Author: Ian Grieve

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 1.

The 6th of the new functionality in the User experiences section is enhancements to the user experience.

Customers benefit from a continuously evolving Web client that keeps users productive. Along with the major features Microsoft are releasing in this wave, the user experience in Business Central also contains minor enhancements. Sometimes, it’s the small changes that make all the difference for Microsoft’s users.

Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview: –
General Availability:  Apr 2, 2024

Feature Details

This wave includes the following enhancements to Business Central’s Web client:

• Action bar on lists and worksheets make better use of space in the action bar. The actions to search or analyze a list of records no longer display a caption alongside the icon. Even with the addition of the Copilot action on some pages, the overall use of horizontal space is reduced.
  
• The Date picker in the calendar dropdown in date fields is updated to make it easier to explore and select dates in other months and years.
  

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This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 1.

The 5th of the new functionality in the User experiences section is boost productivity with the modern action bar.

You can tailor the action bar to fit the needs of your industry, company, or yourself. Add actions that you want to make available in an easily discoverable and consistent way across the product for new users to quickly learn the product, or tailor it to your business-specific needs for proficient users.

Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview: –
General Availability:  Apr 5, 2024

Feature Details

In 2022 release wave 2 Microsoft introduced the modern action bar feature. Until now, the modern action bar was an optional feature you could turn on by choosing All Users in the Enabled for column on the Feature Management page. With 2024 release wave 1, the modern action bar is automatically enabled for all users.

When you sign in to 2024 release wave 1, the following callout explains the changes Microsoft have made in the action bar.

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This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 1.

The 11th of the new functionality in the Governance and administration section is experience the new embedded AppSource marketplace page.

Microsoft AppSource is an online store that contains thousands of business applications and services built by industry-leading software providers. It’s a platform that makes it easy for customers to discover and try new apps, get customer leads, and gain usage insights for trials, deployments, and growth for customer accounts. In addition to the primary AppSource marketplace site, Business Central has had an embedded AppSource experience inside the client, used to browse and install apps directly from within the client. Since this option has been deprecated, Microsoft have built a new replacement Microsoft AppSource Apps page in the client..

Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview:  Apr 1, 2024
General Availability:  Apr 1, 2024

Feature Details

The old embedded AppSource experience has been deprecated by the AppSource team, and replaced with APIs enabling custom experiences inside consuming products. Given its widespread use in Business Central, to browse and install apps, Microsoft have replaced the old embed experience with a new Microsoft AppSource Apps page.

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This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 1.

The 10th of the new functionality in the Governance and administration section is use Premium license to sign in to environment with Essentials licenses.

In some Business Central configurations, users who have Premium licenses also need to access companies that use only the capabilities available for the Essentials license. This avoids duplicating users to match Business Central’s requirement of not mixing Essentials and Premium licenses within the same environment.

Enabled for: Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
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General Availability:  Apr 5, 2024

Feature Details

In general, Business Central doesn’t let you mix different license types within the same company. If you’re using the capabilities that the Essentials license provides, up until 2024 release wave 1, users with a Premium license couldn’t sign in. This is counter-intuitive, given that the capabilities of the Premium license also include the capabilities of the Essentials license. Currently, Essentials and Premium users can’t coexist in the same environment. The license with the most capabilities determines the experience.

With 2024 release wave 1, a Premium license user can sign in to a company where the User Experience field is set to Essentials on the Company Information page. However, the Premium user can’t use any of the features that the Premium license provides. This doesn’t work in the opposite direction. Users who have an Essentials license can’t sign in to a company where the User Experience is set to Premium on the Company Information page.

My Opinion

I’m still learning about the licensing on Business Central and this wasn’t one I had come across. It appears to be a restriction which, Microsoft acknowledge, didn’t make sense to enforce so it is good to see the restriction being removed.

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 1.

The 9th of the new functionality in the Governance and administration section is analyze telemetry events across browser and server for a session or user.

Telemetry events emitted from the browser/client have been enhanced to make it even easier to troubleshoot performance and stability issues.

Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview:  Mar 31, 2024
General Availability:  Apr 2, 2024

Feature Details

The following events have been improved in browser/client telemetry:

• Pageviews (CL0001)
• Error message quality votes (CL0002)
• Client-side action (CL0003)

For each of these events, the columns user_Id and session_Id are now aligned with events from the server. This means that you can now track all events for a session or user across browser/client and server.

Learn more about Business Central telemetry at Monitoring and Analyzing Telemetry.

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 1.

The 10th of the new functionality in the Development section is Define tooltips on table fields.

