What's New: Enhancements to Copilot Summaries (2025 release wave 2)
Copilot summaries in Business Central (2025 release wave 2): summary generation is 50% faster, summaries take list filters into account, they can be copied and shared, 20 more languages are supported besides English, and developers can turn summarization on or off per page in AL. The video says these are already available for all Business Central online countries, regions and environment types, and work on all card and document pages.
- Introduction to Copilot Summaries
- Customer Card Summary Demo and 50% Faster Generation
- New Fields and Interactive Summary Features
- Show More Insights and Conversation with Copilot
- Copy and Share Summary Capability
- Chart of Accounts Example and Filter Awareness
- Multi-Language Support and Custom Pages
- Developer Configuration and Availability
Overview
The video covers enhancements to “Summarize with Copilot”, which summarizes a record in Business Central. It demos the customer card and the chart of accounts to show faster generation, new fields that feed richer insights, and interactive summaries.
It also covers showing more insights and continuing the conversation with Copilot, copying and sharing a summary, filter awareness, and multi-language support. Last, it explains the new AL option for developers to configure summarization on a page, and says the feature is available in all Business Central online countries and regions.
Key points
- Summary generation is 50% faster than in the previous release.
- Popular pages such as the customer card have new fields that give Copilot more data for richer insights.
- Summaries are interactive: clicking a field or interaction highlights it and opens the related page the insight came from.
- Show more generates additional insights beyond the initial summary, and the user can continue the conversation with Copilot.
- Summaries can be copied (from the FactBox option or with Ctrl+C) and shared with co-workers through Teams or other media in a formatted layout.
- Summaries take into account filters carried from the list to the card, as shown with the chart of accounts.
- Summarize with Copilot now supports 20 more languages beyond English.
Features
| Feature | Status | At |
|---|---|---|
| 50% Faster Summary Generation | status not stated, demoed | 1:16 |
| Interactive Summary with Field Highlighting | status not stated, demoed | 1:57 |
| Show More Insights | status not stated, demoed | 2:15 |
| Copy and Share Summary | status not stated, demoed | 2:57 |
| Filter Awareness in Summaries | status not stated, demoed | 3:24 |
| Multi-Language Support for Summaries | status not stated, demoed | 4:01 |
| Developer Configuration for Summarization | status not stated | 4:31 |
| Enhanced Fields for Richer Insights | status not stated, demoed | 1:43 |
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.
Quotes
- 0:05 “Copilot is your AI assistant for work and it has an ability now to summarize any record on business central”
- 1:16 “one of the new enhancements that we have done is that the summary generation process is 50% faster”
- 4:01 “only English was supported until this release and now we support 20 more languages.”
- 4:31 “from this release onwards, we are also introducing and developer way for configuring whether they want the summarization uh on a certain page uh”
- 4:56 “it is already available for all business central online countries and regions. And it’s also available for all type of environments in all languages”
- 5:12 “Now it’s with support of 20 languages and it works with all all card and document pages.”
Presenters (as heard): Monica Aja.