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New Application Ideas of Dynamics 365 Business Central (2026 MAY)

A curated list of feature ideas and improvement suggestions submitted by the Business Central community for May 2026, covering areas including agents and Copilot, data migrations, financial management, inventory, warehousing, sales, purchasing, and localization enhancements.

post Gerardo Rentería Blog

Gerardo Renteria · 2026-06-01 · 911 words · about 4 min

"Would any of these ideas improve Business Central? Here is a list of some of them."

Key points

  • Community-submitted ideas for May 2026 are grouped by area, from data migrations and development to finance, purchasing, sales and warehousing
  • Development and general ideas include a ShowAsTree property for list pages, more SharePoint Graph methods, index and key usage telemetry, and a timezone setting on the Microsoft Entra Applications page
  • Finance ideas cover changing VAT product posting groups after prepayment, bank reconciliation improvements, Belgium VAT VIES corrections and stock received or shipped not invoiced reports
  • Localization requests include a Norwegian chart of accounts for demo data and India TDS thresholds based on PAN number
  • Purchasing and operations ideas include a GLN field on Order Address, a responsibility centre on vendor ledger entries, physical inventory approval workflows and double units of measure in manufacturing

Quotes

  • “Would any of these ideas improve Business Central? Here is a list of some of them.” (Establishes the purpose of the post as presenting community-driven improvement suggestions for the platform)

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.

Not found in BC28-30: page “Microsoft Entra Applications”, table “Vendor Ledger Entries”.

Context

  • Features: configuration package defaults, timezone settings, telemetry for database indexes, VAT product posting group management, bank reconciliation, physical inventory workflows, unit of measure handling, responsibility center tracking
  • Versions: 2026 May, 28.0

Source: Gerardo Renteria, community blog. Summary, key points and quotes are derived (CONTENT-NOTICE.md); read the original for the full text.