New Application Ideas of Dynamics 365 Business Central (2025 MAY)
The post presents a comprehensive list of feature improvement ideas submitted to Dynamics 365 Business Central for May 2025, organized by functional areas including finance, sales, inventory, manufacturing, and more. It serves as a resource for developers, consultants, and users seeking proposed enhancements across all Business Central modules.
post Gerardo Rentería Blog
"Would any of these ideas improve Business Central? Here is a list of some of them."
Key points
- The post lists community improvement ideas for Business Central from May 2025, grouped by area such as data migration, development, finance, inventory, manufacturing, sales, purchasing, service and tenant administration.
- Development ideas include CSVBuffer export with varying column counts, GetType/GetSubType for Variants, preprocessors in app.json, an event in the Transfer Extended Text codeunit and parallel AppSource version delivery.
- Finance ideas cover Intrastat statistical value and country of origin, bank reconciliation changes, additional-currency amounts in posting previews and source currency VAT amounts in VAT entries.
- General ideas include Copilot assessing business rules in description fields, vision-enabled OpenAI model support, tri-state lock timeout tracking and Mandatory Fields for non-developers.
- Localization and sales ideas include EU VAT validation, E-Documents line types, OSS reporting for Austria and several Shopify Connector requests.
Quotes
- “Would any of these ideas improve Business Central? Here is a list of some of them.” (Sets the purpose of the post as a curated collection of community-sourced feature suggestions for Business Central improvement.)
AL objects mentioned
As named in the post. A name that matches one object page by exact type and name links to it; the others stay as named.
- table “CSVBuffer”
- codeunit 378 “Transfer Extended Text”
- table 1173 “Document Attachment”
- table “Vendor Invoice Discount”
- table “VAT entries”
- table “Vendor Ledger Entries”
- table “Security Groups”
- page 379 “Bank Acc. Reconciliation”
- page 30 “Item Card”
Not found in BC28-30: table “CSVBuffer”, table “Vendor Invoice Discount”, table “VAT entries”, table “Vendor Ledger Entries”, table “Security Groups”.
Context
- Features: Edit in Excel for Sales and Purchase Prices, Copilot for business rules assessment, Vision-enabled OpenAI models support, Subscription Billing enhancements, Shopify Connector improvements, E-Documents support for other line types, Intrastat statistical value with item charges, Bank Account Reconciliation improvements, Power Automate PDF attachment retrieval, Mandatory Fields for non-developers
- Versions: 2025 May
Source: Gerardo Renteria, community blog. Summary, key points and quotes are derived (CONTENT-NOTICE.md); read the original for the full text.