What's New: Get Notified of Issues with Job Queues (2024 release wave 2)
Job queue notifications in Business Central 2024 release wave 2: an assisted setup for recipients, methods and failure thresholds, an in-product notification strip and role center tiles, and external notifications through business events and Power Automate. The external part is in preview.
- Introduction to Job Queue Notifications
- Setting Up Job Queue Notifications
- Configuring Notification Recipients
- Choosing Notification Methods
- Setting Notification Frequency and Thresholds
- In-Product Notifications Experience
- Role Center Task Tiles and Visual Indicators
- Admin vs User Notification Views
- External Notifications with Business Events and Power Automate
- Demonstration and New APIs
Overview
The video covers how Business Central can notify users when critical background processes such as job queues stop or fail. Administrators use an assisted setup guide with three steps: choose recipients, choose notification methods (in-product or external), and set frequency thresholds.
Users see a notification strip in their role center and three extra job queue tiles for failed, in-progress and pending tasks. Admins can see other users’ job queue tasks. External notifications use the job queue task failed business event with a Power Automate template, and the video also covers new job queue APIs. The external part is in preview because business events are still in preview.
Key points
- The assisted setup guide has three steps: select notification recipients, choose notification methods (in-product or external), and set frequency thresholds.
- Thresholds reduce notification fatigue for transient issues. For example, you can get notified only after a job fails three to five times instead of on every failure.
- The in-product notification strip in the role center lets users show details, inspect failed tasks, restart jobs manually, and disable notifications in My Settings.
- Three role center tiles show tasks failed, in progress, and pending or waiting. Color-coded indicators follow the admin’s failed-task thresholds.
- Designated job queue notification administrators see their own job queue tasks and those of other users.
- External notifications use the job queue task failed business event and a Power Automate template that can email through Outlook. This part is in preview because business events are in preview.
- New APIs for job queue entries (with a restart bound action) and job queue log entries can be used from Power Automate flows.
Features
| Feature | Status | At | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Job Queue Notifications | status not stated, demoed | 0:07 | |
| Job Queue Notification Assisted Setup Guide | status not stated, demoed | 1:07 | |
| In-Product Notification Strip | status not stated, demoed | 5:30 | |
| Job Queue Task Tiles in Role Center | status not stated, demoed | 6:51 | |
| Job Queue Notification Administrator Role | status not stated, demoed | 8:52 | |
| External Notifications with Business Events | preview, demoed | 10:47 | “this part of the feature is uh currently in preview mainly because the business events are uh still in preview” (3:28) |
| Job Queue Entry API | status not stated | 14:41 | |
| Job Queue Log Entries API | status not stated | 14:41 | |
| Job Queue Task Failed Business Event | status not stated, demoed | 14:41 | |
| Power Automate Template for Job Queue Notifications | status not stated, demoed | 11:56 | |
| Notification Frequency Thresholds | status not stated, demoed | 3:49 |
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.
- other “Job Queue Entries” at 11:27
- other “Job Queue Entry” at 14:41
- other “Job Queue Log Entries” at 15:01
Quotes
- 0:07 “with 2024 release Wave 2 business Central can notify uh users in product or help admin help administrators orchestrate notifications when critical business processes”
- 0:47 “being notified about such situations can help you react quickly and resolve the issues”
- 3:28 “this part of the feature is uh currently in preview mainly because the business events are uh still in preview and we are taking”
- 4:29 “if this thing actually fails you know three to five times then go ahead and uh and notify me”
- 8:52 “those users uh see uh their own uh job queue tasks so the job cues that they have run but they can also see”
- 14:41 “we’ve added a couple of job Q apis to support us with that we have an we now have an API for job queue”
Disclaimers in the video
- 3:28 preview: this part of the feature is uh currently in preview mainly because the business events are uh still in preview
Presenters (as heard): Evan Colaege.