Adding a javascript Color Picker in AL to Business Central

[@reneschmidt3972]

Great video Eric! I really enjoy your videos

Hey................ Great...... You are really, really fast, and hardworker..... Thank you ever so much.

[@bas9022]

Hi Erik, the video's are very inspiring! JavaScript opens new possibilities! Just wondering if it’s also possible to use it in the background and not with a usercontrol. I would like to modify PDF’s by putting a watermark picture on top of a PDF page in the background with the jobqueue when a certain process is done.

[@Hougaard]

No, only through a user control.

[@SpyFr]

Hi Erik, Could it be possible to set a red background color for a dev instance, orange for a user test instance... ? So we could be able to immediately identify which instance we are on. I mean the back-background of the html page. The label we can define in the company information card is not enough, good for the current company identification but I'm looking for an obvious graphical solution. [On-Prem 18.0]

[@Hougaard]

Check this for inspiration kzbin.info/www/bejne/fZKvkIyJirGonZY

[@SpyFr]

Very nice 👍 Thank you Erik

[@mauriciovillatoro9361]

So cool, more videos like this please.

[@alexjose7100]

Hi Erik, Thank you so much for this great video. Just one small doubt, can we pick a color from the picker and change the background color of a another field in the page?

[@Hougaard]

That would be a major hack... but a good one, let me think about that :) (Putting it on the videos-to-do-list)...

[@alexjose7100]

@@Hougaard looking forward for the video 😍

[@ExcelObianyiscoarts]

Good day. Wonderful video. I have a question, How can I create a color field in a page using a control addin?

[@Hougaard]

There's a video on the channel with some javascript hackery that does that :)

[@ExcelObianyiscoarts]

Thanks@@Hougaard

[@lk75yt]

Can you briefly explain the advantages of the used color picker? Why don't you use a html color input? As far as I can tell this does the exact same thing, except some built-in logic for getting the selected color's values (other than hex).

[@Hougaard]

Just an example of how to something like that in AL.

[@lk75yt]

@@Hougaard if you or anyone else is interested I have uploaded my solution with the html input on github: github.com/lassekilperkm/HTML-Color-Picker

[@Hougaard]

Nice!

[@JosepPages7]

@@lk75yt thanks a lot!

[@rohitkumar-th8nj]

Thanks Erik, i learn lot from yours videos, could you make a video on how to store records in json and display them in controladdin.

[@Hougaard]

What's the use case?

[@rohitkumar-th8nj]

Situation where some modifications are to be done in some records based on some condition the idea was to to preview changes before commit to DB.

[@anavalcazar]

@@rohitkumar-th8nj Hi. ¿Did you discover the way? I'm triyng this exact point, store records from BC in Json and display them in a pageext with controladdin.

[@gertlynge]

Is that a Commodore 64 behind you? Does it work? 🙂

[@Hougaard]

Yes, they do work! (There's actually 2 C64s, the Vic-20 behind me haven't started in quite a few years).....

[@gertlynge]

Cool. The VIC20 was my first computer. Learned to program on that in Basic. Life was way simpler with just 4KB RAM and no strange AL compiler errors 😉

[@ant1d0te]

So now you say to BC developers: AL is nothing, learn JavaScript because it is the future of BC! :)

[@Hougaard]

No, but I am kinda saying that Javascript is the new language of the client as soon as you're "outside" pure business logic.