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Dynamics 365 Business Central 2020 release wave 1

Written by Beth Walters | Mar 10, 2020 9:34:55 AM

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
Click on the links below to get more detail on each of the updates via Microsoft's website.
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

Enhanced Dynamics GP
inventory data migration

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.