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New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 2: Use Advanced Settings In The Power Bi Connector

Tuesday 24th Sep 2024Tuesday 17th Sep 2024 Ian Grieve4 minute read0 comment

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 3rd of the new functionality in the Reporting and data analysis section is use advanced settings in the Power BI connector.

Advanced users of Power Query can now fine-tune the use of the Power BI connector for Business Central in their semantic models. The introduction of new parameters to the Power BI connector for Business Central enhances the flexibility, performance, and user experience of data integration and analysis, while still ensuring the default values are optimal in the majority of cases. These parameters empower users with more control over their data interactions, leading to more efficient data processing, better performance, and an improved user experience.

Enabled for: Users by admins, makers, or analysts
Public Preview: –
General Availability: Oct 2024

Feature Details

Starting in this release, the Power BI connector for Business Central now supports several advanced properties that you can set in your Power Query queries:

AcceptLanguage: This parameter allows you to specify preferred languages for responses, ensuring users receive messages and translatable strings in their desired language. This improves user satisfaction and makes the data more accessible and relevant.
ODataMaxPageSize: By limiting the number of entities per results page, this parameter allows for more flexibility when connecting to large datasets or using complex queries. It ensures efficient and responsive data retrieval, leading to faster insights and decision-making. You can’t exceed the maximum page size defined on the service.
Timeout: This parameter defines the maximum duration for a request before cancellation. It helps manage system resources effectively and prevents long-running queries from impacting overall system performance. Users experience minimal delays and interruptions, ensuring a smoother workflow. You can’t exceed the timeout defined on the service.
UseReadOnlyReplica: This parameter determines whether requests target the primary database or a read-only replica. Offloading read operations from the primary database can significantly boost performance. This leads to faster data retrieval and improved system stability, especially during peak usage times.

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New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 2
Auto-Apply Templates When You Synchronize Data With Dataverse
Use New Reports And Demo Data for Financial Reporting
Manage Subscription Billing and Revenue and Expense Recognition
Integrate Field Service with Service Management
Archive Service Management Documents
View Item Availability in Field Service Work Orders
Export Posted Sales Invoices to Shopify
Replenish Items for Projects
Reconcile Payment Transactions in Shopify with Invoices
Use Directed Put-Away and Pick Warehouses with Projects
Capture Data from E-Docs with Azure AI Document Intelligence
Add Invoice and Receipt Documents to E-Documents in Bulk
Import, Export Product Info Using Shopify Metafields
Define Shipping Information For Shopify Shipping Fees
Enable Locations In Shopify Refunds
See Improved Usability For Service And Projects
Allow More Than One User To Post Warehouse Entries at a Time
Add An Item As A Shopify Variant
Use Excel Reports For Consolidation And Fixed Assets
Synchronize Product Translations To Shopify
Use Specific Prices And Discounts When Synchronizing Prices In Shopify
Add Extended Text To Project Planning Lines
Use A Default Quantity Of 1 For Accounts On Documents
Suggest Number Series with Copilot
Chat with Copilot and Learn to Use Installed Add-On Apps
Complete Bank Account Reconciliation Faster with Copilot
Create Product Information Faster with Copilot
Summarize Any Record with Copilot
Experience Enhancements to Analysis Assist with Copilot
Start Using Copilot Without Having to Set Things Up
Create Sales Lines Easily with Copilot
Automate Tests for Your Copilot Extensions with the Business Central Test Toolkit
Start Creating Power Automate Flows With Copilot
Raise Awareness Of Copilot Actions On Card, Document, And Listplus Pages
Display Errors And Messages In Copilot Prompt Dialogs
Experience Enhancements To Chat With Copilot
Get Usage Telemetry On Copilot Extensions As An ISV
Start Using Integration with IRS for 1099 Submissions
Start Using E-Documents Framework Localized for Germany
Enable Additional Countries and Regions
Show Features With Demo Dataset For Czechia
Deferral Accounting – Posting The Original Amount As Correction – Czechia
Posting Of Alternative Customer-Vendor Posting Groups – Czechia
Calculate And Post Vat Settlement By Activity Code – Italy
Advance Letters With Reverse Charge – Czechia
Vat Return Feature Now Available – Czechia
Include Employee Transactions In Exchange Rate Adjustment Report – Czechia
Improve Vat Reporting And Adjustments – Czechia
Allocations Functionality In Cash Desks – Czechia
Sales Advance From The Project – Czechia
Enable Use Of Other Currencies – Czechia
Set Up Easier In-Client Performance Profiling with Rules
Use the Ternary Operator when Coding in the AL Language
Pull Extension Source from GitHub when Opening Visual Studio Code from the Web Client
Use the 'This' Keyword for CodeUnit Self Reference
Restore Extensions if Publishing from Visual Studio Code Fails
Use Improved Features for Report Documents
Package Resources in Extensions and Access from AL
Run Code Action for 'With' for File, Project, or Workspace
Type Testing and Casting Operators for Interfaces
Extend Al Interfaces
Extend and Customize Profiles from Other Extensions
Remove Friction When Working With External App Dependencies
Specify And Use Full-Text Search Indexes On Table Fields
Manage Environment Updates More Flexibly
Migrate Record Links and Notes with Cloud Migration Tooling
Manage Per-Tenant Extensions in Admin Center
View App Compatibility with Future Versions in Admin Center
Get Notified About Issues with Job Queue Background Processing
Get List of Manageable Environments for Microsoft Entra Apps
Support IPv6 for Enhanced Security and Scalability
Encrypt Data At-Rest With Customer-Managed Encryption Key
Get External Notifications When Job Queue Entries Fail
Use E-Documents with Power Automate
Use Multiple VAT Numbers for a Customer
Achieve Sustainability Scorecards and Goals
Navigate the Sustainability Manager Role Center with Ease
Add Attachments When You Send Electronic Documents
Record Greenhouse Gas Emissions Using Purchase Invoices
Report Sustainability Entries with Financial Reports
Use New Service Providers in the E-Documents Framework
Purchase Carbon Credits
Enable Internal Carbon Fee Calculation in Sustainability
Track Sustainability Certificates For Items And Vendors
Use Multiple Subcategories For One Sustainability Account
Use Embedded Power Bi Reports Out Of The Box
Do Ad Hoc Analysis On Fixed Assets, Projects, And Services
Use Advanced Settings In The Power Bi Connector
Use Built-In Named Formulas In Excel Layouts
Access Keys with Key Tips In More Languages
Use Drag and Drop On File Upload Dialog to Attach Multiple Files
Resize Columns Even when Personalization isn't Enabled
Change The Data Search Method In Lists

