What's New: Boost Your Productivity with Business Central (2024 release wave 1)
Business Central 2024 release wave 1 user experience changes: the modern action bar becomes mandatory, a new date picker, actions on platform-generated errors, error sharing via Teams and email, help and support page improvements, and worksheet access on the mobile client.
- Introduction and agenda overview
- Mobile client worksheet access improvements
- Modern action bar made mandatory with enhancements
- New copilot icon and opt-out options in action bar
- New date picker control aligned with Microsoft products
- Actions added to platform-generated errors
- Error sharing via Teams and email support
- Help and support improvements and keyboard shortcuts
- Live demo of UX improvements
- Conclusion and additional resources
Overview
This 14-minute video from the Business Central team covers productivity-focused user experience changes in 2024 release wave 1. It walks through the modern action bar becoming mandatory, with a new copilot icon and layout tweaks, and a new date picker aligned with other Microsoft products.
It also covers error handling: legacy platform-generated errors get navigate actions, and users can share error details through Teams or email. Help and support page improvements, updated keyboard shortcut PDFs and mobile worksheet access are included, followed by a live demo. Multiple file uploads, planned for the April release, was postponed to an upcoming minor release.
Key points
- The mobile client now gives access to worksheet pages from version 24, showing header, line, fact box and footer details.
- The modern action bar, introduced three releases earlier, is mandatory in 2024 release wave 1. Users can switch back to the legacy action bar in My Settings, and admins can switch it for users.
- A one-time call out explaining the action bar change is shown to existing users who have teaching tips enabled, in existing production environments and companies. For new users the modern action bar is on by default.
- The 2024 release wave 1 action bar adds a new copilot icon, shorter captions to save space, and a new analysis mode icon. Flexible personalization and the split button were added three releases earlier.
- A new date picker control works like the ones in other Microsoft products such as Word and Excel, making it easier to find dates far in the past or future.
- Platform-generated errors from legacy code get automatic navigate actions with no extra developer effort. The actions help when the user has permissions to fix the error.
- Error details can be shared via Teams or email, and are copied to the clipboard automatically. This helps when a user lacks permissions or needs help from a colleague or admin.
Features
| Feature | Status | At | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Worksheet access on mobile client | status not stated | 0:57 | |
| Modern action bar made mandatory | status not stated, demoed | 1:36 | |
| Modern action bar enhancements | status not stated, demoed | 2:30 | |
| New date picker control | status not stated, demoed | 3:32 | |
| Actions for platform-generated errors | status not stated, demoed | 4:32 | |
| Error sharing via Teams and email | status not stated, demoed | 5:52 | |
| Help and support page improvements | status not stated, demoed | 7:06 | |
| Updated keyboard shortcuts PDFs | status not stated | 7:06 | |
| Multiple file uploads | announced | 8:06 | “that was planned for the April release which got a bit postponed and that is uh the the multiple um file uploads” (8:06) |
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: page “My Settings”, page “Help and support page”.
Quotes
- 1:36 “we are making modern action bar uh that we introduced three releases ago uh mandatory”
- 4:13 “it is aligned with uh the dat picker controls used in other microsoft products”
- 4:32 “2024 release Wave 1 uh also introduces um adds action to sort of a platform generated uh to platform generated errors”
- 6:12 “we are providing an easy way to uh share details about the error messages be through teams or uh via email”
- 8:06 “there was also one feature uh that was planned for the April release which got a bit postponed and that is uh the the”
- 8:39 “this is to show you modern action bar callout that some users will receive when they upgrade to 20124 release Wave 1”
- 8:39 “the call out will be shown just once only if existing users have teaching tips enabled only an existing production environment perment”
Disclaimers in the video
- 8:06 coming-later: multiple um file uploads that is actually coming in one of the upcoming uh minor releases
Presenters (as heard): Ivan Ktic.