Day: November 21, 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 third of the new functionality in the Onboarding section is Demo tool and data for service scenarios.

To help partners demonstrate the advanced capabilities of Business Central, Microsoft are making a demo tool that provides setup and data for service scenarios.

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

Feature Details

The Contoso Coffee app provides a demo tool and a related set of demo data for service scenarios. You can install the extension in any environment. Presales specialists can run the tool on Cronus or My Company and get the setup and demo data needed to demonstrate various scenarios. For Business Central on-premises, the demo tool and data are available on the product media as source code.

Contoso Coffee is a fictitious company that produces consumer and commercial coffee makers. The Contoso Coffee apps for Business Central add demo data that you can use to learn how to use the Service Management capabilities in Business Central.

This app provides several elements that are used for the main walkthroughs:

• Resources with assigned skills
• Items configured to create service items
• Loaner items
• Standard service codes
• Fault and resolution samples

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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 sixth of the new functionality in the Legislation section is VAT posting in General Ledger setup.

You can limit the VAT dates for posting independently from the posting dates.

Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview: Nov 2023
General Availability: Dec 2023

Feature Details

Currently, when you use the VAT Date functionality, the validation is the same for the Posting Date in the General Ledger Setup and the User Setup. This means you can’t backdate VAT entries without opening prior posting periods and sometimes, the Posting Date and VAT Date range isn’t the same.

This feature introduces new separate setups to control the VAT Date independent of the Posting Date. You can configure the VAT Date range in the VAT Setup page using the following options:

• Allow VAT Date From
• Allow VAT Date To

The same option will exist on the User Setup page and will extend options for configuration for users.

My Opinion

This is a feature which is very much needed to ensure that transactions can be recorded with the correct VAT dates.

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 fifth of the new functionality in the Legislation section is Start faster with refreshed and enhanced setup data.

To help businesses quickly get up and running with Business Central, Microsoft provide preconfigured setup data that enables customers to use features right away.

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

Feature Details

This release provides updated setup data for the following countries and regions:

• Australia (AU)
• Canada (CA)
• Germany (DE)
• Netherlands (NL)
• United Kingdom (GB)
• United States (US)

Microsoft have updated the following setup data for those country versions:

• Chart of accounts
• General posting groups and setup
• Inventory posting groups and setup
• Jobs posting group
• Tax/VAT/GST posting groups and setup

My Opinion

The setup data can be a very useful way to get the basics in place when configuring a system (although I generally don’t use this approach), so it is good to see the setup data being maintained.