[Podcast] Business Central 2020 Release Wave 1 New Features Overview
Updated: Aug 16, 2021
Intro
On Today’s podcast we’re talking about all of the new features set to be released in Business Central’s Spring Release Wave 1 update, Attachments and Links within Business Central, and we’re giving you 5 steps to take before purchasing an app.
Segment Start Times
Intro & Beer: 0min 25sec
Shot of Business Central - Updates: 5min 14sec
Double Shot of Business Central - Release Wave 1 Features Overview: 11min 30sec
BC Feature Spotlight - Attachments and Links in Business Central: 52min 20sec
BC Feature App - 5 Steps To Take Before Puchasing: 59min 00sec
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A Shot of Business Central and A Beer Show Notes
Segment 1 – Beer Review
Beer - Iron Maiden Trooper
Given to us by last month’s podcast guest, Jim Gio from Triangle Package Machinery. So thank you very much Jim we appreciate it!
Check out Jim and his insights on upgrading from NAV to Business Central here: https://www.solsyst.com/post/podcast-upgrading-from-nav-to-business-central-as-told-by-the-customer
Brewed by Robinson Brewery: https://robinsonsbrewery.com/
Based in the heart of Stockport for almost two centuries, and owning 300 tenanted and managed pubs, inns and hotels across the North West, ‘Robinsons’ is one of oldest and most respected names in British brewing history.
Iron Maiden Trooper was launched in 2013: https://www.ironmaidenbeer.com/
4.7% Premium British Golden Ale Beer: https://www.robinsonsbrewery.com/store/trooper-/c-24/p-398
Award-winning Premium British Beer brewed with legendary band Iron Maiden
Our Ratings: Ken = 80 and Michael = 70
Segment 2 - A Shot of Business Central
Business Central's Cloud Rollup Updates
Base product:
Platform updates: 18
Application updates: 42
Total Base updates: 60
Localized version updates:
North America: 7
All other countries: 38
Total Localized updates: 45 (APAC, Austria, Australia, Belgium, Switzerland, Czech, DACH (Ger., Austria, Switz.), Spain, France, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Russia, UK)
Total updates: 105
Segment 3 – A Double Shot of Business Central
APPLICATION ENHANCEMENTS
Auto-insert recurring sales and purchase lines
Enhanced customer and vendor document layout
Relevant for: anyone using multiple formats for a single type of document.
Manage direct-debit collections in Service Management
Relevant for: anyone using Service Management and Direct Debit payment methods for customer invoices.
Notify requester about all changes for an approval request
Relevant for: anyone using Approval Requests on documents within Business Central
Receive more items than ordered
Relevant for: anyone who creates Purchase Orders and receives inventory against them where they may need to receive more than what was ordered. (weights, one-off production runs)
Revert Qty. to Invoice when canceling order
Relevant for: anyone who needs to cancel Posted Invoices.
Bank reconciliation improvements
Relevant for: Anyone using the Business Central Bank Reconciliation functionality
Multiple Languages
Relevant for: anyone who may need Business Central to operate in additional languages besides the standard language (English for US/NA customers)
COUNTRY AND REGIONAL AVAILABILITY
Relevant for: future deployments in specific countries outside of the US/NA
PARTNER ACCELERATION
API for continuous delivery of the AppSource apps via Azure DevOps services.
Relevant for: partners developing Apps for Business Central
MIGRATIONS TO BUSINESS CENTRAL ONLINE
Relevant for: existing Microsoft Dynamics customers migrating from NAV or GP
Migrate data from Business Central 14.x on-premises to Business Central 15.x online
Enhanced Dynamics GP Chart of Accounts migration
Migrate all or only active customer master records from Dynamics GP
Migrate all or only active vendor master records from Dynamics GP
Enhanced Dynamics GP inventory data migration
MODERN CLIENTS
Disable export of data to Excel
Relevant for: all Business Central users
Enable non-interactive printing with advanced printer selection
Relevant for: all Business Central users
Enhanced mobile accessibility related to device orientation
Relevant for: All Business Central Phone/Tablet App users
Import profiles and UI customizations
Relevant for: all BC users - with custom/tailored Role Centers and related Pages
Improved load time for pages
Improvements to data entry
Relevant for: all BC users
Improvements to filters and views on lists
Relevant for: all BC users
Improvements to pages composed of multiple parts
Relevant for: all BC users
Navigate trees more easily
Relevant for: all BC users
Unhide parts on a page
Relevant for: all BC users
Collapse and expand document lines
Relevant for: all BC users
MODERN DEVELOPER TOOLS
Relevant for: Business Central developers
Application version for aliasing base application
Relevant for: Business Central developers
Camera/location AL API available in the browser
Relevant for: Business Central developers
Look up events and insert event subscriber in code
Relevant for: Business Central developers
Multiple variable declarations of the same type in the same line
Relevant for: Business Central developers
Obsolete tag and URL properties
Relevant for: Business Central developers
Ability to refactor a field from a table to a table extension
Relevant for: BC developers for On Premise customers with customizations to standard tables.
ONBOARDING
Relevant for: new Business Central deployments
POWER PLATFORM
Business Central integration with Common Data Service
SERVICE FUNDAMENTALS
Resource limits for reports and web service calls
Relevant for: all Business Central users
Telemetry in Application Insights for partners
Relevant for: all Partners, on behalf of all customers
Read scale-out
Relevant for: all Business Central users
Segment 4 - Attachment and Links in Business Central
Attachments
You can attach any type of file, containing text, image, or video, to a card or document. This is useful, for example, when you want to store a vendor’s invoice as a PDF file on the related purchase invoice in Business Central.
Links
You can add a link from a card or document to any URL or path. This is useful, for example, when you want to link an item card with the supplier’s item catalog.
In the App: Cannot past link into Link Address Field! Works in the web browser.
Segment 5 – 5 Steps To Take Before Purchasing and App
1. Talk with your Microsoft Partner. Tell them what pain you are experiencing that is causing you to investigate apps. You may not even need an app. Business Central might have the functionality that you are wanting, but if not, your partner can make recommendations on Apps. Microsoft Partners, and especially Gold Microsoft ERP Partners, have worked with numerous amounts of ISVs for all types of applications
2. Go to Microsoft AppSource and explore the different apps. Most reputable ISVs that have designed apps will be listed on AppSource.
3. View Documents, pictures, and videos in AppSource about the app.
4. Google the app and see if there are more videos, a website, and what others are saying about the app.
5. Research the ISV
How long have they been in business?
What does your partner know about them?
Google the organization and see what others are saying.
Check out their website. Does it appear to be modern and up to date?
Do they have other apps? If so, see what others have said about them.
Closing Statement
Thanks everyone for listening, you can find the show notes and links on our website www.solsyst.com.
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On next month’s episode we’ll give some first-hand accounts of how well some of the new features work within Business Central so be sure to listen. See ya then!