What’s new with Business Central? Release Wave 1 2022 Notes

Enhancements to Microsoft Teams Integration

In this release wave, we enhance cards with the following:

• The details window now occupies more space on the screen, showing more fields and actions at once. This includes automatically displaying the FactBox pane if space allows.
• From the Details window, you can open the full Business Central experience in the browser.

Outlook add-in – add email attachments to Business Central records

Business Central saves time and reduces context switching by helping you quickly connect email attachments to the business record they relate to, without leaving Outlook.

The Outlook add-in now offers the option to copy email attachments to the record displayed in the add-in

Share a file through OneDrive

To share a report from the Report Inbox or to share an attachment to a record, you can now choose the Share action. This action copies the file from Business Central to OneDrive for Business, then displays the file sharing dialog in Business Central with numerous options.

Business Central grants access to the file in OneDrive for your chosen recipients: the permissions to the current record and file in Business Central remain unchanged.

Country/regional expansion – Angola

Allow security administrator to define default permission set assignments when user is signing up

Business Central security administrators can define which permission sets or user groups are assigned by default to a user when they sign up. Specifying which permission sets or user groups are relevant for a license or plan helps the administrator ensure that the user has the right access from the start.

Updating only licensed users form Microsoft 365 runs faster and more efficiently

Updating users from Microsoft 365 runs faster and more efficiently with this update.

Delegated admin’s job queue entries are run by user

This release wave adds support for the delegated admin to create job queue entries and set them as ready to run. Then, a licensed user from the customer can start the job queue entry to complete the process that the delegated admin created.

Permission set handling enhancements

In 2022 release wave 1, admin users can leverage the permission sets and group them based on a tenant’s needs, visualize which permission sets are included in a given set, include others, and finetune them as needed.

Dataverse data change events

With the Business Central virtual tables solution for Dataverse, the Business Central API is exposed as tables in Dataverse. This way, makers can build apps with Power Apps that leverage the virtual tables as if they were native Dataverse tables.

Action group to run chosen instant Power Automate flow

With this release, you can boost your business management system by customizing using Power Automate instant actions launched from any card page. Run workflows of your choice and command Business Central to trigger actions based on Power Automate, e.g., send an update via Teams or email, update the order status, notify your warehouse about changed delivery, etc.

Improvements to the Power Automate and Power Apps connector

In this release wave, we add new capabilities to the Power Automate and Power Apps connector, so you can start using Business Central with Power Automate and Power Apps with greater confidence. The following list shows the specific enhancements to the connector:

• Support for finding data, filtering, and sorting
• Support for adding related records (data from both header and lines of documents)
• Improved reliability
• Potential removal of the Preview label

Copy link from Share menu

With the introduction of this feature, users benefit from quicker access to page links, similar to how this is done in Office applications. Users can now copy page links from the installable app or when Business Central is embedded in other apps, such as in Microsoft Teams.

New desktop app delivering full web client experience on desktop is listed in the Microsoft Store

In 2021 release wave 2, it became possible to install Business Central as an app from the browser window. With this release wave, we make this app easily discoverable in the Microsoft Store.

The Progressive Web App-based desktop app is in the Microsoft Store and can be installed for both Business Central online and on-premises solutions.

Usability improvements to the web client

In 2022 release wave 1, we introduce several additional enhancements to the usability of the web client:

• When you navigate to related entities using the Peek feature for entities where the card or document page is not present, the Peek feature offers a new Open full list option so that you can go to the relevant list.
• Improved behaviour of lookups on dynamic fields, such as the Description field on sales documents, lets you choose an item but also enter a custom description.
• When a FastTab expands, the page scrolls up so the next FastTab caption is visible.

Context-aware links in the Help pane from Microsoft and partners

In 2022 release wave 1, Dynamics 365 Business Central will be able to serve context-aware links to guidance and learning to help flatten the learning curve and unblock the individual user in performing business processes.

Guided tour that helps users find settings and personalisation tools

Some roles can take a tour of their Home page, the Role Center, as the first task in their Get Started checklist. This tour will now be expanded with more steps to highlight where to find settings and options for personalization in the Settings menu. This is important, especially in non-evaluation companies where users want to dive into settings or change their role to a more relevant one.

Support for rich text in teaching tips and tours

In 2022 release wave 1, we expand the capability to allow Microsoft and partners to mark up rich text in the teaching tips to provide even clearer descriptions. You can also add a link to other in-app entities from a teaching tip, which supports users in finding and understanding business process flows more easily.

Tour of the Role Explorer and how to filter it

Dynamics 365 2022 release wave 1 adds a Role Center tour that nudges users to navigate the Role Explorer. When they go there, they’ll be offered a mini-tour that explains how the Role Explorer is structured and how they can filter the view to see, for example, Reporting & Analysis or Administration. Once they understand the filtering mechanism, it’s easier for users to see the breadth of reporting options or get a view of all setup-related pages.

New capabilities for financial reporting with account schedules

In Business Central, account schedules are the main tool for creating user-defined financial reports. This release provides new capabilities for account schedules that make it easier for people to produce reports in the layout they desire.

Use Excel to design layouts for reports

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

Performance – partners can get insights into database wait statistics

With this capability, the Business Central platform will make data about database wait statistics as a virtual table, so that the data can be accessed from AL code. We will also add a page on top of the new table to make it easy to get the data without having to write code.

Telemetry – error dialogs are logged to telemetry

When a user gets an error dialog, it is logged to telemetry. Partners can get insights into which errors users get in their setup and help users get unblocked.

Telemetry – support engineers can now see user IDs in telemetry

The Business Central platform will emit a pseudo user ID to telemetry. This will allow a troubleshooter to identify which data in telemetry corresponds to a given user.

Telemetry – the action of enabling detailed telemetry is logged to telemetry

When a user enables detailed telemetry from the Help and Support page, the action is also logged to telemetry. A follow-up event is logged when the session leaves detailed logging.

This will make troubleshooting much easier for a support employee because it will be easy to identify the session that had detailed logging enabled.

Telemetry – when a database deadlock occurs, it is logged to telemetry

Partners can get insights into database deadlocks in an environment and help users be unblocked.