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title: Show recently used in lookups
summary: "User experiences: Show recently used in lookups. Generally available, GA 2026-10 (Microsoft 365 roadmap). Business Central now highlights recently used records directly in lookup dialogs. When users open a lookup, the system surfaces records they have recently accessed or worked with, making it easier to select the correct value without performing a search. The suggestions are personalized to each user and are based on usage signals already collected by the platform."
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    title: Microsoft 365 roadmap 573368
    date: "2026-09-30"
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    title: "Business Central 2026 Wave 2 (v29): 2 Productivity Features You’ll Use Daily: Recently Used Records in Lookups"
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wave: 2026 release wave 2
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# Show recently used in lookups

> User experiences: Show recently used in lookups. Generally available, GA 2026-10 (Microsoft 365 roadmap). Business Central now highlights recently used records directly in lookup dialogs. When users open a lookup, the system surfaces records they have recently accessed or worked with, making it easier to select the correct value without performing a search. The suggestions are personalized to each user and are based on usage signals already collected by the platform.

[Microsoft 365 roadmap 573368](https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/roadmap?id=573368) · User experiences · generally available · roadmap status "Launched", phase General Availability

## What Microsoft says

Business Central now highlights recently used records directly in lookup dialogs. When users open a lookup, the system surfaces records they have recently accessed or worked with, making it easier to select the correct value without performing a search. The suggestions are personalized to each user and are based on usage signals already collected by the platform. The feature reuses the same server-side intelligence that supports Autofill and recent-record scenarios, ensuring consistent recommendations across Business Central experiences. The feature makes Business Central feel more responsive and personalized by adapting lookup suggestions to each user's working patterns. It reduces repetitive data entry, speeds up transaction processing, and helps users stay focused on their work. By reusing existing server intelligence already powering Autofill experiences, the feature delivers a consistent and efficient way to surface the most relevant records across the application. Business Value: Finding the right record in a lookup is a common task throughout Business Central, but users often select the same customers, vendors, items, projects, or dimensions repeatedly during the day. By showing recently used records at the top of lookup dialogs, users can find and select frequently accessed data faster, with fewer searches and less navigation.

## Dates

- General availability: October CY2026 (2026 release wave 2)
- Public preview: not given
- On the roadmap since 2026-09-30, last changed 2026-09-30

## Covered by

Matched by Haiku among videos and Learn pages in the same galaxy system, checked against the roadmap ids and the evidence text. Every link below was reviewed by Opus.

### Videos

- [Business Central 2026 Wave 2 (v29): 2 Productivity Features You’ll Use Daily](../videos/wS1wVBhNafk.md): Recently Used Records in Lookups at [6:22](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS1wVBhNafk&t=382s)

Source: Microsoft 365 roadmap. Status words follow the roadmap.