Author: Ian Grieve

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 19th of the new functionality in the Application section is synchronize product translations to Shopify.

Automatically synchronizing translations from Business Central to Shopify guarantees consistent product descriptions and details across various languages. Offering customers product information in their native language enhances accessibility and satisfaction, which can boost conversion rates and foster customer loyalty.

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

Feature Details

To include translations to the product synchronization, follow these steps:

1. Choose the Tell Me icon, enter Shopify shops, and choose the related link.
2. Select the shop to open the Shopify Shop Card page.
3. To open the Shopify Languages page, choose the Languages action.
4. To import languages enabled on Shopify, choose the Refresh action. Notice that the primary language isn’t be listed. For the primary language, continue to use the Language Code field in the Shopify Shop Card.
5. For each language you want to include ino synchronization, fill in the Language Code field and turn on the Sync translations toggle.

That’s it. Translations are included every time you run the Sync Product task either manually or by using the job queue.

More information

• A new Shopify permission (scope) is needed: read_locales. You must request a new access token.
• The first export of items, initiated by the Add item to Shopify action, doesn’t include translations. You need to run Sync product and turn on the Can Update Shopify Products toggle.
• Marketing text is only added for the primary language.
• Extended texts are added for each language, plus extended texts where the All Languages toggle is turned on.
• Attributes are added for each language. If a translation is missing, the primary language is used.
• Item translations are added for each language if a translation is defined.
• Variant translations aren’t used because the connector only exports the variant code, and not its description.

Extensibility impact

The CreateProductBody procedure in the Product Export codeunit takes language codes as parameters so it can be used for each language. Now this procedure is called multiple times according to the list of selected languages. Because it contains the OnBeforeCreateProductBodyHtml and OnAfterCreateProductBodyHtml events, those events are now triggered multiple times per item. The events now include the language code as a parameter, so you can skip translation or add your own logic.

I was working on a client project recently to help them implement Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. We encountered an error when using a configuration package to import the customers opening balances as sales invoices.

I haven’t yet covered configuration packages in my In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, how do I… series, but should be doing so fairly soon. Configuration Packages, formerly known as RapidStart, is a tool which allows you to import (or export) data to Business Central from a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.

We had created a configuration package to update the Gen. Journal Line (81) table which holds the sales journals, selected the fields to import, populated the sheet and run the import, but when we validated the file we were presented with three errors:

Attempted to divide by zero

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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 18th of the new functionality in the Application section is use Excel reports for consolidation and fixed assets.

Excel reports give you the underlying data that they’re based on, so that you can reformat the data to build a custom report—for example, to get a specific insight or for troubleshooting.

Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview:  Sep 2, 2024
General Availability: Oct 2024

Feature Details

In this release Microsoft have added four Excel report layouts that cover the consolidation and fixed assets areas:

• Consolidated Trial Balance (Preview)
• Fixed Asset Details (Preview)
• Fixed Asset Analysis (Preview)
• Fixed Asset Projected Value (Preview)

The report layouts are available through search and the Accountant home page.

The content of each report covers the content of one or more existing RDLC reports, and gives you the underlying data so you can create custom reports.

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 17th of the new functionality in the Application section is add an item as a Shopify variant.

The new release of the Shopify connector allows you to export items from Business Central as variants in Shopify. This gives you more flexibility and convenience when you manage product information across both applications.

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

Feature Details

Shopify and Business Central both offer extensive features for managing products and variants. Depending on your needs, you can choose different options. In Shopify, where you focus on convenience for customers, and in Business Central, where other criteria are taken into consideration, such as the ability to define an assembly BOM.

Microsoft are adding support for export scenarios when Shopify has products with variants, but the list of items is flat on the Business Central side. You can use the Add item as Variant action on the Variants subpage of the Shopify Products page.

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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 16th of the new functionality in the Application section is allow more than one user to post warehouse entries at a time.

In busy warehouses where lots of things are moving around, it’s important that warehouse employees don’t get in each other’s way or slow each other down. That includes registering their activities in Business Central. Multiple workers can now work on transactions that involve warehouse entries without locking each other out, which means less waiting time and more productivity.

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

Feature Details

To avoid the warehouse entry table being locked while warehouse employees posts transactions, Microsoft now use a number sequence to assign entry numbers to warehouse entries and entries in the Warehouse Register table. This feature is controlled by a feature key, which is enabled by default. However, you can turn it off if needed—for example, if you have an extension that requires the previous behavior.

My Opinion

It seems odd that only one user could post warehouse entries at a time, so it is good to see this restriction lifted. The backward compatibility option is a nice touch for anyone who does need the old processes maintained.