Mastering Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

Creating a timer-based control add-in

Control add-ins are useful also for creating timer-based logic inside a Dynamics 365 Business Central page (which is called ping-pong logic) to execute business logic every N times.

In our AL project, we define our controladdin object as follows:

controladdin D365BCPingPong{    Scripts = 'Scripts/pingpong.js';    StartupScript = 'Scripts/start.js';    HorizontalShrink = true;    HorizontalStretch = true;    MinimumHeight = 1;    MinimumWidth = 1;    RequestedHeight = 1;    RequestedWidth = 1;    VerticalShrink = true;    VerticalStretch = true;    procedure SetTimerInterval(milliSeconds: Integer);    procedure StartTimer();    procedure StopTimer();    event ControlAddInReady();    event PingPongError();    event TimerElapsed();}

The start.js file ...