What's Cooking in Business Central: Limiting the Available Product Languages
Allowed languages administration in Business Central 2025 wave 1: administrators limit which product languages users can pick in their personal settings. The video demos the admin setup and the filtered language list, and says a community member contributed it through a pull request.
- Introduction and problem statement
- New administrator capability for allowed languages
- Demo - selecting allowed languages
- User experience with filtered language list
- Partner contribution and delivery
Overview
The video covers a small addition to Business Central 2025 wave 1 that addresses confusion caused by the full list of product languages. Administrators can open an allowed languages setting and choose which languages users may select.
The demo shows the administrator selecting languages, then the user’s My Settings page, where only the allowed languages appear. The presenter says a community member built the capability and that it ships with 2025 wave 1 through a pull request.
Key points
- Administrators can specify allowed languages, which limits the product languages users can choose from.
- Users see only the allowed languages when they open My Settings.
- A notification tells the user that the language list is a filtered view.
- The change reduces confusion from the full list of available languages.
- The capability ships with Business Central 2025 wave 1.
- It was developed by a community member and delivered through a pull request.
- The video demos selecting allowed languages (Danish and English) and the resulting user view.
Features
| Feature | Status | At | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Allowed languages administration | generally available, demoed | 0:20 | “pull request that enables his capability which then now ships with 2025 wave 1” (1:31) |
Quotes
- 0:05 “we’ll show you another Nifty little addition to Business Center 2025 wave 1 developed by one of our community members”
- 0:20 “administrators have the ability to go into allowed languages we can specify Which languages you would like the user to be able to choose”
- 0:50 “if you go into my settings the user will only be able to choose from the languages which are allowed”
- 0:50 “there’s a little uh notification showing here that this is now a filtered view”
- 1:11 “this pull request that enables his capability which then now ships with 2025 wave 1”
Presenters (as heard): Casper.