Day: November 13, 2023

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 2 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 2.

The twenty-third of the new functionality in the Development section is Add teaching tooltips on queries and report request pages.

Teaching tips are used to increase the user’s chance of success with the query or report. Using a teaching tip also facilitates an easy transition for the user to navigate to the help pane, if more help is needed.

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

Feature Details

The primary purpose of a teaching tip is to increase the user’s chance of success with the query or report. Therefore, the title and description of the teaching tip should answer the following hypothetical user questions:

• AboutTitle: What is this query/report about?
• AboutText: What can I do with this query/report?

Both of these properties (or their equivalent multilanguage versions) must be defined on the query or request page for the teaching tip to appear.

With teaching tips, you can help explain logic that is relevant to the query/report, therefore allowing users to get on with a analytics task right away without blocking them. After users dismiss a teaching tip, they can choose or hover over the query/report title in the page. This action will reopen the teaching tip.

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 2 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 2.

The twenty-second of the new functionality in the Development section is Add a new FieldGroup to an existing table.

One of the highest-voted extensibility gaps in AL is the ability to add field groups to tables through table extensions, when the table doesn’t have one. Apart from a functional gap, this also impacts moving existing on-premise customizations to extensions, be it on-premises still or to cloud.

Enabled for: Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
Public Preview: Sep 2023
General Availability: Oct 2023

Feature Details

While it’s currently possible to add a FieldGroup (a dropdown list, for example) in an extension in a new table or to add fields to an existing FieldGroup for a core table, it isn’t possible to add a FieldGroup to a core table that doesn’t have one already defined. With this new feature, table extensions will be able to add a FieldGroup to existing tables.

The way this works is that a table extension can add fields by using the “addlast” keyword in the Dropdown or Brick field groups, just as today. However, if the field group doesn’t exist on the table, which is being extended, it will be created. If multiple table extensions each add fields, the field group will contain the merged result, in the order that the extensions are loaded (first AppSource apps, then PTEs).

This post is part of the In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (Inventory and Warehouse Management), how do I… series and of the wider In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, how do I… series which I am posting as I familiarise myself with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.

The first level of the advanced warehousing functionality, is to require both a warehouse receipt and a warehouse put-away. There are two toggles on the location card which need to be enabled. When you create a location, on the Warehouse fasttab, you need to toggle the Require Receive and Require Put-away options to the on position:

Receiving goods in this way, allows you to receive and put-away multiple orders at the same time, instead of one-by-one. In the next article of this series, I’ll step through the process of receiving items into the new GREEN location, shown above, using a receipt and a put-away.