Business Central October 2019 Feature Update

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central currently is scheduled to have two major releases a year, one during the Spring season and one during the Fall season.

Here's some of the features that are planned:

Application Enhancements

• Cancel issued reminders and finance charge memos

• Carry line descriptions to general ledger entries when posting

• Write larger item cross-reference numbers

Application Lifecycle Management

• Ability to download a database backup file

• Improvements in update testing and preparation

• Multiple production environments

• New option to report production outage in Business Central Administration Center

• Support for performant data upgrade from C/AL tables to AL tables

Migrations to Business Central Online

• Enhancements for customer migration tools

Modern Clients

• Add links to your navigation menu

• Customize a user profile without writing code

• Enhancements to Excel integration

• Filtering option fields by multiple values

• Full keyboard shortcut support

• Multi-tasking across multiple pages

• Personalize actions and navigation on your Home page

• Powerful filtering for reports

• Resize columns with less clicks

• Saving and personalizing list views

• Speed and agility of data entry

• Switch between companies in your Business Inbox in Outlook

• Add notes and links to data

• Easy access to capability overview

• Modern clients only for Business Central

Modern Developer Tools

• Access modifiers

• Attach and debug next

• Base application delivered as AL applications

• Code documentation attributes

• Database insights made available in AL

• Improved app dependency handling on build and deploy

• More power to developers using Designer

• Translating other extensions

Empower ISV Acceleration

• Design for extensibility

Service Fundamentals

• Lock-free number series

• New Support Request option in the Business Central Administration Center

• Page Background Tasks

• Partners can enter support details in the Business Central Administration Center

• Surrogate keys

According to Microsoft, description of Enabled for column values:

• End users, automatically – These features include change(s) to the user experience for end users and are enabled automatically.

• Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically – These features are meant to be used by administrators, makers, or business analysts and are enabled automatically.

• End users by admins, makers, or analysts – These features must be enabled or configured by the administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their end users.

For a list of the countries or regions where Dynamics 365 business applications are available, see the International availability guide.

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