Developers can now define tooltips on the table level. Any page that uses the field will now inherit the tooltip, making reuse much easier in apps and extensions.

Enabled for: Users by admins, makers, or analysts
Public Preview:  Apr 1, 2024
General Availability:  Apr 2, 2024

Feature Details

Prior to this release, a developer who needed a tooltip to appear on a field—for example, shown on a card and also on a list page—would need to duplicate the tooltip in those two page objects.

With this release, developers can just define the tooltip on the table level and all pages that show the field will automatically have the tooltip available. On a page, it’s possible to override a tooltip defined on the table level by specifying it at the page level.

The AL Language extension for Visual Studio Code now also comes with code actions that can move tooltips down from a page to the source table underneath.

My Opinion

This sounds like it could be a good time saving enhancement when creating tooltips.

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 1.

The 9th of the new functionality in the Development section is use cookies in HTTP calls from Business Central.

In scenarios where third-party HTTP endpoints require cookie customization, this can now be built into Business Central apps and extensions.

Enabled for: Users by admins, makers, or analysts
Public Preview:  Mar 1, 2024
General Availability:  Apr 2, 2024

Feature Details

Microsoft are adding official support for cookies to the HttpClient datatype. This allows AL developers to efficiently send and receive cookies when sending HTTP requests.

A new Cookie datatype has been introduced, as well as several AL interfaces to handle cookies:

• UseResponseCookies AL interface to the HttpClient data type enabling and disabling caching for server cookies.
• Cookie data type representing a cookie object.
• AL interfaces to retrieve cookies from an HttpResponseMessage.
• AL interfaces to retrieve, add to, and remove cookies from an HttpRequestMessage.

Developers can choose to automatically reuse response cookies, handle cookies manually, or a mix of both.

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 1.

The 10th of the new functionality in the Country and regional section is use Excel layouts for Czech reports.

You can use Excel to create and edit layouts for reports in the Czech version.

Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview: –
General Availability:  Apr 1, 2024

Feature Details

Excel layouts work the same way as Word and RDLC layouts in that you can edit them and then save your changes in Business Central.

With Excel layouts for Business Central reports, you can create and edit report layouts using the full palette of capabilities in Excel, such as sliders, diagrams, charts, and pivot tables.

You can create and edit the layout of the following Excel reports in the Czech version:

• 1001 "Inventory Valuation"
• 11715 "Open Cust. Entries to Date CZL"
• 11716 "Open Vend. Entries to Date CZL"
• 11757 "Documentation for VAT CZL"
• 31019 "Sales Advance Letters CZZ"
• 31024 "Purch. Advance Letters CZZ"
• 31026 "Sales Adv. Letters Recap. CZZ"
• 31027 "Purch. Adv. Letters Recap. CZZ"
• 31130 "Open G/L Entries To Date CZA"

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 1.

The 9th of the new functionality in the Country and regional section is Print QR codes on sales invoices in the Czech version.

It’s important to make it easy for your customers to pay their bills. To that end, customers can make payments for sales documents by simply using a QR code.

Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview: –
General Availability:  Apr 1, 2024

Feature Details

When you print a sales invoice, sales advance, and service invoice, you can include payment data in the form of a QR code.

You can turn on the QR code payment printing functionality in your sales and receivables settings. You can also make the same setting on payment methods, where it’s set for the types of payments for which to use the QR code printing. For sales invoices that customers will pay with cash or credit, you can turn off QR code printing.

QR codes for payments only print on sales invoices if the value in the Balance field on the Sales Invoice Header table is not zero.

QR code printing is available for the following reports:

• 31018 Sales – invoice with advance payment
• 31189 Sales invoice
• 31197 Service invoice
• 31014 Sales – advance invoice

A new notification is added to sales invoices, sales orders, service invoices, and advance invoices to fill in the IBAN Bank Account field. The check runs only if you turn on the Print QR Payment toggle on the Sales & Receivables Setup page and the payment method from the sales document is set up to print QR codes.

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 1.

The 8th of the new functionality in the Country and regional section is allow more extendability of advance payments in the Czech version.

Tailor advance payments to address the specific needs of your business.

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Public Preview: –
General Availability:  Apr 1, 2024

Feature Details

Historically, it’s been a challenge to extend advance payments, but Microsoft are changing that by adding new extendability points.

Microsoft have redesigned the code to programmatically separate dialogs and posting, added a number of events, and adjusted permissions to better set direct and indirect permissions. In practice, the functionality remains the same, the improvements are technical changes in the code.