Planned for release between the months of April and September 2020, there are lots of features available for Business Central wave 1 2020. We are very excited about what Microsoft have been developing as every release brings a host of new functionality!
Under the 'Enabled for' column, the definitions are as follows:
- 'End users, automatically' - these new features are applied automatically and enhance the experience of the end user
- 'Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically' - these new features are applied automatically but for admins, makers or analysts, rather than end users
- 'End users by admins, makers or analysts' - to become available for end users, these new features have to be enabled or configured by admins, makers or analysts
Application enhancements
Microsoft are constantly working on improvements based on the feedback they receive from users. This wave of enhancements, for example, includes improvement to bank reconciliation functionality from suggestions posted to their own ideas site. If you would like to make any suggestions, make yourself heard by following this link to the Microsoft site.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Extend ListPlus pages previously based on the Date virtual table | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | - | April 2020 |
| Multiple languages | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | - | April 2020 |
| Auto-insert recurring sales and purchase lines | End users, automatically | Feb 1, 2020 | April 2020 |
| Enhanced customer and vendor document layout | End users, automatically | Feb 1, 2020 | April 2020 |
| Manage direct-debit collections in Service Management | End users, automatically | Feb 1, 2020 | April 2020 |
| Notify requester about all changes for an approval request | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | Feb 1, 2020 | April 2020 |
| Print to attachment | End users, automatically | Feb 1, 2020 | April 2020 |
| Receive more items than ordered | End users, automatically | Feb 1, 2020 | April 2020 |
| Register capacity in units of seconds | End users, automatically | Feb 1, 2020 | April 2020 |
| Revert Qty. to Invoice when canceling order | End users, automatically | Feb 1, 2020 | April 2020 |
| Bank reconciliation improvements | End users, automatically | March 2020 | May 2020 |
Country and regional availability
As companies around the world choose Business Central, country and regional availability is key. Therefore, Microsoft are always developing for this and plan to make six new regionalisations available in the April 2020 release.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Expanded country and regional availability | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | - | April 2020 |
Migrations to Business Central online
Microsoft will continue to enhance the application through their focus on performance in the most used areas. The Dynamics 365 Business Central Ideas site continues to be a source for application enhancements.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Enhanced Dynamics GP Chart of Accounts migration | End users by admins, makers, or analysts | March 2020 | April 2020 |
| Migrate all or only active customer master records from Dynamics GP | End users by admins, makers, or analysts | March 2020 | April 2020 |
| Migrate all or only active vendor master records from Dynamics GP | End users by admins, makers, or analysts | March 2020 | April 2020 |
| End users by admins, makers, or analysts | April 2020 | April 2020 | |
| Migrate data from Business Central 14.x on-premises to Business Central 15.x online |
End users by admins, makers, or analysts | April 2020 | April 2020 |
Modern clients
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collapse and expand document lines | End users, automatically | Feb 1, 2020 | April 2020 |
| Disable export of data to Excel | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | Feb 1, 2020 | April 2020 |
| Enable non-interactive printing with advanced printer selection | End users, automatically | Feb 2020 | April 2020 |
| Enhanced mobile accessibility related to device orientation | End users, automatically | Feb 2020 | April 2020 |
| Enter data more easily | End users, automatically | Feb 1, 2020 | April 2020 |
| Import profiles and UI customisations | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | Feb 1, 2020 | April 2020 |
| Improved load time for pages | End users, automatically | Feb 1, 2020 | April 2020 |
| Improvements to pages composed of multiple parts | End users, automatically | Feb 1, 2020 | April 2020 |
| Navigate trees more easily | End users, automatically | Feb 1, 2020 | April 2020 |
| Unhide parts on a page | End users, automatically | Feb 1, 2020 | April 2020 |
| Use filters and views more easily | End users, automatically | Feb 1, 2020 | April 2020 |
Modern developer tools
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| AL interfaces | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | Feb 1, 2020 | April 2020 |
| Application version for aliasing base application | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | Feb 1, 2020 | April 2020 |
| Camera/location AL API available in the browser | End users by admins, makers or analysts | Feb 1, 2020 | April 2020 |
| Look up events and insert event subscriber in code |
Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | Feb 1, 2020 | April 2020 |
| Multiple variable declarations of the same type in the same line | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | Feb 1, 2020 | April 2020 |
| Obsolete tag property | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | Feb 1, 2020 | April 2020 |
| Ability to refactor a field from a table to a table extension | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | March 2020 | April 2020 |
Onboarding
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| AL interfaces | End users, automatically | April 2020 | April 2020 |
Partner acceleration
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| API for continuous delivery of the AppSource apps via Azure DevOps services |
Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | April 2020 | July 2020 |
Power Platform
We're really excited about this feature! This will automate the synchronisation of information, for example customers and suppliers will be synchronised with the Common Data Model.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business Central integration with Common Data Service |
End users, automatically | Feb 1, 2020 | April 2020 |
Service Fundamentals
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ability to see current database locks | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | April 2020 | April 2020 |
| Ability to see table sizes | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | April 2020 | April 2020 |
| Ability to view a list of sessions and cancel one or more of them | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | April 2020 | April 2020 |
| Performance of web service requests and reports added to Application Insights telemetry for partners | End users by admins, makers or analysts | April 2020 | April 2020 |
| Read scale-out | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | April 2020 | April 2020 |
| Resource limits for reports and web service calls | End users, automatically | April 2020 | April 2020 |
We're really excited with every release of Business Central, as we now benefit from
updates twice a year! Watch this space for release news as and when Microsoft announce them.
Interested in learning more about the journey of Dynamics 365 Business Central, including what came before it and the latest updates? Get caught up by reading our Timeline.
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