Here at MADIC dynamics we will be presenting a Knowledge Hub Webinar at 1400 UK time on Tuesday.
Discover the upcoming new features in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 1.
The webinar is open to everyone who wants to sign up and join:
 What’s New in Business Central 2024 Wave 1Tuesday, 21st May 2024 – 14:00-14:45
Discover the upcoming new features in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 1. |
This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Power Automate 2024 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Power Automate 2024 Wave 1.
The 10th of the new functionality in the Cloud Flows section is Use undo and redo while you build cloud flows in the designer.
You can confidently build flows with Copilot, or experiment knowing that you can undo any of your actions.
Enabled for: Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
Public Preview: –
Early Access: –
General Availability: Jun 2024
You can undo a change you make to your flow manually or through Copilot. If you change your mind and want to return it to your flow, you can use redo to bring back the change you removed with undo.
The ability to undo changes could be very useful, although I tend to find I want to undo changes after running the flow, which I suspect I’ll find can;t be undone.
This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Power Automate 2024 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Power Automate 2024 Wave 1.
The 9th of the new functionality in the Cloud Flows section is view two action properties panes simultaneously.
Makers can view two action properties panes simultaneously, facilitating copying and moving values, comparing the properties across two actions, and taking a screenshot of the flow.
Enabled for: –
Public Preview: –
Early Access: May 2024
General Availability: Jan 1900
With this feature, you can pin an action properties pane, which allows you to open another action pane side-by-side to the pinned one. This allows you to easily compare the properties of one action to another. You can also copy values across panes and take screenshots of the flow.
This enhancement sounds like it should be very useful. I’ve had a few flows recently where I wanted to copy settings from one action to another and found only having one property pane open at a time very frustrating.
This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Power Automate 2024 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Power Automate 2024 Wave 1.
The 8th of the new functionality in the Cloud Flows section is create Power Automate flows in Excel.
Makers can quickly create useful flows from the Automate tab in Excel. Excel is one of the most popular data tools in the world, with hundreds of millions of people using it for work and personal purposes across various industries. It has advanced features for teamwork, simplicity, flexibility, and automation. Power Automate simplifies the automation of tasks and processes from Excel.
Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview: –
Early Access: –
General Availability: Jun 2024
This feature improves the Automate work button by adding ready-made templates to the ribbon that give access to prebuilt templates and let users make workflows easily and quickly. This feature helps users start quickly in Excel. The prebuilt templates allow users to make workflows by entering information into the parameters. Makers can also view and manage their flows from Excel.
On balance this is probably a good addition, but I think that organisations need to have a clear plan about by whom and how Power Automate flows will be built, and ensure they stick to best practice around ALM (Application Lifecycle Management).
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 6th of the new functionality in the User experiences section is enhancements to the user experience.
Customers benefit from a continuously evolving Web client that keeps users productive. Along with the major features Microsoft are releasing in this wave, the user experience in Business Central also contains minor enhancements. Sometimes, it’s the small changes that make all the difference for Microsoft’s users.
Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview: –
General Availability: Â Apr 2, 2024
This wave includes the following enhancements to Business Central’s Web client:
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 5th of the new functionality in the User experiences section is boost productivity with the modern action bar.
You can tailor the action bar to fit the needs of your industry, company, or yourself. Add actions that you want to make available in an easily discoverable and consistent way across the product for new users to quickly learn the product, or tailor it to your business-specific needs for proficient users.
Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview: –
General Availability: Â Apr 5, 2024
In 2022 release wave 2 Microsoft introduced the modern action bar feature. Until now, the modern action bar was an optional feature you could turn on by choosing All Users in the Enabled for column on the Feature Management page. With 2024 release wave 1, the modern action bar is automatically enabled for all users.
When you sign in to 2024 release wave 1, the following callout explains the changes Microsoft have made in the action bar.
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 11th of the new functionality in the Governance and administration section is experience the new embedded AppSource marketplace page.
Microsoft AppSource is an online store that contains thousands of business applications and services built by industry-leading software providers. It’s a platform that makes it easy for customers to discover and try new apps, get customer leads, and gain usage insights for trials, deployments, and growth for customer accounts. In addition to the primary AppSource marketplace site, Business Central has had an embedded AppSource experience inside the client, used to browse and install apps directly from within the client. Since this option has been deprecated, Microsoft have built a new replacement Microsoft AppSource Apps page in the client..
Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview: Â Apr 1, 2024
General Availability: Â Apr 1, 2024
The old embedded AppSource experience has been deprecated by the AppSource team, and replaced with APIs enabling custom experiences inside consuming products. Given its widespread use in Business Central, to browse and install apps, Microsoft have replaced the old embed experience with a new Microsoft AppSource Apps page.
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 10th of the new functionality in the Governance and administration section is use Premium license to sign in to environment with Essentials licenses.
In some Business Central configurations, users who have Premium licenses also need to access companies that use only the capabilities available for the Essentials license. This avoids duplicating users to match Business Central’s requirement of not mixing Essentials and Premium licenses within the same environment.
Enabled for: Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
Public Preview: –
General Availability: Â Apr 5, 2024
In general, Business Central doesn’t let you mix different license types within the same company. If you’re using the capabilities that the Essentials license provides, up until 2024 release wave 1, users with a Premium license couldn’t sign in. This is counter-intuitive, given that the capabilities of the Premium license also include the capabilities of the Essentials license. Currently, Essentials and Premium users can’t coexist in the same environment. The license with the most capabilities determines the experience.
With 2024 release wave 1, a Premium license user can sign in to a company where the User Experience field is set to Essentials on the Company Information page. However, the Premium user can’t use any of the features that the Premium license provides. This doesn’t work in the opposite direction. Users who have an Essentials license can’t sign in to a company where the User Experience is set to Premium on the Company Information page.
I’m still learning about the licensing on Business Central and this wasn’t one I had come across. It appears to be a restriction which, Microsoft acknowledge, didn’t make sense to enforce so it is good to see the restriction being removed.
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 9th of the new functionality in the Governance and administration section is analyze telemetry events across browser and server for a session or user.
Telemetry events emitted from the browser/client have been enhanced to make it even easier to troubleshoot performance and stability issues.
Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview: Â Mar 31, 2024
General Availability: Â Apr 2, 2024
The following events have been improved in browser/client telemetry:
For each of these events, the columns user_Id and session_Id are now aligned with events from the server. This means that you can now track all events for a session or user across browser/client and server.
Learn more about Business Central telemetry at Monitoring and Analyzing Telemetry.
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 10th of the new functionality in the Development section is Define tooltips on table fields.
Developers can now define tooltips on the table level. Any page that uses the field will now inherit the tooltip, making reuse much easier in apps and extensions.
Enabled for: Users by admins, makers, or analysts
Public Preview: Â Apr 1, 2024
General Availability: Â Apr 2, 2024
Prior to this release, a developer who needed a tooltip to appear on a field—for example, shown on a card and also on a list page—would need to duplicate the tooltip in those two page objects.
With this release, developers can just define the tooltip on the table level and all pages that show the field will automatically have the tooltip available. On a page, it’s possible to override a tooltip defined on the table level by specifying it at the page level.
The AL Language extension for Visual Studio Code now also comes with code actions that can move tooltips down from a page to the source table underneath.
This sounds like it could be a good time saving enhancement when creating tooltips.