New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 2: Do Ad Hoc Analysis On Fixed Assets, Projects, And Services

Tuesday 24th Sep 2024Tuesday 17th Sep 2024 Ian Grieve3 minute read0 comment

The 2nd of the new functionality in the Reporting and data analysis section is do ad hoc analysis on fixed assets, projects, and services.

Do reporting and ad hoc data analysis on transactions from fixed assets, projects, and service management: group, summarize, and pivot data to give you the insights you need without the need to run a report.

Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview: –
General Availability: Oct 2024

Feature Details

In 2023 release wave 2, we introduced the ability to do data analysis on an AL query. Now, 2024 release wave 2 has out-of-the-box queries designed to make ad hoc analysis easier for fixed assets, projects, and services.

Many of the first examples are ledger entry tables (such as fixed assets ledger entries or project ledger entries) joined to relevant tables (typically the tables where a code field on the ledger can be joined) where additional fields can enrich the analysis scenarios that people typically do on ledger entry list pages.
Example: fixed assets ad hoc analysis

The fixed assets ad hoc analysis query joins data from fixed asset ledger entries to master data tables, such as the Fixed Asset, Fixed Asset Class, Fixed Asset Subclass, Fixed Asset Location, and Depreciation Book tables.

When you open the query in the Business Central client, you can slice and dice data about fixed assets any way you like. The following image shows the options that are available.

