Tag: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 2

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.

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 2nd of the new functionality in the Reporting and data analysis section is do ad hoc analysis on fixed assets, projects, and services.

Do reporting and ad hoc data analysis on transactions from fixed assets, projects, and service management: group, summarize, and pivot data to give you the insights you need without the need to run a report.

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

Feature Details

In 2023 release wave 2, we introduced the ability to do data analysis on an AL query. Now, 2024 release wave 2 has out-of-the-box queries designed to make ad hoc analysis easier for fixed assets, projects, and services.

Many of the first examples are ledger entry tables (such as fixed assets ledger entries or project ledger entries) joined to relevant tables (typically the tables where a code field on the ledger can be joined) where additional fields can enrich the analysis scenarios that people typically do on ledger entry list pages.
Example: fixed assets ad hoc analysis

The fixed assets ad hoc analysis query joins data from fixed asset ledger entries to master data tables, such as the Fixed Asset, Fixed Asset Class, Fixed Asset Subclass, Fixed Asset Location, and Depreciation Book tables.

When you open the query in the Business Central client, you can slice and dice data about fixed assets any way you like. The following image shows the options that are available.

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 11th of the new functionality in the Legislation section is track sustainability certificates for items and vendors.

Customers are increasingly seeking products that are more friendly to people and the environment. It’s good for business if you can demonstrate that the products you build or buy were produced with sustainability in mind. To encourage that, there are various sustainability certificates that recognized organizations award. To keep track of the sustainability certificates that your vendors have earned, you can add their certificates to them, or to the items they work with.

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

Feature Details

If a vendor or an item has a sustainability certificate from an issuer, you can easily record the information on the vendor or item so that the information is readily available. If you want to find a vendor that has a certain sustainability certificate, you can filter on it.

You can create sustainability certificates with the following details:

• Name
• Area
• Standard
• Issuer
• Value

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 4th of the new functionality in the Country and regional section is show features with demo dataset for Czechia.

To help partners demonstrate the capabilities of Business Central, Microsoft are making a demo tool that provides setup and data for Czech localization scenarios.

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

Feature Details

The demo dataset for the Czech localization adds country-specific content on top of the base application.

The Contoso Coffee app provides a demo tool and a related set of demo data. You can install the extension in any environment. Presales specialists can run the tool on Cronus or MyCompany and get the setup and demo data they need to demonstrate features for various scenarios in the Czech localization. For Business Central on-premises, the demo tool and data are available on the product media as source code.

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 15th of the new functionality in the Application section is see improved usability for service and projects.

Productivity increases when processes are easy, so Microsoft have improved the usability of several areas within project and service management. For both projects and services, to make it a bit faster to get to information, Microsoft have added fields and actions on several pages.

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

Feature Details

Based on feedback from Microsoft customers, Microsoft have made it easier to complete several business processes in projects and service management.

To speed up the process of creating invoices for projects, Microsoft have added the Create Project Sales Invoice action to the Project Card page. Now you can create invoices without having to leave the project information. Additionally, Microsoft have made it faster to access and work with details about projects by adding the following actions to the Project List page:

• Assembly Orders
• Put-away, Pick, and Movement Lines
• Registered Pick Lines
• Project WIP Cockpit

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