This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 2 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 2.
The 1st of the new functionality in the Copilot and AI innovation section is suggest number series with Copilot.
Getting started fast on new implementation and recurring maintenance of certain aspects of Business Central setup saves companies time and money. Copilot can reduce the time it takes to set up initial number series and make their maintenance quick and painless. For example, when updating year or month based numbering many draft and posted documents in Business Central.
Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview: Oct 2024
General Availability: –
Feature Details
You can use Copilot for faster creation and updates of number series on the No. Series page. The Generate action opens the Generate No. Series with Copilot dialog, where you can enter a prompt to create new, or modify existing, number series.
Number series setup creation
To help you write the prompt, the Create new action in the Generate No. Series with Copilot dialog provides sets of prompt guides that you can use as inspiration.
When you chooseGenerate, Copilot creates proposals for one or more number series, and you can review the proposals in No. Series Proposals view. You can remove the proposals that Copilot generated that you don’t like, and edit the ones you do. When you’re ready, you can choose Keep it to add or update a proposal. In addition, Copilot updates various setup pages with the number series you decided to keep.
Number series updates
In the Generate No. Series with Copilot dialog, Modify existing offers sets of prompt guides to help you write a prompt to update an existing number series.
When you choose Generate, Copilot updates one or more number series proposals, and you can review the proposals in the No. Series proposals view. You can remove the proposals Copilot generated, and edit the ones you like. When you’re ready, you can choose Keep it to add or update a proposal.
Public preview notes
This feature is available as a production-ready preview for production and sandbox environments with any country localization of Business Central and is available for any user language. Production-ready previews are subject to supplemental terms of use. For more information, go to Supplemental terms of use for Dynamics 365 preview.
While the feature is in preview, it works only in English language.
Geographic areas
This feature will be released into the following Microsoft Azure geographic areas:
- Germany
- Norway
- Singapore
- South Africa
- Switzerland
- United Arab Emirates
- United States
- Europe
- Asia Pacific
- United Kingdom
- Australia
- Brazil
- Canada
- India
- Japan
- France
- Korea
My Opinion
I can’t help feel that this is one of the shiny nice to demo features which is of limited use in the real world, where you usually want to configure number series to pick up where the previous system stopped.
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