Matthew Perren
@matnav.co.uk
#MSDyn365BC senior consultant. Reporting specialist #PowerBI #JetReports #SQL #Cosmos Professional profile of @matthewperren.bsky.social
Perhaps I’m late to the party, but I had to do a demo of #MSDyn365BC to a prospect this week. Remembering something I’d seen @mynavblog.bsky.social do, I fed the parameters of the demo, and the prospect’s web address to #Copilot and asked for demo data in Config. pack format and it did it! Amazing!
Any of my #MSDyn365BC folks demo’d the Purchase Agent? I’ve messed around but ran out of credits before I’d got very far
I miss #MSDyn365BC Twitter so it was excellent to finally meet my friend from those days, @thedoubleh.dev and his lovely wife face-to-face for lunch in Edinburgh.
I hadn’t realised that Data Braider is now free for #MSDyn365BC If you’ve ever bemoaned the very basic APIs that are available out of the box in BC, it’s the extension for you Thanks @bc.jeremy.vyska.info and @stefanmaron.com
Thinking with eternal gratitude about @luisefreese.bsky.social today as, having started a new job, I set up Outlook for inbox zero. Possibly the only literally life-changing thing I’ve done with technology www.m365princess.com/blogs/overco...
How can we overcome the pain with email?
Inbox Zero? I reached this goal, inbox zero. I wrote a tutorial how everyone can achieve that, too. Why is this important? For several reasons:
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Any Business Central manufacturing experts out there? I need to brush up. Who’s got good content? #MSDyn365BC
I mean, sure, if you’re a fan of it, but there’s a time and a place.
I’m returning laptops and screens to my old employer tomorrow. My new employer has sent me a single small screen. I’m currently working with two Dell 24” monitors and my laptop (16”). Any recommendations for replacements. What are the big curved screens like? Any good?
I have a customer wanting to use the Power BI template reports for #MSDyn365BC Can anyone tell me how I can get the dates to display as UK format dates? It seems to be a very elusive setting if it exists at all!
I had to uninstall MS Copilot in order to allow Excel to recognise my mouse clicks. Good job lads. Good job.
Mate’s in the middle of a go-live and has found a weird bug They have some custom roles set up. A user has found that in one role they can create a new Project Planning Line but in another, they can’t. Error says Project Task No. Is required. Permissions are by user so what’s going on? #MSDyn365BC
Aaaaahhhh!!! MB-800 expired on the 4th. I thought I had until the end if the month. Now I have to sit an exam!
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Just earned my "Trained by Cosmos" badge! Ready to help businesses transform complex Business Central data into clear, actionable insights. #DataClarity #CosmosReady
I got asked to speak at a “thing” that I’ve spoken at before. I’ve spent a couple of days of personal time preparing slide decks and demo environments The organiser has been uncommunicative to put it lightly (unlike previous occasions). The agenda is out and I’m not on it I’m somewhat pissed off
I’ve read a couple of articles about #PowerAutomate flows to automate the setting of an out of office in Outlook. However the formulas they recommend for start/end date times all feature utcNow() but in ways that make no sense. It’s volatile so would need to be part of an extended if statement no?
Oi. Microsoft. Put back the option to send #MSDyn365BC reports to excel data AND layout. You scamps.
Anyone else having fun with MTD and the VAT Statement box numbers? #MSDyn365BC
That new logo is a bit copiloty Does that mean the copilot elements are going to be useful. Or…not. (Rhetorical question)
Someone on LinkedIn bigging up copilot for knowing how a MID function works in excel. Oddly enough, google knows too. Not sure what the value copilot added there but our correspondent wants us to know about it.
I have a shared diary at work. All the project managers have the right to edit. I’d like to put an approval workflow in place that requires them to ask for my permission to add or edit an entry to the diary. I’ve googled and the words “outlook” and “approval” bring up a LOT of irrelevant stuff
Client: we need a feature that does “this” Us: Builds a feature that does “this” C: Oh, it needs to also do “that” Us: Adds “that” C: Why can’t it do “x” I’m sure we asked for “x” (they did not) Us: Gives them “x” C: We’ve decided that you’ve made it too complicated and we don’t want it.
The new #MSDyn365BC feed seems to work ok. Find it here. bsky.app/profile/did:...
Just created a new #MSDyn365BC feed and I’m testing it out. It includes #BCALhelp and a couple of other common hashtags but I could do with a reminder of others we might commonly use. I’m testing it in a sandbox before publishing it to replace the now defunct one.
Apologies to everyone who is waiting for me to find a replacement feed service for #MSDyn365BC and #BCALhelp I’m really busy with work just now but I will get to it shortly.
For every person saying everyone will become an AI vibe coder, there’s 743,000 people who are still unaware of Tables in Excel. #MostPeopleDontCare
I famously do not like or trust AI. But Kurt has a more measured and hopeful view. I hope he’s right.
Wrote a #PowerBI dashboard for a client. The guy I wrote it for was sacked shortly after for… reasons Today I got a support ticket. The company they have hired to write the *same* dashboard (that they clearly don’t know they have) need me to explain the relations between tables in #MSDyn365BC
