Microsoft has loads of exciting features hitting this month in the April 2022 release of Dynamics 365 Business Central. A few of the more popular updates are listed below. Microsoft delivers updates based on the most popular requests for improvement. They are investing in a strong reporting story, including better integrations with Excel. Also improved is the support for collaborative business processes in Teams so you can bring Business Central pages into a Teams channel.

  • New capabilities have been added for financial reporting with the out of the box account schedules. You can now control how the number zero is printed (0, blank or a dash line). You can use account categories as totaling filters for columns. Several other nice to have features are available.
  • You can now use Excel to create and edit layouts for reports.
  • Context-aware links in the Help pane to help flatten the learning curve for new users.
  • New guided tour to help users find settings and personalization tools.
  • The Share Menu in the web client now includes a Copy link action that copies the current page link to the clipboard. Several other copy links have been added as well.

  • This release includes minor visual updates such as a refreshed loading screen and updated iconography for specific system actions.
  • Navigation updates:
    • 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.
    • When a FastTab expands, the page scrolls up so the next FastTab caption is visible.
  • Data Entry Updates:
    • Improved behavior of lookups on fields with table relations, such as the Description field on sales documents. The new behavior creates a distinction between fields that are simply a lookup to a related table and fields that allow free text with the assistance of a dropdown menu to choose from a predefined value.
    • When a message dialog interrupts typing into the next field, the characters you entered are no longer discarded.
    • The web client preserves a few empty lines at the end of an editable list so that filling out data vertically across rows never runs out of space.
  • Deeper and expanded integration with Power Automate flow and improvements to the Power Apps connector.
  • System administrators can define default permission set assignments when users sign up.
  • User email policies can be set to control who can read email sent from Business Central.
  • 20 new countries have been added to bring the availability of Business Central to 70 counties now.
  • Tighter integration with Microsoft Teams allowing users to view and act on Business Central data from within Teams.

  • The Outlook add-in now offers the option to copy email attachments to the record displayed in the add-in field.
  • Report files may now be shared to OneDrive for Business.
  • A single tile is now used to access both production and sandbox environments of Business Central.
  • An auto-accept of intercompany transactions is now available to streamline accounting efficiently around interco transactions.
  • Blocking the deletion of any GL accounts is available to prevent accidental deletions of accounts.

  • The Payment Reconciliation journal has been improved with the following capabilities:
    • View fields for debits and credits on the footer of journals
    • Preview before posting option
  • The sell-to and bill-to customers can be different for jobs.

  • The Bank Account Statement report on the posted bank reconciliations has been modified so it now shows a more detailed snapshot of the bank information as of the time when the bank reconciliation was posted. New fields, G/L Balance, Outstanding Payments, and Checks, make it easier to validate and audit.
  • Change default bank account on sales and service documents.
  • Check documents and journal in while you work.
  • Consolidate customer and vendor balances.

  • Fixed Quantity in product bills of materials.
  • Log email using a shared mailbox.
  • More control over deferrals posting.
  • Create bank deposits automatically.
  • Shopify Connector is now available.
  • Release and reopen multiple documents.
  • Sync sales orders both ways in Business Central and CE (CRM) Sales.
  • Use different G/L accounts for payables and receivables transactions.

 

If you need further information on any of these new features or interested in Dynamics 365 Business Central, please reach out to us at Info@LBMCTech.com and we’d be glad to help.