What's New: User Experience Enhancements (2025 release wave 2)
Business Central 2025 release wave 2 user experience changes: factbox resizing, Advanced Tellme semantic search (preview), extra instructions for the sales order agent, week numbers in date pickers, and a data masking property for sensitive fields (preview).
- Introduction to UX improvements
- Screen state and workspace handling
- Advanced Tellme search feature
- Copilot and agent enhancements
- Additional UI improvements
- Conclusion and next steps
Overview
A five-minute What’s New video covering user interface changes in Business Central 2025 release wave 2. It demonstrates how the page adjusts when the factbox opens and closes, and how side panes can be resized by hand.
It also shows Advanced Tellme, which uses semantic search to find pages and reports, and new options for giving the sales order agent extra instructions. Two smaller items follow: week numbers in date pickers, and a property that hides sensitive field values until the user reveals them. Advanced Tellme and data masking are both in preview and need to be enabled in feature management.
Key points
- The UI now adjusts automatically when the factbox is opened or closed, as the default behavior. Users can also resize the factbox, copilot pane, help pane and page scripting pane manually.
- Advanced Tellme is in preview and must be enabled in feature management. It uses semantic search to match the meaning of the search term to pages and reports.
- Agents such as the sales order agent accept additional instructions, either by choosing a predefined option or by entering free text.
- Date pickers can show week numbers on the side. Shift+Home toggles the view, and the display follows regional settings.
- A new data masking property hides sensitive values, for example a company bank account number, until the user reveals them. AL developers apply it to fields that hold sensitive data.
- Data masking is in preview and must be enabled in feature management. It is expected to appear in more areas of Business Central in coming releases.
Features
| Feature | Status | At | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Factbox resize behavior | status not stated, demoed | 0:45 | |
| Advanced Tellme | preview, demoed | 1:07 | “This feature is in preview. So you need to enable that in feature management.” (1:28) |
| Agent assistant instructions | status not stated, demoed | 2:37 | |
| Week numbers in date picker | status not stated, demoed | 3:39 | |
| Data masking for sensitive fields | preview, demoed | 3:59 | “This feature is also in preview. So you have to enable that in feature management.” (4:29) |
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 “Items” at 1:38
Not found in BC28-30: page “Items”.
Quotes
- 0:45 “You will notice in business central the user interface changes when you open and close the factbox. That’s right now becomes a default behavior.”
- 1:28 “This feature is in preview. So you need to enable that in feature management.”
- 2:07 “This uses semantic search to determine which pages or reports are closer to the search term that you entered in Teli.”
- 3:03 “In here we have now the ability to give additional instructions to the agent either by selecting a predefined option or providing uh text”
- 3:39 “We added an option to show weak numbers in date picker. You will see that in every date picker right now when you press”
- 4:14 “The bank account number for your company is currently hidden and I can reveal the data. If I press this little button here”
- 4:29 “This feature is also in preview. So you have to enable that in feature management.”
Disclaimers in the video
- 1:28 preview: This feature is in preview. So you need to enable that in feature management.
- 4:14 coming-later: You will see this feature showing up in different areas of Business Central in the coming uh releases.
- 4:29 preview: This feature is also in preview. So you have to enable that in feature management.
Presenters (as heard): Unknown presenter.