MSDYN365BC - What's New in Business Central April 2019 Release.

Hi Readers,

If you haven't heard about it then this is the place to see a detailed overview of Microsoft releases new release notes for business central. This illustrates planned features for business central.

All features listed below are planned to release between April and September 2019. So let's ride the time machine and see what's coming in Future.

Microsoft is making investments in the platform to make it easier for ISVs to get into the cloud. Microsoft will achieve this by splitting the big application that we have today into a system app and an app on top of that as an extension, compiled in AL using Visual Studio Code.


As I am a developer I will start with Designer enhancements (VS Code Enhancements) - 

• Designer no longer takes dependencies on all extensions- The In-Client Designer used to take dependencies on all the extensions installed. This is no longer the case—it only takes the dependency on the extensions that are necessary, removing the need to edit these in Visual Studio Code after consultants or customers have used the Designer for small changes.

• Fine-tune field importance and Quick Entry.

• Adjust the Action Bar and Navigation Bar on your page by reordering, hiding or regrouping actions and lists respectively.

• Define variations of your lists by creating named views that include specific filters and sort order.
• Designing Quick Entry
• Designing field importance
• Application as an app.
• Outline View - allows developers to get an overview of the symbol tree of the currently active editor.
• Debugging client sessions.
• Code Actions support.
• Multiple objects ID ranges in app.json.
• Extension IP
• The standard web API is moving out of beta to v1.0 APIs.
• Developing APIs in AL using custom namespaces
• Open API Specification 3.x
• Deep entity nesting
• Simple keys
• Employee timesheet registration API

Read Details About Designer enhancements Here.

Productivity Enhancement for Self Help and Support - 
Page inspection - Depending on the page you are inspecting, some or all of the following is displayed:

1. The page or page part name and identifier.
2. The underlying table name and identifier.
3. The entire set of table fields for the current record, including their caption, value, field identifier, a primary key indicator, and which extension has introduced them.
4. Which extensions extend the page or the underlying table.
5. Which filters are currently applied to the table?

Read Details About Self Help and Support Here.

Now Let's Talk about what Productivity Enhancement for Business Users - 

1. Write longer names and descriptions. (Length increased from 50 to 100)
2. Use physical inventory orders to better structure your physical inventory counting
3. Select multiple items to add to a sales or purchase document
4. Use a sales quote validity policy to control when sales quotes expire
5. Control item and customer creation from lookups on sales documents.
6. Copy customer dimensions to jobs created for the customer.
7. Copy templates used to create customers, vendors, and items
8. Merge duplicate customers or vendors
9. Dynamically set shortcut dimension columns in lists, documents, and journal lines
10. Bulk import item pictures.
11. View payment information on customer and vendor statistics FactBoxes
12. Look up SWIFT codes.
13. Ensure that approval users are set up to run approval workflows.
14. Configure reports for warehouse documents.
15. View vendor invoice number on purchase invoice and credit memo lists
16. View time information on registers
17. Save list page filters.
18. Improved Notes and links.
19. Document focus mode.
20. Context or system indicator.
21. Quick Entry.
22. New keyboard shortcuts.
23. Autosave indicator.
24. Improvements to scrolling in lists.
25. Improved contextual search experience - New users often use different business terms than those used to name the related entities in Business Central.
26. Improved all-product navigation.
27. Personalization enhancements.

Read Details About Productivity Enhancement for Business Users Here.

Now Let's Talk about what Productivity Enhancement for Administrators - 

1. Self-service in resolving synchronization conflicts
2. Sales order synchronization
3. Sales quotes synchronization
4. Shared AI between Business Central and Sales
5. Manage upgrade schedule
6. Monitoring and notifications
7. Version Previews
8. Multiple sandboxes
9. Enhanced sandbox management
10. Enhanced extension management
11. Lifecycle Services (Preview)
12. Dynamics SL 2018 and the intelligent cloud
13. Dynamics GP 2018 R2 historical data available in the intelligent cloud
14. Dynamics NAV 2018 and the intelligent cloud
15. Improved data replication services
16. SmartLists

Read Details About Productivity Enhancements for Administrators Here.

I am excited about the future and hope this quick journey toward the future would have excited you too. To read all the updates in Details Read - Overview of Dynamics 365 Business Central April '19 release.

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Saurav Dhyani 

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