Spare Brained Ideas

Spare Brained Ideas is a Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central partner that creates apps, books, and content to help partners and users in the Business Central space.

Supercharge Your Smarts with Our E-Books

Your First 20 Hours with Business Central

When Getting Started with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, it’s hard to know what to do. This eBook could just be your key guide.

Title image of the Business Central book: "Your First 20 Hours with Business Central" - a guided tour through basic use and setup of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central by Jeremy Vyska.

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central API Reference

This book is meant to be not only an introduction but a powerful companion to the official documentation for anyone who has a need to rely on the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central API.

Title image of the Business Central book: "Your First 20 Hours with Business Central" - a guided tour through basic use and setup of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central by Jeremy Vyska.

Solutions

Data Braider

Powerful No-Code Custom API

Data Braider allows consultants, implementers, and users to create custom API endpoints.

Logo for Data Braider, with a brain like shape made of connected nodes, flowing out to a pair of wires. Below the name is the company name, Spare Brained Ideas

Past Courses

For some of our workshops, the challenge is finding the time or fitting the class into your schedule. To help with that, we will sometimes make courses available under a “As if you were there” downloadable content.

Currently available are:

Being Efficient With VSC and AL

Instructor
Jeremy Vyska (MVP)

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€100 excl. VAT

Whenever I teach any class in Business Central, I often find I spend about 10-20% of the class time on all the little tips and tricks I’ve picked up to coding as lazy efficiently as possible with Visual Studio Code.

This workshop will be a speed run through building a basic new module (application) for Business Central, but with a focus on how to be faster.  (This means it’s also great for new-to-BC developers, as you’ll see an extension built from scratch.)

Note: This set of sessions is explicitly excluding talk/use of any Copilots.

Being Efficient with
AL, VS Code, Copilot

Instructor
Jeremy Vyska (MVP)

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€100 excl. VAT

This workshop will be a speed run through building a basic new module (application) for Business Central, but with a focus on how to be faster. (This means it’s also great for new-to-BC developers, as you’ll see an extension built from scratch.)  This workshop is estimated to run 1-2 hours.

This version is focused on using GitHub Copilot, looking at all the considerations you can use to try to get the most out of your virtual helper.

Excel Reporting in BC24

Instructor
Jeremy Vyska (MVP)

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€100 excl. VAT

This workshop will be a detailed walkthrough on both the how and what to do with Excel Reporting in Business Central v24, including talking about Queries vs Data Models, translations, and lots more.

Let’s spend some time talking about building the AL data models and setting up your consumers for success.  Then, we’ll pivot and play the role of the “consumer”, building layouts on top of the models you’ve made.

Advanced Page Techniques

Instructor
Mark Rembisz

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€100 excl. VAT

Unleash the full potential of Page Design in Business Central with our workshop on ‘Advanced Page Techniques’.

Discover valuable tips and tricks to elevate your page layouts and functionalities, including maximizing the Action Bar, implementing Page Background Tasks, integrating Notifications, and leveraging FactBoxes effectively.

Learn how to link to subpages, generate temporary data for display, and optimize your user interface for enhanced user experience.

Introduction to Warehousing

Instructor
Jeremy Vyska (MVP)

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€100 excl. VAT

Explore the diverse options available within the Location Card in Business Central, including the various types of documents used for interactions such as Shipments, Receipts, Warehouse Shipments, Picks, Inventory Picks, Movements, and Movement worksheets.

Gain a high-level understanding of setting up and executing warehouse operations in a structured and efficient manner.

Explore the essentials of warehouse management, from initial setup to daily operations.

Test App Strategies

Instructor
Jeremy Vyska (MVP)

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€100 excl. VAT

Move beyond the technicalities of how to test and focus on elucidating what to test and why.

Explore effective strategies for test creation, understanding the value different types of tests bring, and mastering the art of communicating that value.

Learn how to effectively engage with your team or customers, discussing the importance of testing, showcasing the value it provides, and aligning on test priorities.

Enhance your testing prowess and elevate your approach to quality assurance with this engaging and insightful session.