Citations, progress messages and sources
Citations, progress messages and sources
Answers include clickable citation pills, progress messages and a sources button listing what the AI used.
Area: Copilot and agents. Status: GA. Developer relevance: low. Airtime: 2 min across 1 video, demoed.
Status evidence
- Nothing said about status; launch event convention: generally available unless stated otherwise.
Where they talk about it
- What's new: Demystifying the New Microsoft Copilot Chat in Business Central: 13:18 to 14:48, demo at 2:13 (called "Citations, progress messages and sources button" there)
Quotes
- 14:17 "you might see a sources button and when you click on that you can see all the things that copilot saw" - Describes how users can inspect what Copilot looked at versus what it cited.
- 14:48 "we don't want you to guess, we want you to verify and be confident that the response are exactly what you're looking for" - States the design intent behind citations and verification features.
Documented features match
- Enable Microsoft Copilot chat experience - medium confidence (llm). Docs say: Public preview, roadmap id 573362. Chat panel modernization
- Product documentation (partial, the article describes the broader feature or mentions this in passing): Use Microsoft Copilot in Business Central (preview), checked 2026-10-02. When results have citations, select the citation result in the side pane to navigate to the page. Note: Article is marked prerelease / production-ready preview documentation for the new Microsoft Copilot in Business Central (version 29). Citations covered; progress messages and the sources button are not described.
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.
Tags: copilot, citations, trust, ux
Generated by pipeline step 06. Source: YouTube auto-captions of the launch event videos, see the deep links. Not official.