Month: February 2023

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1.

The second of the new functionality in the Development section is Attach Al Debugger To Active Session Or Next Session.

The legacy C/AL debugger supported attaching to an existing session or to the next session for a specific user. While this has been possible with the AL snapshot debugger for some time, the standard, more powerful AL debugger in Visual Studio Code is still missing this capability, and it’s been a partner ask to fill this gap for a while. With the introduction of service-to-service (S2S) authentication, this has become more important, since it’s now much harder to debug important web service scenarios, which are only possible with snapshot debugger.

Enabled for: Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
Public Preview: Mar 2023
General Availability: Apr 2023

Feature Details

Developers often experience reduced responsiveness and delayed results when using static code analysis tools (AL cops) to find diagnostic issues. This can be annoying and affect their productivity, as they cannot react faster on the issues detected in the code. With this release we’re planning to improve the performance of the compiler and code analyzer framework, as well as optimize inefficient code analyzer rules—all to boost developer productivity.

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This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1.

The first of the new functionality in the Development section is AL Explorer And AL Home In Visual Studio Code AL Extension.

Over the last several releases Microsoft have made a remarkable transformation of their development tools, to align them with the expectations of the worldwide community of developers. Visual Studio Code, GitHub, and Application Insights are the tools used by millions of developers worldwide, and they can now join the Business Central developer community much easier, with less ramp-up time needed.

On the other hand, regardless of their efforts in scaling the developer community, the broader trend shows that we won’t be able to keep up with the demand in that area, so Microsoft need to focus their efforts on increasing pro developer productivity as well as re-enabling consultants to do more on their own, like in the classic C/SIDE RAD experience, with little to no dependency on scarce pro developer resources or need to work directly in source code, and still abiding to proper quality and continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) processes.

Enabled for: Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
Public Preview: Feb 2023
General Availability: Apr 2023

Feature Details

With the introduction of the AL Explorer, we are bringing a powerful tool to the hands of pro developers and technical consultants, allowing both roles to explore, navigate, and better understand objects in extensions, including object details, dependencies, and extension points, without looking at the code. This increases daily productivity for developers and allows technical consultants to understand high-level structures of extensions in order to specify new features, or even do light troubleshooting.

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This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1.

The second of the new functionality in the Country and regional section is Supporting More Countries And Regions.

More countries and regions are added to bring Business Central to approximately 130 countries and regions.

Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview: May 2023
General Availability: Jun 2023

Feature Details

Microsoft are expanding to more countries/regions through partner-led localization. Our partners create the relevant localization apps and publish them to AppSource. In combination with the built-in language offerings, Microsoft are making Business Central online available to serve customers in 130-plus countries and regions worldwide.

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This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1.

The first of the new functionality in the Country and regional section is Swedish Localization Delivered As Extension.

With 2023 release wave 1, Swedish localization will be delivered as an extension.

Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview: Mar 2023
General Availability: Apr 2023

Feature Details

Swedish localization will be delivered as an extension. The solution will offer a data upgrade from the old localization to the new one. This release is a step toward delocalization where ISVs will be able to release their apps for a broader market.

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1.

The thirteenth of the new functionality in the Application section is Undo Transfer Shipments.

Sometimes people post incorrect quantities on transfer orders. For example, you may have made a transfer order with the incorrect number of items and then posted it as shipped, but not received. This feature lets you undo the quantity posting, make the necessary corrections, and then post the correct quantity.

Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview: Mar 2023
General Availability: Apr 2023

Feature Details

If you discover a mistake in a quantity after you’ve posted a transfer order, as long as the shipment isn’t received you can easily correct the quantity. On the Posted Transfer Shipment page, the Undo Shipment action creates corrective lines:

• The value in the Quantity Shipped field is decreased by the quantity you’ve undone.
• The Qty. to Ship is increased by the quantity you’ve undone.
• The Correction checkbox is selected for the lines.
• If the quantity was shipped in a warehouse shipment, a corrective line is created in the posted warehouse shipment.

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This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1.

The twelfth of the new functionality in the Application section is Synchronize Returns, Refunds From Shopify.

