At the recent Directions EMEA 2023 confernece Microsoft gave a preview of some of the functionality slated for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 1.
The functionality has been broken down into four areas:
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Since I started working with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central last year, I’ve also been learning some of the add-ons which are commonly used. One of those add-ons is Payment Management from Continia Software, which will launch in the UK as soon as it gets clearance from the FCA.
They seem pretty well organised and have a Continia Learn which is very much along the same lines as Microsoft Learn; you can also do an exam for each of their products which results in a credential which you can register with Credly.
I passed the Document Capture certification in March and the Expense Management one in October, and have, earlier this month when I had some free time to go through the training materials, passed the one for Payment Management:
I think next on my list is going to be some Power Automate exams from Microsoft. I still need to have a look at which ones fit my role best, but if anyone has any suggestions, do please let me know.
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The tenth of the new functionality in the User experiences section is Scan barcodes with Business Central mobile app for iOS and Android.
The barcode scanner control increases warehouse users’ productivity as they can scan barcodes using the device camera or even the dedicated barcode scanner. This feature also opens scenarios for partners to create more advanced experiences using a barcode scanner.
Enabled for: Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
Public Preview: Sep 2023
General Availability: Oct 2023
The new barcode scanning feature supports three different scenarios, each with varying levels of complexity. The scenarios range from simple user interface (UI) features to more advanced approaches that cater to ISVs.
ExtendedDatatype property in AL code must be set to Barcode. Pages with such fields, which are only supported for text and code data types, will automatically display a barcode scanning button in the UI, enabling scanning via the device camera. This scanning is highly efficient and responsive, featuring mobile OS level processing and supporting the most well-known 1D and 2D barcode formats. Once a barcode is scanned, its value is entered in the field on the page, and the focus moves to the next quick-entry field on the page. This feature is supported on both iOS and Android platforms.
As I said in the article on the Print and Scan Barcodes new feature, adding barcode scanning in by default into Business Central is a very good thing; it’s nice to see these apps for Android and iOS to complement the support for scanning itself.
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The ninth of the new functionality in the User experiences section is Mark fields as read-only when customizing UI.
Business Central offers a powerful suite of user interface (UI) customization tools that empowers customers to quickly optimize the experience for individual users, for each role, or for the entire organization. Customers often ask their supporting partner to simplify how data is presented on a page, to improve readability and optimize data entry. Now, customers can self-serve by making fields non-editable directly in the UI, adding to the existing UI simplification capabilities such as hiding or moving fields on the page.
Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview: Sep 2023
General Availability: Oct 2023
Business Central now includes the following:
To experience making fields read-only, sign in to Business Central and follow this example (or similar):
This is a very welcome enhancement which, due to its simplicity, I am surprised wasn’t already in Business Central. It’s been quite a common request from clients when showing them how to personalise pages by adding, moving or removing fields, to also set them to disabled. Unfortunately, so far we’ve had to say it can’t be done; fortunately, with this enhancement we can now show them how to make fields read-only.
The Supported Upgrade Paths to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Releases document from Microsoft was updated with a note in late October to reflect a change to the upgrade path for Business Central 2019 (v14), starting from 2025 release Wave 1 (v26).
This change will affect the upgrade to Business Central 2025 Release Wave 1 (v26) which will now require you to upgrade from Business Central 2019 (v14) to Business Central 2024 Release Wave 2 (v25), before doing a second upgrade to 2025 Release Wave 1 (v26).
There is also a note that upgrading from minor updates between the release updates might not always be supported; you need to check the Dynamics 365 Business Central Upgrade Compatibility Matrix to check if the version you’re on is compatible and upgrade first to a supported release before continuing the upgrade to a later release.
As time goes by, I expect that the upgrade path for older versions continues to become longer with more versions needing to upgrade to an intermediate version before upgrading to the most recent release.
This is probably more the case with versions of Microsoft Dynamics NAV, of which all are no longer supported, but will impact earlier versions of Business Central.
