What's New in Sustainability: Sustainability Journals Approval (2025 release wave 2)
Sustainability journal approvals in Business Central (2025 release wave 2): a workflow template lets companies route sustainability journal batches through the standard approval workflow, for CSRD-type reporting control. Approval works on the whole batch only, not per line.
- Introduction and motivation for sustainability journal approvals
- Business value and compliance requirements
- Standard approval workflow implementation
- Setup and configuration overview
- Live demonstration of approval workflow
- Summary and next steps
- Resources and closing remarks
Overview
The video covers why larger companies that must report under CSRD or similar regulations want an approval step on sustainability journals, to improve compliance and control. It describes a new workflow template for sustainability journal batch approval that reuses the existing Business Central approval workflow functionality, with no custom development.
It then goes through the setup and shows a live demonstration. Users send or cancel an approval request from the sustainability journal. The approval runs like any other Business Central approval workflow.
Key points
- Approval is available for a whole sustainability journal batch only, not per individual line.
- A new workflow template for sustainability journal batch approval is provided and uses the standard Business Central approval workflow functionality.
- Setup needs minimal additional configuration; the pages mentioned are Workflows and Approval user setup.
- From the Sustainability journal page, users can send or cancel an approval request for a batch.
- Requests are handled on the Approvals page, the same as other approval workflows in Business Central.
- The motivation given is compliance and control for companies that report under CSRD or similar regulations.
Features
Every feature below: status not stated, demoed.
| Feature | At |
|---|---|
| Sustainability journal approvals | 0:19 |
| Sustainability journal batch approval workflow template | 1:03 |
| Approval request control for sustainability journal | 1:25 |
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 6219 “Sustainability Journal” at 2:36
- page 832 “Approvals” at 2:54
- page 1500 “Workflows” at 2:04
- page 663 “Approval User Setup” at 2:17
Quotes
- 0:31 “for bigger companies who need to report they would like to have this approval process to improve compliance and control”
- 1:25 “you can run from sustainability journal approval only for one batch. So not per line, only for whole batch”
- 1:35 “user can choose to send approval request or to cancel approval request”
Presenters (as heard): Alexander, Jacob Bang.