What's New: Marketing Text Suggestions (2023 release wave 2)
Marketing text suggestions in Business Central is generally available as of the 2023 release wave 2 minor update. It is online (SaaS) only and supports eight languages. The video covers the GA UI changes, the feature toggles, the data movement consent and the new developer tools for copilot.
- Introduction and announcement of GA status
- Presenters and agenda overview
- Demo tour and marketing text feature overview
- GA improvements and editing capabilities
- Edit dialogue features and user experience feedback
- GA recap and availability details
- Deployment timeline, language support, and assessment process
- User feedback mechanisms and feature toggles
- Setup instructions and configuration requirements
- Summary, developer resources, and call to action
Overview
The video announces that marketing text suggestions, a copilot capability that drafts product descriptions from item attributes, has left preview and is generally available. It demos the item page fact box, prompt customization (attributes, tone, format, emphasis), regeneration with kept versions, likes and dislikes, and a redesigned edit dialog for manual editing.
It then covers rollout and setup: the update arrives in a wave 2 minor update, the feature expands from English to eight languages, and several toggles control availability. It ends by noting that the feature was rebuilt on new developer tools for copilot that partners can use for their own extensions.
Key points
- Marketing text suggestions is generally available, and the preview label is removed from the fact box.
- It is available only in Business Central online (SaaS), not on-premises. All future copilot capabilities are also online only.
- Supported languages are English, Spanish, Dutch, German, Italian, French, Danish and Japanese. Preview supported English only. More languages are to be announced later.
- The feature key ‘Create AI powered product descriptions with co-pilot’ in Feature Management controls the fact box and UI. It is on by default for environments created in version 22 (2023 release wave 1) or later, and must be enabled manually for upgrades from earlier versions.
- A toggle on the new ‘Copilot and AI capabilities’ page enables the generative capability. It is on by default and requires a supported user language.
- Data movement consent is off by default and needed only if AI is not available in the user’s region. An admin must give it.
- Users can pick attributes, tone, format and emphasis before generating. They can keep, discard or regenerate suggestions, and the edit dialog allows manual editing.
Features
| Feature | Status | At | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marketing Text Suggestions | generally available, demoed | 0:20 | “marketing Tech suggestions is no longer in preview it is now generally available” (1:00) |
| Fact Box UI for Marketing Text | status not stated, demoed | 2:20 | |
| Prompt Customization for Marketing Text | status not stated, demoed | 3:24 | |
| Marketing Text Regeneration and Versioning | status not stated, demoed | 4:05 | |
| Edit Dialog for Manual Text Editing | status not stated, demoed | 5:05 | |
| Copilot Signature Look and Feel | status not stated | 6:06 | |
| Language Support for Marketing Text Suggestions | status not stated | 7:27 | |
| Feature Toggle in Feature Management | status not stated | 9:45 | |
| Copilot and AI Capabilities Page Toggle | status not stated | 10:46 | |
| Data Movement Consent for AI | status not stated | 11:43 | |
| Developer Tools for Copilot in Business Central | status not stated | 13:04 | |
| Bank Account Reconciliation Assistance with Copilot | status not stated | 13:24 |
Quotes
- 1:00 “marketing Tech suggestions is no longer in preview it is now generally available”
- 6:46 “marketing text suggestions and in fact all of our co-pilot capabilities going forward are only available for business Central online what we also refer”
- 7:07 “the update to marketing Tech suggestions will be delivered in a minor update in wave two now just as a reminder wave two minor”
- 7:47 “finally along with English we’re also expanding to seven more more languages in which this feature is available uh that includes Spanish Dutch German”
- 8:29 “due to the very nature of AI uh before we claim that any AI powered feature is supported in so and so languages what”
- 10:26 “this is enabled by default for environments that have been created since uh 2023 release Wave 1 so you might know that as version”
- 13:04 “marketing Tech suggestions has been rebuilt on our new developer tools for co-pilot in business Central uh which means that you can now design”
Disclaimers in the video
- 0:40 preview: throughout the preview of marketing Tech suggestions we’ve received some incredibly encouraging and positive feedback
- 3:04 preview: coming from preview straight away you’ll see that this uh there’s no reference to preview text anymore in the fact box
- 8:50 coming-later: we’re already hard at work with verifying the next batch of languages which we will announce later on for this particular feature
- 12:04 subject-to-change: hopefully this additional setup step uh will will go away in the future
Presenters (as heard): Mik B Cardona, Sam van leart.