What's New: Autofill Contact Details with Copilot (2025 release wave 2)
Copilot autofill in Business Central (2025 release wave 2, in preview) can search the web with Microsoft Bing to fill contact details such as addresses, phone numbers, email and homepage when creating records like vendors. The video demos info tips, the Keep All button and enabling Bing search.
- Introduction to Copilot Autofill
- Demo - Creating a Vendor and Searching for Details
- Verification and Transparency with Info Tips
- Additional Autofill Capabilities Beyond Web Search
- Enabling Bing Search and Availability
- Tips and Best Practices for Using Autofill
- Conclusion and Call to Action
Overview
The video shows Copilot autofill extended to search the web on the user’s behalf. In the demo, a vendor is created, Copilot searches Microsoft Bing for the company name, and it proposes contact details. Users can open info tips to see how each suggestion was derived, including which web search result was used and a link to the grounding source.
It also covers accepting all suggestions with Keep All, after which Business Central validates each field. Autofill can also suggest values from internal Business Central data, such as recently used or most common responsibility centers. An administrator enables Bing search on the Copilot and agent capabilities page. The features are in preview, and language quality has been assessed only for English.
Key points
- Web search autofill in Copilot uses Microsoft Bing to fill address, phone, email and homepage fields; the autofill feature is in public preview.
- Info tips show how Copilot derived each suggestion, including the web search result used, with a link to the grounding data source.
- Keep All accepts all suggestions in one click; Business Central then validates each field.
- Administrators enable Bing search on the Copilot and agent capabilities page.
- Autofill can also suggest internal values, such as recently used or most common responsibility centers, without searching the web.
- Shortcuts: Alt+I invokes autofill for a field group and Alt+Up toggles between info tips.
- Autofill is available in all Business Central countries, languages and environment types; language quality has been assessed only for English, with more languages planned later in the wave.
Features
| Feature | Status | At | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Copilot Autofill with Web Search for Contact Details | preview, demoed | 0:31 | “go try out the public preview view of C-Pilot’s autofill feature” (3:42) |
| Info Tips for Transparency | preview, demoed | 1:53 | “go try out the public preview view of C-Pilot’s autofill feature” (3:42) |
| Keep All Button | preview, demoed | 2:36 | “go try out the public preview view of C-Pilot’s autofill feature” (3:42) |
| Copilot Autofill Beyond Web Search | preview | 3:02 | “go try out the public preview view of C-Pilot’s autofill feature” (3:42) |
| Enable Bing Search in Copilot and Agent Capabilities | status not stated, demoed | 3:26 | |
| Autofill Keyboard Shortcuts | preview | 4:22 | “go try out the public preview view of C-Pilot’s autofill feature” (3:42) |
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.
- page “Copilot and agent capabilities page” at 3:15
Not found in BC28-30: page “Copilot and agent capabilities page”.
Quotes
- 0:31 “And now in this wave, it also searches the web on your behalf to help you fill out contact details such as addresses or”
- 1:26 “Copilot is now searching the web on my behalf searching for adventure works and it’s using Microsoft Bing search to find that information”
- 1:53 “I can use the info tip to see that Copilot used a web search and the city is specified in the retail store address”
- 2:48 “The moment you do that, Business Center will validate each of those fields to maintain the integrity of your data.”
- 3:42 “go try out the public preview view of C-Pilot’s autofill feature uh on your favorite pages”
- 3:56 “autofill is available in all Business Central countries in all languages and on all types of environments”
- 3:56 “we’ve assessed the quality of language in English and we’re looking forward to adding support for many more languages later on in this wave”
Disclaimers in the video
- 3:42 preview: go try out the public preview view of C-Pilot’s autofill feature
- 3:56 coming-later: we’re looking forward to adding support for many more languages later on in this wave
Presenters (as heard): Mike.