Category: Business Central (Nav/Navision)

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1.

The sixth of the new functionality in the Development section is Control Database Locking Behaviour.

Database locking is a main root cause for performance issues. When AL code takes fewer locks, it increases the performance of the system for end users.

Enabled for: Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
Public Preview: Apr 2023
General Availability: Apr 2023

Feature Details

By default, the runtime of Business Central automatically determines the isolation levels used when querying the database. AL developers can now explicitly control the database isolation level on individual reads on a record instance.

A new ReadIsolation method has been introduced on the record data type. The method has the following syntax:

rec.ReadIsolation := IsolationLevel::

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The fourth of the new functionality in the Development section is Optimized Runtime Package Generation For Sharing.

Whenever partners want to consume AppSource apps as part of local development, or continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, they need to contact app owners to request runtime packages. This is a manual and time-consuming process both for publishers and resellers and includes additional work for publishers to generate appropriate runtime package versions. Given the increase of both AppSource app customers and amount of AppSource apps per customer, optimizing runtime package generation and distribution is important in reducing partner overhead and scale resources efficiently.

Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview: Mar 2023
General Availability: Apr 2023

Feature Details

While requested, this feature does not introduce a new runtime package cloud service for partners to manage and share runtime libraries. Instead, it focuses on defining a standardized format for sharing runtime packages by providing the ability to generate runtime packages with alc.exe instead of an NST. Using alc.exe reduces complexity and improves performance and it adds CI/CD scripts both for publishers to generate runtime packages on demand and for resellers to request and download these on demand. These tools increase efficiency and reduce manual work. Taking this approach also allows publishers to distribute apps for on-premises, aligning support resellers both for on-premises and cloud development.

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1.

The third of the new functionality in the Development section is Improved Compiler Resource Handling And Faster Code Analyzers.

Boost productivity of Business Central developers by improving performance of compilation, code analyzing, and individual code analyzer rules.

Enabled for: Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
Public Preview: Mar 2023
General Availability: Apr 2023

Feature Details

Developers often experience reduced responsiveness and delayed results when using static code analysis tools (AL cops) to find diagnostic issues. This can be annoying and affect their productivity, as they cannot react faster on the issues detected in the code. With this release we’re planning to improve the performance of the compiler and code analyzer framework, as well as optimize inefficient code analyzer rules—all to boost developer productivity.

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1.

The second of the new functionality in the Development section is Attach Al Debugger To Active Session Or Next Session.

The legacy C/AL debugger supported attaching to an existing session or to the next session for a specific user. While this has been possible with the AL snapshot debugger for some time, the standard, more powerful AL debugger in Visual Studio Code is still missing this capability, and it’s been a partner ask to fill this gap for a while. With the introduction of service-to-service (S2S) authentication, this has become more important, since it’s now much harder to debug important web service scenarios, which are only possible with snapshot debugger.

Enabled for: Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
Public Preview: Mar 2023
General Availability: Apr 2023

Feature Details

Developers often experience reduced responsiveness and delayed results when using static code analysis tools (AL cops) to find diagnostic issues. This can be annoying and affect their productivity, as they cannot react faster on the issues detected in the code. With this release we’re planning to improve the performance of the compiler and code analyzer framework, as well as optimize inefficient code analyzer rules—all to boost developer productivity.

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This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1.

The first of the new functionality in the Development section is AL Explorer And AL Home In Visual Studio Code AL Extension.

Over the last several releases Microsoft have made a remarkable transformation of their development tools, to align them with the expectations of the worldwide community of developers. Visual Studio Code, GitHub, and Application Insights are the tools used by millions of developers worldwide, and they can now join the Business Central developer community much easier, with less ramp-up time needed.

On the other hand, regardless of their efforts in scaling the developer community, the broader trend shows that we won’t be able to keep up with the demand in that area, so Microsoft need to focus their efforts on increasing pro developer productivity as well as re-enabling consultants to do more on their own, like in the classic C/SIDE RAD experience, with little to no dependency on scarce pro developer resources or need to work directly in source code, and still abiding to proper quality and continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) processes.

Enabled for: Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
Public Preview: Feb 2023
General Availability: Apr 2023

Feature Details

With the introduction of the AL Explorer, we are bringing a powerful tool to the hands of pro developers and technical consultants, allowing both roles to explore, navigate, and better understand objects in extensions, including object details, dependencies, and extension points, without looking at the code. This increases daily productivity for developers and allows technical consultants to understand high-level structures of extensions in order to specify new features, or even do light troubleshooting.

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The second of the new functionality in the Country and regional section is Supporting More Countries And Regions.

More countries and regions are added to bring Business Central to approximately 130 countries and regions.

Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview: May 2023
General Availability: Jun 2023

Feature Details

Microsoft are expanding to more countries/regions through partner-led localization. Our partners create the relevant localization apps and publish them to AppSource. In combination with the built-in language offerings, Microsoft are making Business Central online available to serve customers in 130-plus countries and regions worldwide.

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This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1.

The first of the new functionality in the Country and regional section is Swedish Localization Delivered As Extension.

With 2023 release wave 1, Swedish localization will be delivered as an extension.

Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview: Mar 2023
General Availability: Apr 2023

Feature Details

Swedish localization will be delivered as an extension. The solution will offer a data upgrade from the old localization to the new one. This release is a step toward delocalization where ISVs will be able to release their apps for a broader market.

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1.

The thirteenth of the new functionality in the Application section is Undo Transfer Shipments.

Sometimes people post incorrect quantities on transfer orders. For example, you may have made a transfer order with the incorrect number of items and then posted it as shipped, but not received. This feature lets you undo the quantity posting, make the necessary corrections, and then post the correct quantity.

Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview: Mar 2023
General Availability: Apr 2023

Feature Details

If you discover a mistake in a quantity after you’ve posted a transfer order, as long as the shipment isn’t received you can easily correct the quantity. On the Posted Transfer Shipment page, the Undo Shipment action creates corrective lines:

• The value in the Quantity Shipped field is decreased by the quantity you’ve undone.
• The Qty. to Ship is increased by the quantity you’ve undone.
• The Correction checkbox is selected for the lines.
• If the quantity was shipped in a warehouse shipment, a corrective line is created in the posted warehouse shipment.

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The twelfth of the new functionality in the Application section is Synchronize Returns, Refunds From Shopify.

In an integration between Shopify and Business Central, it’s important to be able to synchronize as much business data as possible. That makes it easier to keep your financials and inventory levels up to date in Business Central. Microsoft have expanded the data you can synchronize to include returns and refunds that were recorded in Shopify Admin or Shopify POS.

Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview: Mar 2023
General Availability: Apr 2023

Feature Details

The returns and refunds that you record in Shopify are imported to Business Central when you synchronize orders.

The details about the feature are not yet defined. You can add your comments to the product suggestion: a href=’https://experience.dynamics.com/ideas/idea/?ideaid=f2d599d7-b84f-ed11-97b2-0003ff45c94c’>Shopify Refunds sync to Business Central.

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1.

The eleventh of the new functionality in the Application section is Shopify Connector Becomes Extensible.

Tailor Shopify Connector to address the specific needs of your business.

Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview: Mar 2023
General Availability: Apr 2023

Feature Details

Shopify Connector has been non-extensible, but Microsoft are changing that by offering a few points of extensibility. They’ll keep the number of points to a minimum so that they can follow the rapid development on the Shopify side without introducing breaking changes.

Microsoft are opening for extensibility for specific scenarios, based on feedback from partners and customers. Please share your scenarios as comments to the following product suggestion: Allow extensibility of the new Shopify Connector Extension.

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