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 of the new functionality in the Service and platform section is Service-to-service apps and device license users can schedule tasks.
In typical commerce, point of sale, and warehousing scenarios, where there’s a high volume of transactions and workloads to be processed by service-to-service apps or device license users, the ability to schedule tasks and execute them in background sessions can greatly improve throughput and reduce risk of errors.
Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview: –
General Availability: Oct 2023
Scheduling tasks has been enabled for app (S2S) and device license users since the updates 21.2 and 22.5, respectively. In situations that required processing many transactions and workloads—such as posting sales orders, printing receipts, and updating inventory—S2S apps and device license users can now increase throughput by parking these workloads as scheduled tasks that will be automatically and asynchronously run later in background sessions. In this way, they avoid waiting for the completion of these workloads and reduce the risk of errors, timeouts, and performance issues that may occur if processing these workloads synchronously.
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The of the new functionality in the Service and platform section is New operational limits on scheduled tasks and web requests improve throughput.
The new operational limits will improve protection, ensure fairness among users, and inspire elasticity and scalability of their service, while providing higher throughput for environments with many users.
Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview: Nov 2023
General Availability: –
Business Central online handles diverse customer workloads with varying load patterns based on seasonality and many other factors, such as the number of active users, external integrations, BI and analytics tasks, and more. To manage these workloads efficiently, Microsoft have built a highly automated system that performs traffic management, load balancing and distribution, scheduled task execution, and capacity allocation based on the factors mentioned. Microsoft continuously improve the elasticity and scalability of their service with more insights to provide the highest performance and throughput for all customers and their workloads.
Microsoft are excited to announce some of these improvements in this release, specifically their increased operational limits. The new limits will significantly benefit their customers with large, complex environments that have many users, scheduled tasks, or web service integrations. They substantially raise the number of web service requests that can be submitted, as well as the number of scheduled tasks and web service requests that can be concurrently processed in each environment.
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The of the new functionality in the Service and platform section is Synchronize multiple Business Central companies with the same Dataverse environment.
Unlock scenarios where multiple companies must access data in the same Dataverse environment. This enables partners to build new experiences when working in more than one company.
Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview: Sep 2023
General Availability: Oct 2023
When you set up the connection to Dataverse, you can select several Business Central companies from one Dataverse environment.
You can enable multicompany synchronization for each table mapping. On the Integration Table Mappings page, select the Enable Multicompany Synchronization checkbox. Enabling multicompany synchronization has the following effects:
You can open coupled records in different companies using the Open in Business Central action in Dataverse or Dynamics 365 Sales.
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The fourth of the new functionality in the Reporting and data analysis section is Share a data analysis with a co-worker.
Data analysis mode lets you calculate and analyze data directly from a list page, without having to run a report or switch to another application, such as Excel. After you’ve prepared an analysis on a tab, you can easily communicate your findings with your colleagues by sharing a link to the tab.
Enabled for:
Public Preview: Sep 2023
General Availability: Oct 2023
Data analysis mode was introduced as a public preview feature in 2023 release wave 1, and provided a new way to interact with data on list pages.
In this release, Microsoft are taking data analysis mode even further:
When a user clicks a shared link, the page opens in data analysis mode and the analysis is created as an analysis tab.
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 Reporting and data analysis section is Analyze, group, and pivot data on lists.
End users and data analysts can analyze data from lists directly in the client without the need to open the page in Excel or run a report.
The ability to analyze data directly in lists raises the bar for what you can do without having to switch applications, while still allowing customers and partners to do more in report objects, Excel, Power BI, or other data analysis applications.
Enabled for:
Public Preview: –
General Availability: Oct 2023
Analysis mode is a new way of interacting with data on lists. Instead of running reports using different options and filters, you can simply add multiple tabs that represent different tasks or views on the data. Examples could be "My customers," "Follow-up items," "Recently added vendors," "Sales statistics," or any other view you want.
When you’re ready to analyze data on a list page (where you might have filtered data using a view or filter pane), simply switch to analysis mode:
