What's New: Business Central Integration with Power Platform (2023 release wave 2)

Overview

The video covers what changed in the Business Central integration with Power Platform in 2023 release wave 2. Most of it is Power Automate: a new action on approval-enabled pages to create approval workflows, improved approval templates, 17 new automated templates based on business events, new instant templates, and flows that work across companies and environments.

It also covers connector changes, including the V2 action deprecation and a higher webhook row limit. It then goes through Power Apps canvas apps, Dataverse virtual tables and their setup, Power Pages integration, and Power BI embed improvements with scorecard support.

Key points

• Approval workflow templates can be created from a new action on pages that support approvals. Templates now support real requester details, adaptive cards in Teams and cancel scenarios.
• The Power Automate integration and templates must be turned on in feature management for upgraded environments. They are on by default for new environments, including sandboxes on the 2023 wave 2 preview.
• 17 new automated flow templates trigger on external business events, for example customer blocking or purchase order release. The business events concept is still in preview.
• A new List Companies action in the connector returns all companies in an environment. Flows no longer need a company specified to list API categories or tables. Dataverse environment variables are supported, and AL-Go for GitHub also supports environment variables.
• Webhook notifications to Power Automate rise from 100 rows to 1,000 rows.
• V2 connector actions will be hidden from December. Existing production flows keep working, but editing them requires updating to V3 actions.
• Dataverse virtual tables for Business Central are going to be generally available later this year. Assisted setup lets you enable tables one by one or in bulk.

Features

AL objects mentioned

As heard in the captions. A name that matches one object page by exact type and name links to it; the others stay as named.

• other “automate group” at 3:00
• other “Adaptive card” at 14:45

Quotes

• 2:22 “we actually and changed the icon theme for the business Central connectors so now it is easier for you to distinguish the online version”
• 4:01 “all of those are features enabled in feature management so if you have a business Central tenant or environment that has been upgraded from”
• 5:22 “we have added 17 new automated templates that are based on external business events uh so these templates allow to allow the notification on”
• 8:43 “in this way you don’t even need to specify company to list API categories or tables for any action or trigger of the connector”
• 9:24 “we have now added a new action in the connector called list companies it allows you to get all the business Central companies for”
• 11:55 “the concept of business events is is new in business Central and it’s still in preview but that allows you to react on special”
• 13:16 “this demo we will start with business Central client so we’ll start with the single Consolidated place for creating approvals based on templates”
• 16:06 “before there was a limit of 100 rows only and right now it’s uh 1,000 so we changed that 10f and that allows you”
• 16:47 “from December this year all of those V2 actions will be hidden and you won’t be able to see them again uh but for”
• 19:25 “this technology virtual tables for business Central uh is going to be generally available later this year”
• 19:42 “in later in this year we will um deliver a preview version of our integration”
• 20:02 “you will be able to build uh portals or uh websites that are exposed externally that are available to your customer so think about”
• 21:00 “we have made some significant changes to make it easier for you to control what you see and how you see especially when you”
• 21:54 “in business Central integration with Power Platform we offer multiple Technologies starting with powerbi and powerbi connector through our standard Core Power Platform connector”

Disclaimers in the video

• 4:21 preview: if you’re creating a new uh environment in business Central or a Sandbox environment with preview version of business Central 2023 wave two this is enabled by default
• 11:55 preview: the concept of business events is is new in business Central and it’s still in preview
• 16:47 coming-later: from December this year all of those V2 actions will be hidden
• 19:25 coming-later: this technology virtual tables for business Central uh is going to be generally available later this year
• 19:42 preview: in later in this year we will um deliver a preview version of our integration
• 20:22 preview: this will be a a preview optin experience at the beginning

Presenters (as heard): Buaji Koto, Monica Alja, BL.