Making your app cloud-compatible can be a real challenge – there is a number of functionalities that are only available for OnPrem solutions or require major workarounds. You can easily check the effort that will be required if you already have a working OnPrem app – just go to your app.json file and set the “target” parameter to “Cloud”. However, it is a bit more difficult if your solution is not even on AL yet.

In order to have a basic understanding of what it might cost to build a cloud-compatible app – we will overview 3 main groups that cause most of the issues and technical challenges. Keep in mind that “cost” here means that you either lose some functionalities in your solution or allocate quite some time to recreate them.

Group 1

Standard procedures only available OnPrem

Looking inside the BaseApp you will see that there are quite a number of standard procedures that have scope set to “OnPrem”:

It means that if your customizations are using any of these standard procedures – they will not be available in cloud-compatible app. Here is a list of all „OnPrem“ scope functions that you can find in Business Central 2022 release wave 2: