into a vast array of extended functionalities and possibilities. You’ll begin by exploring the potential of Power Platform and its seamless integration with both the on-premises and cloud versions of Business Central, amplifying the capabilities of your business operations. You’ll then learn how to set up virtual tables and use Dataverse to create a simple model-driven app. As the book progresses, you’ll leverage Power Apps, including both Canvas apps and model-driven apps, to build apps around Business Central processes. The book also highlights Power Automate’s capabilities to create or modify business processes while incorporating new processes and automation. As you advance, you’ll connect to Business Central APIs that can be implemented to connect with Business Central Data and finally integrate Power BI natively with Business Central, empowering you to construct advanced reports and dashboards. With the hands-on experience gained throughout the book, you’ll build expertise in customizing Business Central with Power Platform to deliver more scalable and maintainable solutions.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
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Part 1 – Part Fundamentals
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Part 2 – Doing the Work of Designing, Building, and Implementing
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Part 3 – Common Business Cases in Business Central for the Power Platform
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Part 4 – Tips and Tricks for Common Issues

Connecting Power BI for Business Central Data

In this chapter, you’ll use the skills you learned in Chapter 2 on connecting to Business Central and out-of-the-box APIs to connect data to Power BI. In addition, we will walk through connecting Power BI to an Excel file. Finally, we will review setting up parameters in the report to connect to different databases and companies, along with basic best practices in data modeling. In this chapter, we will use Power BI Desktop and publish it to a workspace and Business Central.

Lastly, we will review different visuals and give hints on which visuals to use for what story you are trying to tell. It is essential to have clean data and excellent data modeling skills, and you will want your report to tell a story and make sense to the report consumers. Knowing your audience is critical in this process.

In this chapter, we’re going to cover the following main topics:

  • Enabling Power BI reports within Business Central
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