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BC Friday Tips #33 Month Enum

Business Central includes built-in enums for month and day-of-week recurrence patterns. Developers can reuse these existing enums rather than creating custom ones, saving development time.

post That NAV Guy

Teddy Herryanto · 2025-06-05 · 70 words · about 1 min

Key points

  • Enum 4691 Recurrence - Month already provides month values, so a custom enum is not needed
  • Enum 4690 Recurrence - Day of Week covers weekdays
  • The Day of Week enum also contains extra values such as Day and Weekday
  • Use the ValuesAllowed property to hide values you do not want

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Context

  • Features: ValuesAllowed property

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