In an integration between Shopify and Business Central, it’s important to be able to synchronize as much business data as possible. That makes it easier to keep your financials and inventory levels up to date in Business Central. Microsoft have expanded the data you can synchronize to include returns and refunds that were recorded in Shopify Admin or Shopify POS.

Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview: Mar 2023
General Availability: Apr 2023

Feature Details

The returns and refunds that you record in Shopify are imported to Business Central when you synchronize orders.

The details about the feature are not yet defined. You can add your comments to the product suggestion: a href=’https://experience.dynamics.com/ideas/idea/?ideaid=f2d599d7-b84f-ed11-97b2-0003ff45c94c’>Shopify Refunds sync to Business Central.

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1.

The eleventh of the new functionality in the Application section is Shopify Connector Becomes Extensible.

Tailor Shopify Connector to address the specific needs of your business.

Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview: Mar 2023
General Availability: Apr 2023

Feature Details

Shopify Connector has been non-extensible, but Microsoft are changing that by offering a few points of extensibility. They’ll keep the number of points to a minimum so that they can follow the rapid development on the Shopify side without introducing breaking changes.

Microsoft are opening for extensibility for specific scenarios, based on feedback from partners and customers. Please share your scenarios as comments to the following product suggestion: Allow extensibility of the new Shopify Connector Extension.

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This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1.

The tenth of the new functionality in the Application section is Ship And Receive Non-Inventory Items On Warehouse Documents.

Warehouse employees can ship and receive non-inventory items, such as insurance or cost, on sales or purchase orders along with the physical goods on the orders.

Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview: Mar 2023
General Availability: Apr 2023

Feature Details

Sales and purchase orders often have various types of things on their lines. For example, they might have general ledger items, accounts, and fixed assets. For configurations where you handle physical goods in warehouse documents, such as inventory put-aways, warehouse receipts, inventory picks, or warehouse shipments, you can also post some types of non-inventory items. In the previous version, you had to post non-inventory items separately.

This applies to two scenarios:

• Post all non-inventory lines on the source document as soon as at least one non-inventory item is posted by the warehouse document.
• Post non-inventory lines of the source document linked to the item via the Attached to Line No. field when the item is posted by a warehouse document.

To start using this feature, on the Inventory Setup page, turn on the Non-Inventory Items Posting Policy toggle.

My Opinion

I’ve not dealt too much with stock at the moment, but I did see a conversation the other day on one of the forums about this exact issue. It seems odd that you had to process the non-inventory items separately, although from another point of view they aren’t stock so shouldn’t be on a warehouse transactions, so I can see the benefit of this functionality and it has been added behind a setting so the current method is the default for people already using Dynamics BC.

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1.

The ninth of the new functionality in the Application section is Set Up And Sync Master Data Across Companies.

Business Central makes it easy to move one company’s setup to another company in the same environment. You can also synchronize master data between the companies.

Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview: Mar 2023
General Availability: Apr 2023

Feature Details

This feature is intended for scenarios in which you want to move the setup in one company to another company in the same environment. It’s also built as a data synchronization engine that lets you keep data in the companies synchronized after the initial move.

The following capabilities are added for managing master data:

• Moving master data works when a company subscribes to data from another company.
• You can define the tables and fields to synchronize. For more control over the synchronization, you can filter on table records. You can also set up more advanced synchronization couplings.
• Changes in the main company are immediately pulled to the receiving companies by the job queue.
• Users in the receiving company can review synchronization logs.

My Opinion

This sounds quite interesting, depending of course on which master data can be synchronised and how it works, but I have in the past spoken to a number of clients who want to maintain a set of core master data in one compny and have it available in others (e.g. a unified chart of accounts). I’m interested in getting hands on with this one in April (possibly March in a sandbox).

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1.

The eighth of the new functionality in the Application section is Review General Ledger Accounts Faster.

During the process of closing a period it’s often necessary to go through all transactions for a G/L account to ensure they’re correct. The G/L Review action makes the review process faster and easier.

Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview: Mar 2023
General Availability: Apr 2023

Feature Details

To speed up the period-end process of reviewing and reconciling G/L accounts, you can review the G/L entries for a given G/L account and mark the entries as Reviewed.

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