Category: Business Central

Business Central Create New Extension and Push to GitHub Repository

Git is a distributed version-control system for tracking changes in source code during software development, following video explain how to create new business central extension project  and push extension to git repository

Steps

  1. Create new Project in visual studio code
  2. Create new Repository in GitHub
  3. Check visual studio code and confirm the git enabled
  4. Initialize Repository in visual studio code
  5. Commit changes
  6. Configure remote repository
  7. Synchronize the changes to GitHub

 

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Business Central Install Multiple Extensions using powershell script

One of our customer having 20 + extensions ,while setting up new environment  it’s  very difficult to publish and install all extensions one by one , so I created one powershell script to install multiple extensions . Please check the video for more details ,thanks

Script folder

Business Business Central Administration Shell


# Code to get current path 
function Get-ScriptDirectory {
if ($psise) {Split-Path $psise.CurrentFile.FullPath}
else {Split-Path $script:MyInvocation.MyCommand.Path}
}
# Code to get current path 
$Folder = Get-ScriptDirectory
$ServiceName = Read-Host "Service Name ? :"

$DeveloperLicense = $Folder +'\Developer.flf'
$CustomerLicense = $Folder +'\Customer.flf'

Import-NAVServerLicense -ServerInstance $ServiceName -LicenseFile $DeveloperLicense
$confirmation = Read-Host "Do you want to Uninstall all extensions (y) ? :"
if ($confirmation -eq 'y') {
$Apps = Get-NAVAppInfo -ServerInstance $ServiceName| Where Publisher -ne 'Microsoft'

foreach ($App in $Apps) {
$App | Uninstall-NAVApp -Force
$App | Sync-NAVApp -ServerInstance $ServiceName -force
$App | UnPublish-NAVApp 
} 
write-host " Apps uninstalled Press any key to continue..."
[void][System.Console]::ReadKey($true)
}

Sync-NAVTenant -ServerInstance $ServiceName -Mode ForceSync -force

write-host " Sync Completed Press any key to continue..."
[void][System.Console]::ReadKey($true)

Get-ChildItem -Path (Join-Path $Folder $_) -Filter "*.app" | ForEach-Object { 
Publish-NAVApp -ServerInstance $ServiceName –SkipVerification -Path $_.FullName
}

write-host " New Apps published Press any key to continue..."
[void][System.Console]::ReadKey($true)

Sync-NAVTenant -ServerInstance $ServiceName -Tenant Default -Mode ForceSync -force

write-host " Sync Completed Press any key to continue..."
[void][System.Console]::ReadKey($true)

$Apps = Get-NAVAppInfo -ServerInstance $ServiceName| Where Publisher -ne 'Microsoft' 
foreach ($App in $Apps) { 
$App | Sync-NAVApp -ServerInstance $ServiceName -force 
$App | Install-NAVApp 
}

Sync-NAVTenant -ServerInstance $ServiceName -Tenant Default -Mode ForceSync -force 
Import-NAVServerLicense -ServerInstance $ServiceName -LicenseFile $CustomerLicense

$confirmation = Read-Host "Do you want to restart nav service (y) ? :"
if ($confirmation -eq 'y') {
Stop-NAVServerInstance -ServerInstance $ServiceName -Force
Start-NAVServerInstance -ServerInstance $ServiceName -Force
}