What's New: Analysis Assist with Copilot (2024 release wave 2)
Analysis Assist with Copilot in Business Central, in preview in 2024 release wave 2: four tips for asking questions on list pages, reviewing generated analysis tabs, using prompt guides and starting from the chat pane. Covers the wave 2 history of manual adjustments and testing in 20 languages.
- Introduction to Analysis Assist and 2024 Wave 2 improvements
- Tip 1: Pick the right list and ask initial questions
- How Copilot adds hidden fields and layout generation
- Tip 2: Review and adjust Copilot-created layouts
- Reviewing filters, columns and adjustments with history
- Tip 3: Keep prompts simple and use prompt guides
- Language support and testing for Analysis Assist
- Tip 4: Start analysis from the chat pane
- Recap and call to action
Overview
The video, published 2024-10-08 and about 9 minutes long, shows what changed in Analysis Assist for 2024 release wave 2. It is presented as four tips and uses the customer list and item list as examples. Analysis Assist is described as one of many Copilot capabilities and is in preview in this release wave.
The demo covers choosing the right list, asking a first question, and how Copilot surfaces hidden fields from list personalization into analysis tabs. It then shows reviewing filters and columns, the prompt history that now tracks manual adjustments, prompt guides, language support, and starting an analysis from the chat pane.
Key points
- Analysis Assist is in preview in 2024 release wave 2. Microsoft says it is more reliable, more powerful and more flexible in this wave, based on customer feedback.
- Start from the list that holds the data you want, for example the customer list for customer insights, and use the Copilot toolbar or menu to ask questions. Ctrl+Enter sends the prompt.
- Copilot can only use fields shown on the list page or in the right pane, including hidden fields available in list personalization. In the demo it added country and region code to a customer analysis even though that field was not on the list.
- New in wave 2: manual adjustments to an analysis tab are tracked in the prompt history, so you can move between versions and see which tab you prefer before choosing Keep it.
- Keep prompts simple. The prompt guides menu suggests prompts for freezing columns, sorting, filtering, grouping, math functions and pivoting.
- Analysis Assist has been tested and verified in 20 languages. Other languages can still be used, but may not perform as intended and results may vary.
- You can ask an analysis-type question in the Copilot chat pane. Copilot detects it, goes to the appropriate list and generates analysis tabs.
Features
| Feature | Status | At | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Analysis Assist | preview, demoed | 0:06 | “analysis assist is just one of many co-pilot capabilities and it’s in preview in 2024 release Wave 2” (0:06) |
| Copilot toolbar and menu | status not stated, demoed | 0:26 | |
| Field personalization through Analysis Assist | preview, demoed | 1:43 | “analysis assist is just one of many co-pilot capabilities and it’s in preview in 2024 release Wave 2” (0:06) |
| Analysis tab history and adjustments | preview, demoed | 4:00 | “analysis assist is just one of many co-pilot capabilities and it’s in preview in 2024 release Wave 2” (0:06) |
| Prompt guides | preview, demoed | 5:00 | “analysis assist is just one of many co-pilot capabilities and it’s in preview in 2024 release Wave 2” (0:06) |
| 20 supported languages for Analysis Assist | status not stated | 6:00 | |
| Analysis from chat pane | preview, demoed | 6:41 | “analysis assist is just one of many co-pilot capabilities and it’s in preview in 2024 release Wave 2” (0:06) |
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.
Not found in BC28-30: table “customer list”, table “item list”.
Quotes
- 0:06 “analysis assist is just one of many co-pilot capabilities and it’s in preview in 2024 release Wave 2”
- 0:26 “if you’re interested in insides for example about your customers you’d go to the customer list here you can use the co-pilot toolbar or”
- 1:43 “the country and region code are actually not on my uh my customer list uh so what happened here how did these hidden Fields”
- 2:44 “copilot can only help with fields that are here directly shown inside the list or fields that are shown in this pane on the”
- 4:00 “those manual adjustments are now added to the history here in the prompt dialogue”
- 6:00 “we have tested and verified analysis assist in 20 languages now so you can express yourself as you see fit”
- 7:15 “copilot just knows that certain questions are best answered or best expressed as an analysis tab so so it’ll detect that it’s that kind”
Disclaimers in the video
- 0:06 preview: analysis assist is just one of many co-pilot capabilities and it’s in preview in 2024 release Wave 2
- 6:20 subject-to-change: it may not perform as intended and results May Vary depending on your input and the context
Presenters (as heard): Mike.