What's New: Autofill Fields with Copilot (2025 release wave 1)
Copilot autofill in Business Central (2025 release wave 1) suggests values for blank fields on card and document pages, demoed on customer and fixed asset records. Suggestions are not saved until the user keeps them, and field validation overrides them. Web search is announced for later in the wave, not in the initial update 26 release.
- Introduction to Copilot autofill feature
- Creating a customer record with autofill suggestions
- Understanding suggestion mechanisms and user control
- Web search for public information
- Business Central validation and field logic overrides
- Creating a fixed asset with keyboard shortcuts
- AI-powered suggestions and reminder workflow
- Feature availability and extensibility
- Call to action and closing
Overview
The video shows how Copilot suggests values for blank fields on cards and document pages. It creates a customer record and a fixed asset, and shows suggestions from most recently or most frequently used values, lookup selection based on other fields, and AI model knowledge, such as a five-year depreciation life for inkjet printers.
It also covers user control and extensibility. Suggestions are visually distinct and are not saved automatically. Users can see why a suggestion was made, use Alt+I or quick entry, and get a reminder when leaving a page with unreviewed suggestions. Custom fields and pages work without extra extensibility code, and developers can read the documentation to improve the output.
Key points
- Copilot suggests values for blank fields on card and document pages. Suggestions appear visually distinct inside fast tabs.
- Suggestions are not saved automatically. The user chooses to keep them, and leaving a page with unreviewed suggestions triggers a reminder.
- Business Central field validation and AL-based logic override Copilot suggestions.
- Suggestions come from most recently or most frequently used values, from lookup choices based on other fields (for example the responsibility center closest to the customer’s country), or from the AI model’s own knowledge.
- Alt+I asks Copilot to fill a field and related fields in a fast tab. Enter accepts a suggestion and moves on in quick entry.
- An info icon explains why Copilot made a suggestion.
- Web search (Bing) for public details such as addresses, phone numbers and emails is announced for later in the wave, not in the initial update 26 release.
Features
| Feature | Status | At | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Copilot autofill for card and document pages | status not stated, demoed | 0:05 | |
| Most recently used and most frequently used selection | status not stated, demoed | 2:09 | |
| Intelligent lookup selection from predefined choices | status not stated, demoed | 2:35 | |
| Web search for public information | announced, demoed | 3:19 | “but do note that the ability to search the web will be available later during the wave” (8:23) |
| Keyboard shortcut for autofill (Alt+I) | status not stated, demoed | 5:19 | |
| Quick entry integration with Copilot | status not stated, demoed | 5:56 | |
| Copilot suggestion explanation tooltips | status not stated, demoed | 1:21 | |
| AI foundational model suggestions | status not stated, demoed | 6:48 | |
| Unsaved suggestion reminder | status not stated, demoed | 7:40 | |
| Copilot support for custom fields and pages | status not stated | 8:38 |
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.
Quotes
- 0:05 “Copilot is your AI companion for work and it can now suggest values for blank fields in all of your cards and document pages”
- 1:48 “when Copilot provides suggestions, those suggestions are not automatically saved to Business Central, Copilot gives me those suggestions. So I can choose what to”
- 4:26 “it may trigger setting values for other fields where copilot already has a suggestion and in that”
- 8:23 “if you upgrade to update 26 of Business Central, you get to try out this feature yourselves. Um, and you can do that on”
- 8:23 “but do note that the ability to search the web will be available later during the wave”
- 8:23 “you get to try out this feature yourselves. Um, and you can do that on any environment and on any language as well”
- 8:38 “Copilot is actually ready to work also with your custom fields and your custom pages as well. Um and if you’re a developer watching”
Disclaimers in the video
- 8:23 subject-to-change: the ability to search the web will be available later during the wave
Presenters (as heard): Mike.