Field group design control
Field group design control
A design block for label and value pairs as a column grid, single or double stacked. It will be used in new body 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
- 4:05 "We're going to use these going forward for all the new body layouts in Business Central." - Design blocks are the standard for new body layouts, which affects how partners should build their own.
- 4:50 "amounts here are not necessarily calculating things but but visualizing calculations" - Clarifies a limitation: the amounts block only displays values and does not compute.
Caveats mentioned
- Not necessarily data bound for now
Documented features match
- Design document reports with the updated Word add-in - high confidence (llm). Docs say: General availability, roadmap id 573328. Field groups control
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, design-blocks, reporting, body-layout
Generated by pipeline step 06. Source: YouTube auto-captions of the launch event videos, see the deep links. Not official.