Business Central Table Viewer Extension

Overview

After a week of "disconnecting" on the Camino de Santiago, without a computer nearby and catching snippets of the Build conference, I was really eager to write some code—anything at all, even if it didn't make much sense.

So, as soon as I got home, to satisfy this urge and sleep peacefully, I decided to work for a while on a small browser extension for Microsoft Edge. This extension allows users to quickly view data from tables in Dynamics 365 Business Central. By entering the table ID, users can open a new tab with the corresponding information.

A large part of the code is inspired/copied from another repository: https://github.com/StefanMaron/OpenPageInspection. Although at the time I submitted a pull request to see if the functionality could be added to the tool (StefanMaron/OpenPageInspection#1), after using it almost daily, I wanted to make some changes but hadn't found the time. So now I’m killing two birds with one stone: I’m creating this functionality as a standalone extension, applying some modifications I wanted to make, and sleeping peacefully. :)

I’m sharing the link here in case it can be useful to someone else.

PS: At the moment, it only has manual installation. :3

Use case

Many times, I need to see all the information contained in a table. Before, I used to do it by manually modifying the url, adding "table=" followed by the table ID. Now with this small extension we only have to indicate the table id and click on a button.

Installation

At the moment the installation is manual :).

1. Clone or download this repository to your local machine.

   

2. Open Microsoft Edge and navigate to edge://extensions/.

   

3. Enable "Developer mode" using the toggle switch at the bottom left of the page.

   

4. Click on the "Load unpacked" button and select the folder containing the extension files.

   

   Result

   

5. Change button visibility for easy access.

   

   Result

   

Usage

1. Click on the extension icon in the browser toolbar to open the popup interface.

   

2. Enter the table ID you want to view in the input field.

3. Click the "View" button.

   

4. If the URL is valid, a new tab will open with the table information. If the URL is not valid, an error message will be displayed.