Business Events in BC

Dynamics 365 ERP - Development

The article discusses the recent Directions EMEA conference where the presenter shared a stage with a colleague to talk about connecting Dataverse with Business Central.
Business Events in Business Central are similar to Integration Events and Trigger Events, and are raised by AL code to notify subscribed external systems.
Event subscriptions in Business Central specify which external system to notify for a particular event and company, stored in the "External Event Subscription" table.
Multiple external systems can be notified for the same business event, and company can be specified for trigger events.
Standard Business Events are already available in Business Central, with potential for more to be added in future versions.
Creating a custom business event involves extending the standard Enum EventCategory and using triggers to fire the event when certain criteria are met.
An example provided is notifying external systems when user status changes in Business Central, with code snippets demonstrating how to achieve this.
The article ends with a reference to another post on using D365 Business Central Business Events with Power Platform.

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