Business Central - To create a test company

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Objective

Sometimes we need to test features or data before applying to live environment. Officially Microsoft provides sandbox with pre-built data set only. As there is no extra license required for creating another companies, we can simply copy whole live environment to new blank company. You just need to name it with obvious name that everyone is able to notice at first glance. Of course you can set user permissions to allow access to this test company for certain users only.

Procedure

  1. Choose the Alt icon, enter Companies, and then choose the related link. full

  2. Select live company which you like to copy from. Then go to Process and select Copy. full

  3. New modal pops up and enter new test company name. Then switch on I understand button and click OK button.
    Business Central - Copying Company

  4. You will see a succesful message when the company copied.

WARNING - It may affect performance of live company depending on size of live company during copying procedure.

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