Simple Object Designer

Empowering you to customize Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central without writing a single line of code

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Create fields on any table

Are you missing a field anywhere in Business Central?

Just select the table, fill in the name of the new field, select a type and you’re done.

Place new fields on any page

After you have created a new field, select where you want your users to see and use the field.

You’ll get a list of all possible places where the field can be shown.

Surface existing fields on any page

The field you’re looking for may already exist in Business Central, and it’s just hidden with no way to display it.

With the Simple Object Designer, you can surface those fields and place them on any page.

Place fields on any report

After adding fields, you might also want to print them.
The Simple Object Designer enables you to add both your new fields and existing fields to a report’s data-set.
Then you can use either Word or Report Builder (depending on the type of report) to add the fields to the layout.

Connect fields between tables

You can activate a Field Transfer if the same is added to multiple tables.
Example: If a field is added to both the customer and the sales order, then you can activate a field transfer to have the field on the sales order be filled out with the value from the customer you select.

Expose data as web service APIs

Microsoft is telling everybody to stop exposing pages as web services and instead use APIs. But there’s no easy way to expose data as API without writing code.
The Simple Object Designer enables you to expose data as true APIs and get all the benefits of an API without writing any code.

Add new features to BC

A feature is data, with user-interface and business logic, all bundled together to extend Business Central to fit your needs. Specify what fields and functionality you want and watch the Object Designer create it for you.

Template-based designs

Select between different templates to easily design new functionality in Business Central without writing any code.
Each template is built with the deep knowledge to produce the same level of quality as you would expect from a senior developer.

How is it actually working?

The Simple Object Designer has an app generator and compiler built-in and outputs a new extension.
The new extension can be installed automatically or downloaded and installed on another environment. (You can create your new fields in a sandbox and afterwards move them to production, or you can work directly in production).

Customers reviews

Awesome app for end-users and developers alike! What we love about the Simple Object Designer is how nimble, agile AND powerful it is. It was easy to install and gave us the flexibility to choose object ranges, code prefixes, etc. And when we create a customization, it's great to be able to download the source code so we can make changes to it in VS Code later or incorporate that into an existing PTE that we've created to address other needs. A sweet bonus is that it can also help us create custom APIs quickly and easily instead of having to worry about making an AL project just for that. It's a fantastic app that's worth every penny we had to pay for it.

Anonymous

THE BEST custom field app I have tried a bunch of plugins that add fields to pages in BC and most are clunky, don't allow you to put the field where you want it and have limited overall functionality. This app allows you to add ANY field type to ANY table in BC - and you don't need a developer

Gili Shiffman

AMAZING! This app is a MUST-HAVE for all Business Central system administrators. In literally 5 minutes I installed it, set it up, placed an existing field that wasn't available for a specific page, and published it. It works! I'm impressed and excited about having this new tool in my BC production environment. Thank you! Well done Eric!

Chris Huovinen

Supported Editions

This app supports the Essential and Premium editions of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

Supported Countries

This app supports all countries where Business Central is available

Supported Languages

The app is available in Czech (Czech Republic), Danish (Denmark), German (all areas), Spanish (Spain and Mexico), Italian, Icelandic, Dutch (Belgium), Finnish (Finland), French (all areas), Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Russian, Swedish and English (all areas)