BC Buddy

If you work across several customers or environments, all your Business Central tabs start to look the same. Posting in production while you thought you were in a sandbox is easily done. BC Buddy gives every environment its own colour.

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The most visible part is the bar at the top of the BC client, which takes your colour and your own text:

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Alongside that it can draw a coloured frame around the window, a banner, a marked tab title and a coloured tab icon.

A marked environment: ribbon, frame and corner banner, all in the colour of the rule that matched.

What it does

• Colour per environment. You decide when each colour appears: per environment, per company or per customer. Production green, test orange, sandbox red — or whatever suits you.
• Five ways to mark. Ribbon, frame, banner, tab title and tab icon. Turn on as many as you find useful.
• Online and on-premises. Both are recognised, including the server instance in the URL of an on-prem installation.
• Shared across a team. Set the markings up once and your colleagues get them automatically, later changes included.
• Nothing leaves your machine. No server, no analytics, no tracking. See Privacy.

BC Buddy is a Chrome and Edge extension (Manifest V3), and is available in Dutch and English. It follows the language of your browser. It is open source under the MIT licence, so you are free to use it at work, change it and pass it on.

Installing

1. Download the latest bcbuddy-*.zip from the releases page and unpack it, or clone the repository.
2. Open chrome://extensions (or edge://extensions).
3. Turn on Developer mode.
4. Click Load unpacked and pick the folder you just unpacked.
5. The options page opens automatically on first install.

Chrome 111 or newer is required.

Set up your first environment