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BC 2026 release wave 2unofficial launch event map, by waldo

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EDI in Business Central

GA · 4 min in 1 video · dev relevance medium · documented as Exchange EDI documents high match

EDI in Business Central

EDI is added to exchange order information between buyer and seller instead of sending email. It is built on the existing E-Documents technology and the PEPPOL format, with a log for each exchange.

Area: E-Documents. Status: GA. Developer relevance: medium. Airtime: 4 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

  • 0:48 "it was not possible to exchange this information and now we adding EDI functionality to the business central" - States that EDI is new and was not possible before in Business Central.
  • 1:14 "instead of sending email, they will be able just to release the order and then on the background it will generate the" - Shows the core design: releasing the order triggers e-document generation.
  • 2:23 "So we using our people uh format and uh the solution is based on the e documents themselves." - The solution reuses the PEPPOL format and E-Documents framework, so existing knowledge applies.
  • 2:38 "you will be able to set up uh the directions for the documents if it should be only inbound or outbound or both inbound and" - Each document type can be limited to inbound, outbound or both.
  • 3:21 "you will need to use electronic identifiers on both sides" - A setup prerequisite for exchanging documents between buyer and seller.

Caveats mentioned

  • The demo exchanges files manually by exporting and importing XML.

Prerequisites mentioned

  • Standard e-document setup in both companies

Documented features match

  • Exchange EDI documents - high confidence (llm). Docs say: Public preview, roadmap id 573305. EDI on E-Documents framework

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: e-documents, edi, peppol, api

Generated by pipeline step 06. Source: YouTube auto-captions of the launch event videos, see the deep links. Not official.