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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 25th of the new functionality in the section is use refreshed demo data for Sustainability.

Microsoft have updated their demonstration data to make it easier to test and demo new features in sustainability when necessary.

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

Feature Details

Microsoft added the following features to the Sustainability Demo Data tool:

• Enabled sustainability features in purchase documents.
• Added a new vendor and item related to carbon credits.
• Provided a new purchase invoice with examples of sustainability information and carbon credits.
• Included details for carbon fee and CO2 equivalent calculations.
• Added new statistical accounts and journal for social and governance.
• Created a scorecard and goals.
• Introduced a new ESG example in financial 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 24th of the new functionality in the section is analyze fixed asset and subscription billing in Power BI.

Reporting and analysis are key tasks for CFOs, controllers, and finance departments. Microsoft are increasing their reporting capabilities by adding new Power BI apps that let business decision makers analyze data in more areas in Business Central.

Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview: Mar 2025
General Availability: Apr 2025

Feature Details

Six new Power BI apps are available for finance, sales, inventory, purchase, projects, and manufacturing to enable you to run reports and do data analyses in these areas. Microsoft are also providing Power BI apps that you can use to get insights into data about your fixed assets and subscription billing. Microsoft’ll continue to add new capabilities to the apps throughout 2024 release wave 2.

My Opinion

It’s good to see additional reporting being made available for Business Central as it has always seemed light out of the box.

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 23rd of the new functionality in the section is stay current with Shopify connector.

The latest update for the Shopify connector includes changes introduced by Shopify, such as dual-level risk assessments, accurate weight management, and new product information management. In addition, Microsoft have also added multiple enhancements based on received feedback.

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

Feature Details

Shopify releases a new API version every three months at the beginning of the quarter and supports each version for 12 months. These API releases might bring bigger changes—that’s why it’s important to uptake Shopify API versions in major releases of Business Central. Typically, new versions of APIs increase stability and security, and enable additional capabilities. Starting with this release, the Shopify connector uses the Shopify API that was released in July 2024.

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Another feature of the Word Template functionality in Business Central is that they can be applied when emails are being created to the sent; the Word template can be used either to populate the body of the email or be added as an attachment.

In the previous article, I showed how a Word Template could be applied as the message body of an email, but you can also apply them as an attachment to the email.

To do this, open the send email function from a master record, such as a vendor and click the Add file from Word template action in the Attachments section:

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Another feature of the Word Template functionality in Business Central is that they can be applied when emails are being created to the sent; the Word template can be used either to populate the body of the email or be added as an attachment.

I’ll show adding the email as an attachment in the next article, but to apply a Word template to the body of an email when sending an email, you click the Use Word template action:

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As well as mail merging the Word template from the Word Templates (9989) page, you can also do it from the master record page (or related list page).

In this article, I am showing the process from the Vendor List (27) page where I have selected a few of the vendors to include; on the Word Templates page you can apply filters within the mail merge wizard, but from the entity pages, you select the records first.

When you have the records you want, click the Actions » Apply Word Template action:

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With Word templates created, using them is quite easy to do. Open the Word Templates (9989) page, select a template and click the Apply button on the action pane:

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As well as creating a Word template from the Word Templates page, you can also start from a master page (or related list page); starting this way will add the master record type as the source.

To create a Word template in this way, open the master record page and click Actions » Apply Word template:

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To create a new Word template there is an assisted setup to guide you through the process. To use this tool, search for and open the Word Templates page.

There are three main stages to the process of creating a Word template; all three parts are covered in this article and the index below will allow you to quickly to a specific section.

• Configure and export the Word template.
• Insert mail merge fields in template using Microsoft Word.
• Import the Word template

Configure and export the Word template

On the Word Templates (9989) page, click the New &raquo Create a template action:

To create a Word Template requires a source table to be available. However, before adding a source table, you need to think about which other related tables you will want to also add to the Word template, as this will decide which table to pick as the source table.

For example, if I wanted to create a letter to customers based on the ship-to address, I cannot use the Customer (18) table as the Ship-to Address (222) table is not a related table. However, if you pick the Ship-to Address table then the Customer table is a related table. This is because tables are available as a related table when their is a field on that table linking it to the other; in the case of the Customer table there is no field for Ship-to Address and so it is not related, but the Ship-to Address table does contain the Customer No. and is therefore a related table.

To add a new source table, click the Add new entity button:

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