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The 9th of the new functionality in the Development section is use cookies in HTTP calls from Business Central.

In scenarios where third-party HTTP endpoints require cookie customization, this can now be built into Business Central apps and extensions.

Enabled for: Users by admins, makers, or analysts
Public Preview:  Mar 1, 2024
General Availability:  Apr 2, 2024

Feature Details

Microsoft are adding official support for cookies to the HttpClient datatype. This allows AL developers to efficiently send and receive cookies when sending HTTP requests.

A new Cookie datatype has been introduced, as well as several AL interfaces to handle cookies:

• UseResponseCookies AL interface to the HttpClient data type enabling and disabling caching for server cookies.
• Cookie data type representing a cookie object.
• AL interfaces to retrieve cookies from an HttpResponseMessage.
• AL interfaces to retrieve, add to, and remove cookies from an HttpRequestMessage.

Developers can choose to automatically reuse response cookies, handle cookies manually, or a mix of both.

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The 10th of the new functionality in the Country and regional section is use Excel layouts for Czech reports.

You can use Excel to create and edit layouts for reports in the Czech version.

Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview: –
General Availability:  Apr 1, 2024

Feature Details

Excel layouts work the same way as Word and RDLC layouts in that you can edit them and then save your changes in Business Central.

With Excel layouts for Business Central reports, you can create and edit report layouts using the full palette of capabilities in Excel, such as sliders, diagrams, charts, and pivot tables.

You can create and edit the layout of the following Excel reports in the Czech version:

• 1001 "Inventory Valuation"
• 11715 "Open Cust. Entries to Date CZL"
• 11716 "Open Vend. Entries to Date CZL"
• 11757 "Documentation for VAT CZL"
• 31019 "Sales Advance Letters CZZ"
• 31024 "Purch. Advance Letters CZZ"
• 31026 "Sales Adv. Letters Recap. CZZ"
• 31027 "Purch. Adv. Letters Recap. CZZ"
• 31130 "Open G/L Entries To Date CZA"

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The 9th of the new functionality in the Country and regional section is Print QR codes on sales invoices in the Czech version.

It’s important to make it easy for your customers to pay their bills. To that end, customers can make payments for sales documents by simply using a QR code.

Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview: –
General Availability:  Apr 1, 2024

Feature Details

When you print a sales invoice, sales advance, and service invoice, you can include payment data in the form of a QR code.

You can turn on the QR code payment printing functionality in your sales and receivables settings. You can also make the same setting on payment methods, where it’s set for the types of payments for which to use the QR code printing. For sales invoices that customers will pay with cash or credit, you can turn off QR code printing.

QR codes for payments only print on sales invoices if the value in the Balance field on the Sales Invoice Header table is not zero.

QR code printing is available for the following reports:

• 31018 Sales – invoice with advance payment
• 31189 Sales invoice
• 31197 Service invoice
• 31014 Sales – advance invoice

A new notification is added to sales invoices, sales orders, service invoices, and advance invoices to fill in the IBAN Bank Account field. The check runs only if you turn on the Print QR Payment toggle on the Sales & Receivables Setup page and the payment method from the sales document is set up to print QR codes.

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The 8th of the new functionality in the Country and regional section is allow more extendability of advance payments in the Czech version.

Tailor advance payments to address the specific needs of your business.

Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview: –
General Availability:  Apr 1, 2024

Feature Details

Historically, it’s been a challenge to extend advance payments, but Microsoft are changing that by adding new extendability points.

Microsoft have redesigned the code to programmatically separate dialogs and posting, added a number of events, and adjusted permissions to better set direct and indirect permissions. In practice, the functionality remains the same, the improvements are technical changes in the code.

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 1.

The 7th of the new functionality in the Country and regional section is improved updates of ARES data in the Czech version.

Updating of ARES data better corresponds to practical use.

Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview: –
General Availability:  Apr 1, 2024

Feature Details

From now on, Business Central takes the Country Code field directly from the ARES Register of Economic Subjects.

The Registration No. Verification action is extended to now also process the country code and add it to the Country/Region Code field.

In addition, the ability to set the format of the post code is added. In the Registration No. Validation Service Setup, the Post Code without Space field is added. The field specifies whether to transform the post code provided by the ARES service into an entry with a space (XXX XX) or without one (XXXXX).

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The 6th of the new functionality in the Country and regional section is report explorer has additional outputs in the Czech version.

Reports are important for making good business decisions, so it’s helpful to be able to access them quickly. You can easily find and use all reports for the Czech version.

Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview: –
General Availability:  Apr 1, 2024

Feature Details

By adding reports that were missing for the Accountant CZ profile, Microsoft have made it easier to find and use important reports in the Czech version. The additions include the following outputs:

• Open Vend. Entries to Date CZL
• Vendor-Bal. Reconciliation CZL
• Purch. Advance Letters CZZ
• Purch. Advance Letters VAT CZZ
• Purch. Adv. Letters Recap. CZZ
• Quantity Received Check CZL
• Open Cust. Entries to Date CZL
• Cust.- Bal. Reconciliation CZL
• Sales Advance Letters CZZ
• Sales Advance Letters VAT CZZ
• Sales Adv. Letters Recap. CZZ
• Quantity Shipped Check CZL
• Documentation for VAT CZL
• VAT Documents List CZL
• Unreliable Payer List CZL
• Turnover Rpt. by Gl. Dim. CZL
• General Ledger CZL
• General Journal CZL
• Posted Inventory Document CZL
• Phys. Inventory Document CZL
• Fixed Asset Card CZF
• Fixed Asset – Book Value 1 CZF

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The 5th of the new functionality in the Country and regional section is improvement of Czech localization reports.

The CZ localization reports provide users with more useful information.

Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview: –
General Availability:  Apr 1, 2024

Feature Details

Warehouse workers need more data that’s relevant to their work on the following inventory movement reports:

• Posted Inventory Shipment CZL (11750)
• Posted Inventory Receipt CZL (11751)
• Inventory Document CZL (11752)

Microsoft have extended the datasets for these reports to include the following information on the report’s header and lines:

Header

• Posting Description
• Salesperson Code and Name
• External Document No.

Line

• Variant Code
• Bin Code
• Item Category Code

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The 4th of the new functionality in the Country and regional section is process Czech bank statements, payment orders more productively.

You can work more efficiently with bank statements and payment orders because it takes fewer actions on your part to process them.

Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview: –
General Availability:  Apr 1, 2024

Feature Details

The Banking Documents Localization for the Czech version is enhanced with new features to increase user productivity.

A new Issue and Create Journal action is added to bank statements, which allows you to issue a bank statement and generate a payment journal in one click. Also, Microsoft have added functionality to automatically open the created journal when you issue a bank statement. You can turn the feature on or off for a user on the My Notifications page.

Similarly, a new Issue and Export action is added to payment orders, so you can issue and export a payment order in one click.

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The 32nd of the new functionality in the Application section is use a new role center for collection management.

Collection management tasks center on customers and posted documents, and typically involve creating and sending reminders, statements, or other related documents. Information that’s important for collection managers is gathered on a modernized version of the Accounts Receivable Administrator Role Center.

Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview:  Mar 1, 2024
General Availability:  Apr 1, 2024

Feature Details

The Accounts Receivable Administrator Role Center collects the information you need for collections. The role center has wide cues, cues and lists, an updated menu, and an embedded actions menu.

To explore the role center, on the My Settings page, in the Role field, choose Account Receivables Administrator.

The role center has two wide cues that help you quickly validate and reconcile account receivables balances.

• Total Outstanding (LCY) shows the outstanding balance of unpaid invoices in your local currency, so you can investigate invoices.
• A/R Accounts Balance shows the balance on the G/L accounts that are assigned to the Account Receivables account subcategory.

To use the wide cues, there’s some setup to do. You must specify the account category that represents account receivables. On the General Ledger Setup page, in the Account Receivables G/L Account Category field, select the category. In a US demo company, it’s category ‘4’, but that might differ across companies or if you have custom account categories.

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The 31st of the new functionality in the Application section is ensure accurate inventory valuation by controlling cost adjustment.

Minimize the number of items with inaccurate costs and reduce the time between posting an entry and reflecting its cost in the general ledger. You can track the performance of the cost adjustment batch job for each run and individual item. If the batch job has errors, you can identify the problematic items and take corrective actions. For example, you can exclude the items from calculations to ensure uninterrupted adjustments for other items.

Enabled for: Users by admins, makers, or analysts
Public Preview:  Mar 2, 2024
General Availability:  Apr 2, 2024

Feature Details

To enable tracking of the cost adjustment process, on the Inventory Setup page, turn on Cost Adjustment Logging. You’ll find a dropdown list with three options:

• Disabled: Don’t log cost adjustment runs.
• Errors Only: Log only the runs that failed.
• All: Log all cost adjustment runs.

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