Stay up-to-date on Dynamics 365 - December 2021 update

The digital world is always evolving and improving. As your trusted digital transformation partner, we want to keep you up-to-date on any changes you may experience due to updates in your IT system. In December 2021, there will be an exciting update of Dynamics 365 that will be implemented automatically. Discover the changes here!

Most of the updates will have no impact on your processes within the organisation, but since the look and feel of the system is changing a bit, it will have an impact on the users.

We’ll be guiding you through these exciting features. Now, without further ado, let’s dive into it.

 

 

 

Application

Item Enhancements

Add Non-Inventory items on requisition and planning worksheets.

Rounding for base unit of Measures.

Item Variant on demand forecast and Production BOMs and routes on stockkeeping units in planning scenarios.

Setup for forcast on Variants.

Item Cross References becomes Item References but should be enabled or disabled from Inventory Setup.

 

User Experience

Default Line type in sales and purchase documents

Improved User experience to keep posting setup and dimensions issues from going wrong by an improved error logging. Not only give the error as feedback but also give to possibility to go direct to the correct feature to solve the data issue.

  • Description column shows detail about the error
  • Source and Source Field Name columns point to the setup page where the error occurred, and link to a page where you can resolve the issue.
  • Support URL column provides a link to a troubleshooting guide if available

Posting Preview can now show G/L and VAT entries in hierarchical view and is easily extensible

Hierarchical view in Posting preview

 

Reporting

The description of the standard Microsoft Reports are now available on the documentation platform of Microsoft : 

Export report Data set to Excel is now also available

Export to Excel Document (data only)

 

Improvements to email story

Sending directly an email from contacts, customer or vendor using the word templates for this new feature.

Word templates are not only related to one BC entity but now to multiple BC entities.  This can from now also be used again in the feature "Interaction Templates"

 

Modern Client

Accelerate data Entry

Unhindered data entry across rows.  In any editable list you can easily type or use F8 to quickly fill next row, fill out column after column and navigate freely and edit cells.

Explore Business Central

Improvements to Role Explorer.  Reporting & Analysis and Administration are added in the Role Explorer, next to those new capabilities are also the layout updated of the control actions and an updated "find" feature. 

 

Peek at the related Record

Updated visuals of the releated record "peek", gives you access to the most essential information.  For this new feature used a less disruptive dotted underline indicator.  This feature works on list type pages and entity pages in VIEW mode.

 

Access from any device

Mobile Friendly

Document Attachments are now also available on mobile devices. Version 3.4 of the mobile app (iOS and Android) provides updated components including support for iOS 15, new PDF viewer for Android, Improved mobile app experience such as login, visuals and accessibility.

Introducing updated desktop installable app (PWA - Progressive Web App)

The new PWA based desktop app and experience.

Available for cloud and on-premise. Use all the rich feature of modern web client, switch easily between environments.  Choose to install and use different apps per each environment and pin the Business central app to your taskbar.

The new app experience released in 2021 w2 based on PWA will become the default installable app for computers running Windows. ​​​​​​​

 

Better with Microsoft 365

OneDrive

Available for select features :

  • Attachments
  • Report Inbox
  • Incoming Documents

Teams

New Share menu, Share a list, saved view or details page.  Excel, word and PowerPoint documents open in their native web applications.  The files will be copied to the following structure Business Central > Company Folder.  When the file exists the question will be popped up to keep both or replace.

Available only for Business Central Online

Excel

Edit in Excel in recurring general journals and intercompany general journals but also already available from several pages in Business Central.