Day: October 17, 2024

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 12th of the new functionality in the Development section is remove friction when working with external app dependencies.

Resellers who develop per-tenant extensions for customers and publishers who create AppSource apps commonly build on the work of other publishers, and thereby take a dependency on these. In order to develop or test, they need access to the AppSource apps they depend on.

Today, this involves a tedious manual process where resellers and publishers with dependencies must contact publishers owning the applications they depend on and ask for symbols to develop against or runtime packages to test with. This is not only required once, but continuously as new versions of the Business Central first-party applications and the publishers’ applications emerge, making the process time-consuming and error-prone.

In this version Microsoft plan to unblock developing and compiling against external applications and test in online sandboxes.

Enabled for: Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
Public Preview: Oct 2024
General Availability: Oct 2024

Feature Details

In this release Microsoft add support for resellers and publishers to download symbols for AppSource applications to develop against, providing a public NuGet feed with packages containing symbols for AppSource applications. If you are using AL-Go for GitHub, then it will automatically locate and download these symbols during the build. You can also take advantage of AL-Go for GitHub to run tests in online sandboxes.

My Opinion

This sounds like a very useful enhancement, although I’m not too involved on the development side of Business Central.

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 14th of the new functionality in the Country and regional section is enable use of other currencies – Czechia.

Recent Czech legislation allows Czech companies to determine a functional currency and record their accounting in a currency other than Czech. It’s now possible to use a foreign currency for corporate accounting and to use the Additional Currency Reporting functionality for other records and reports that must be in Czech currency.

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

Feature Details

The new amendment to Act No. 563/1991 Coll., on Accounting, effective from January 1, 2024, introduces the concept of functional currency as the currency of accounting. Functional currency means the currency of the primary economic environment in which the entity operates and may be other than the Czech currency. The functional currency of an entity can be determined on the basis of the criteria for determining the functional currency under IFRS as governed by European Union law.

If the company decides to implement accounting in a foreign currency, then for other records and reports that must be in Czech currency, it uses the Additional Reporting Currencies functionality for reporting. However, this only deals with the creation of material items and VAT items, but not with subsequent reporting. All VAT reporting must be done in Czech currency (CZK), so the reporting functionalities have been adapted as follows:

• Preview of the VAT statement
• VAT control report
• VAT control report statistics
• VIES Declaration
• Export of the VAT statement
• Export of VAT control report
• Export of the VIES Declaration
• Printing the VAT statement (Report 11769)
• Printing of the Recording Obligation (Basis for VAT) and List of Tax Documents (Report 11756)
• Test report of the VAT Control Report (Report 31103)
• Test report of the VIES Declaration (Report 31064)

New VAT rate to additional reporting currency (Document Currency/Additional Reporting Currency) fields have been added to the purchase and sales documents to allow the currency rate to be adjusted if necessary. Similar functionality has been added to purchase and sales advances. The printing of document reports has also been modified.

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 13th of the new functionality in the Country and regional section is sales advance from the project – Czechia.

Creating Sales advances from Project can save users time and effort by reducing the need to manually enter data. Sales advances can be created for the entire project or only for a project task.

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

Feature Details

The process improves productivity and efficiency by allowing you to quickly and easily create sales advances for the entire project or only for a project task.

The project number is entered in the sales advance invoice and the project task number is also entered in the advance line. This link between the project and the advance allows you to determine the amounts of the advances with a link to the project.

However, there won’t be a linking (applying) of advances as with sales orders to ensure that the advance is automatically deducted when the invoice is created from the project. A factbox is added to the project card to show the number of advances created from the project and the amounts of advances total, to be paid and to be used.