This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 2 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 2.

The first of the new functionality in the Development section is open Visual Studio Code from web client to investigate or troubleshoot extensions.

Recreating a locally installed Visual Studio Code workspace to investigate or troubleshoot a customer environment includes creating workspaces, projects, and launch configurations, and downloading symbols, all of which require knowledge as well as time to go through it.

To simplify and speed up this process, a new option to open a local Visual Studio Code instance for a given extension and environment will be added to the web client.

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

Feature Details

As a developer or consultant, you can open a new Visual Studio Code session from within the web client for a specific customer production or sandbox environment. Different contexts will be supported—for example, for a page, page field, or extension from within the Page Inspector or from the Help and Support page. Depending on the context, Visual Studio Code will either open to allow inspecting objects and source, or to attach and debug the current web client session.

In this scenario, the following will happen:

• A new Visual Studio Code session begins.
• Projects for the chosen extensions will be created.
• Matching launch configuration will be created (depending on production or sandbox, but deployment is only possible on a sandbox).
• If invoked from a context to view extensions, symbols will be downloaded and the AL Explorer will open to easily allow browsing objects.
• If invoked to view source or attach and debug, the user will end in a debug AL (.dal) source file.
• In both cases, access to source will be gated by the resource exposure profile settings for each extension.

My Opinion

Happy for a developer to tell me otherwise, but this sounds like it could be a useful enhancement.

This post is part of the In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (Inventory and Warehouse Management), how do I… series and of the wider In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, how do I… series which I am posting as I familiarise myself with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.

In a previous article, I covered basic inventory with bins and why you might use bins to keep track of where stock is within a warehouse. Whereas locations can be used without locations being mandatory (although I don’t recommend it), bins must be made mandatory before bins can be used.

If you try to process stock into a bin at a site where bins are not mandatory then you will receive an error:

Bins are enabled per location, meaning you can operate bins in some warehouses and not others. For some of the clients I have worked with, this would be useful as they may track stock in bins at the warehouse location, but not at branch or other locations (I’ve worked with more than one client who held stock in vans which were all created as a site).

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This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 2 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 2.

The tenth 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 150 countries and regions.

Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview: Nov 2023
General Availability: Dec 2023

Feature Details

Microsoft are expanding Business Central to more countries and regions through partner-led localization. Their 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 150-plus countries and regions worldwide. In this release, Microsoft plan to expand to the following countries and regions:

• American Samoa
• Anguilla
• Aruba
• Brunei
• Chad
• Côte d’Ivoire
• Curacao
• Dominica
• Grenada
• Guam
• Guinea
• Guyana
• Haiti
• Micronesia
• New Caledonia
• Palau
• Papua New Guinea
• Samoa
• Seychelles
• Suriname
• Vanuatu

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 2 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 2.

The ninth of the new functionality in the Country and regional section is e-invoicing with NemHandel in Denmark.

Danish companies can use e-invoicing with the NemHandel as required by the new Danish Bookkeeping Act.

Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview: Oct 2023
General Availability: Nov 2023

Feature Details

As the new Danish Bookkeeping Act requires an embedded feature for e-invoicing that’s connected with the NemHandel service, a new e-invoicing app has been created on top of Microsoft’s new global e-invoicing core app. This new app enables all features that are required by Danish authorities.

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 2 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 2.

The eighth of the new functionality in the Country and regional section is registration and notification functionality for Denmark.

Danish companies can notify new users and register them in the Nemhandelsregisteret as required by the new Danish Bookkeeping Act.

Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview: Sep 2023
General Availability: Oct 2023

Feature Details

A mandatory requirement from the new Danish Bookkeeping Act is to register Dynamics 365 Business Central users in Nemhandelsregisteret and to notify them if they are currently not registered there, while providing registration instructions. These features are enabled for the Danish localization of Business Central.

This post is part of the In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (Inventory and Warehouse Management), how do I… series and of the wider In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, how do I… series which I am posting as I familiarise myself with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.

In the last couple of article, in this series, I took a look at basic inventory and the Shelf No. field which can be used to record, on an information only basis, where items are stored. As stated, the shelf no is notational only and is used when there is no requirement for control or management of where items are in a warehouse or stock room.

This configuration is used only by organisations with very simple stock requirements; for anyone who processes a lot of stock or holds a lot of items for varying lengths of time then a notational shelf number will not be sufficient. Fortunately, Business Central has functionality for the management of items in bins, which are smaller locations within the warehouse location.

Bins allow for precise inventory tracking and management; items can be linked with one or more specific bins, with one set as the default and can be configured of a certain size or weight bearing capacity. With bins, users can know the exact location of items within the warehouse location, allowing for easy picking.

With more advanced warehousing enabled for a site, bin information is used for directed put-away and picking which helps streamline processes and improve efficiency.

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 2 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 2.

The seventh of the new functionality in the Country and regional section is new Intrastat – Czechia.

The new feature covers the Intrastat functionality in Czechia, including document and status history and a configurable reporting method.

Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview: Sep 2023
General Availability: Oct 2023

Feature Details

The new Intrastat solution provides a document with different statuses that show the history of any previously reported periods. Intrastat works for both purchase and sales documents. The subject of Intrastat entries includes Items whose Type = Inventory, and Fixed Assets. Many existing capabilities are improved in this release wave, and reporting is configurable without hard-coding file exports using the data exchange framework.

The new Intrastat CZ capability is provided as an extension depending on Intrastat Core application.

This post is part of the In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (Inventory and Warehouse Management), how do I… series and of the wider In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, how do I… series which I am posting as I familiarise myself with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.

In the last article, I took a look at basic inventory which you can use with or without a location, although I do always recommend using locations to future-proof the system.

That is the most basic of configurations on inventory management in Business Central and is used when you don’t need to be tracking stock to specific locations in a warehouse or stock room.

For those Business Central users who do not need, or want, to use bins for stock location management, there is a field on the Item card where you can record the typical location of items of that type; the field is Self No.:

This is only a notational field on the item card which you can set, but which is not used to control or manage anything; the field is free-form text entry which will accept any combination of letters, numbers and symbols, up to ten characters long.