Company information data set
Company information data set
A company information data set is always shipped with Word layouts, so authors need not add it themselves. It is useful for header and footer layouts.
Area: Reporting and analytics. Status: GA. Developer relevance: high. Airtime: 1 min across 1 video, demoed.
Status evidence
- Nothing said about status; launch event convention: generally available unless stated otherwise.
Where they talk about it
Quotes
- 0:44 "looking at the report objects we noticed that there is a lot of repetition in the data set" - Explains why the company information data set was introduced.
- 1:00 "you don't need to encode any of the data uh in company information that's available for you right away" - Report developers no longer have to add company information to the report data set for Word layouts.
Caveats mentioned
- Content is whatever is in the company information card in Business Central
Documented features match
- Reduce complexity of report datasets - high confidence (llm). Docs say: General availability, roadmap id 573321. Shared company information dataitem
Docs checked on 2026-10-02: the match is against Microsoft's what's new pages for the wave as they were on that date. Microsoft keeps filling the documentation, so "no documented item" can go stale. The wider product documentation on learn.microsoft.com was searched for this feature on the same date; the feature's data lists an article when one was found.
Tags: word-layout, report-dataset, header-footer, reporting
Generated by pipeline step 06. Source: YouTube auto-captions of the launch event videos, see the deep links. Not official.