Screenshot showing analysis on fixed assets

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New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 2
Auto-Apply Templates When You Synchronize Data With Dataverse
Use New Reports And Demo Data for Financial Reporting
Manage Subscription Billing and Revenue and Expense Recognition
Integrate Field Service with Service Management
Archive Service Management Documents
View Item Availability in Field Service Work Orders
Export Posted Sales Invoices to Shopify
Replenish Items for Projects
Reconcile Payment Transactions in Shopify with Invoices
Use Directed Put-Away and Pick Warehouses with Projects
Capture Data from E-Docs with Azure AI Document Intelligence
Add Invoice and Receipt Documents to E-Documents in Bulk
Import, Export Product Info Using Shopify Metafields
Define Shipping Information For Shopify Shipping Fees
Enable Locations In Shopify Refunds
See Improved Usability For Service And Projects
Allow More Than One User To Post Warehouse Entries at a Time
Add An Item As A Shopify Variant
Use Excel Reports For Consolidation And Fixed Assets
Synchronize Product Translations To Shopify
Use Specific Prices And Discounts When Synchronizing Prices In Shopify
Add Extended Text To Project Planning Lines
Use A Default Quantity Of 1 For Accounts On Documents
Suggest Number Series with Copilot
Chat with Copilot and Learn to Use Installed Add-On Apps
Complete Bank Account Reconciliation Faster with Copilot
Create Product Information Faster with Copilot
Summarize Any Record with Copilot
Experience Enhancements to Analysis Assist with Copilot
Start Using Copilot Without Having to Set Things Up
Create Sales Lines Easily with Copilot
Automate Tests for Your Copilot Extensions with the Business Central Test Toolkit
Start Creating Power Automate Flows With Copilot
Raise Awareness Of Copilot Actions On Card, Document, And Listplus Pages
Display Errors And Messages In Copilot Prompt Dialogs
Experience Enhancements To Chat With Copilot
Get Usage Telemetry On Copilot Extensions As An ISV
Start Using Integration with IRS for 1099 Submissions
Start Using E-Documents Framework Localized for Germany
Enable Additional Countries and Regions
Show Features With Demo Dataset For Czechia
Deferral Accounting – Posting The Original Amount As Correction – Czechia
Posting Of Alternative Customer-Vendor Posting Groups – Czechia
Calculate And Post Vat Settlement By Activity Code – Italy
Advance Letters With Reverse Charge – Czechia
Vat Return Feature Now Available – Czechia
Include Employee Transactions In Exchange Rate Adjustment Report – Czechia
Improve Vat Reporting And Adjustments – Czechia
Allocations Functionality In Cash Desks – Czechia
Sales Advance From The Project – Czechia
Enable Use Of Other Currencies – Czechia
Set Up Easier In-Client Performance Profiling with Rules
Use the Ternary Operator when Coding in the AL Language
Pull Extension Source from GitHub when Opening Visual Studio Code from the Web Client
Use the 'This' Keyword for CodeUnit Self Reference
Restore Extensions if Publishing from Visual Studio Code Fails
Use Improved Features for Report Documents
Package Resources in Extensions and Access from AL
Run Code Action for 'With' for File, Project, or Workspace
Type Testing and Casting Operators for Interfaces
Extend Al Interfaces
Extend and Customize Profiles from Other Extensions
Remove Friction When Working With External App Dependencies
Specify And Use Full-Text Search Indexes On Table Fields
Manage Environment Updates More Flexibly
Migrate Record Links and Notes with Cloud Migration Tooling
Manage Per-Tenant Extensions in Admin Center
View App Compatibility with Future Versions in Admin Center
Get Notified About Issues with Job Queue Background Processing
Get List of Manageable Environments for Microsoft Entra Apps
Support IPv6 for Enhanced Security and Scalability
Encrypt Data At-Rest With Customer-Managed Encryption Key
Get External Notifications When Job Queue Entries Fail
Use E-Documents with Power Automate
Use Multiple VAT Numbers for a Customer
Achieve Sustainability Scorecards and Goals
Navigate the Sustainability Manager Role Center with Ease
Add Attachments When You Send Electronic Documents
Record Greenhouse Gas Emissions Using Purchase Invoices
Report Sustainability Entries with Financial Reports
Use New Service Providers in the E-Documents Framework
Purchase Carbon Credits
Enable Internal Carbon Fee Calculation in Sustainability
Track Sustainability Certificates For Items And Vendors
Use Multiple Subcategories For One Sustainability Account
Use Embedded Power Bi Reports Out Of The Box
Do Ad Hoc Analysis On Fixed Assets, Projects, And Services
Use Advanced Settings In The Power Bi Connector
Use Built-In Named Formulas In Excel Layouts
Access Keys with Key Tips In More Languages
Use Drag and Drop On File Upload Dialog to Attach Multiple Files
Resize Columns Even when Personalization isn't Enabled
Change The Data Search Method In Lists

In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (Power Automate Actions), how do I… Use the “Delete Record V3” Action

Tuesday 24th Sep 2024Tuesday 17th Sep 2024 Ian Grieve2 minute read0 comment

This article is part of the In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (Power Automate Actions), how do I… series, a sub-series of the In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (Power Automate), 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.

There are a number of actions available in Power Automate for Business Central which allow specific actions against the data of Business Central to be performed from within Power Automate.

The 7th action which is available is the Delete record (V3) one which will delete records in Business Central.

Within a flow, click the add action button; search for Business Central and select the Business Central icon (make sure you select the SaaS one, which is a dark colour instead of the on-premises one which is mainly white):