What's New: Business Central User Experience and Productivity (2026 release wave 1)
Business Central 2026 release wave 1 user experience changes, focused on working with agents: a dedicated agent task pane, created/updated by system columns, a review bar for agent changes, a cancel all agent tasks action, an updated icon and a new feedback button.
- Introduction and Business Central icon updates
- Agent task pane and system columns
- Review bar and demo of agent features
- Cancel all agent tasks action
- Feedback experience improvements
Overview
This 7-minute What’s New video covers user experience changes in Business Central 2026 release wave 1. Most changes concern how users work with agents in the product, including the built-in sales order and payables agents and custom agents built by partners or users.
The video demos the agent task pane, the system columns, the review bar and the payables agent. It also covers the updated Business Central icon, a cancel all agent tasks action, and a feedback button that accepts comments, screenshots and documents. The presenter says more actions are being worked on for the task pane.
Key points
- A new agent task pane is separate from the main experience. It is used to manage activities of the built-in sales order and payables agents and of custom agents.
- Lists get Created by and Updated by system columns. They help identify documents created or modified by agents.
- A review bar appears when a document needs human review or was changed by an agent. It shows what was changed and when.
- A cancel all agent tasks action in the task pane stops all tasks at once. It is useful when an agent is misconfigured or stuck with many tasks.
- The presenter says more task pane actions are being worked on for future updates.
- The Business Central icon is updated to match Microsoft design changes. It shows in the browser, mobile app and Teams app.
- A feedback button in some product areas lets users send detailed comments with screenshots and documents.
Features
| Feature | Status | At |
|---|---|---|
| Updated Business Central icon | status not stated | 0:19 |
| Dedicated agent task pane | generally available (roadmap Manage tasks from all agents in dedicated task pane), demoed | 1:06 |
| Sales order agent | status not stated | 1:18 |
| Payables agent | status not stated, demoed | 1:18 |
| Custom agents capability | status not stated | 1:18 |
| Created/updated by system columns | generally available (roadmap Show avatars for record creators and modifiers in list), demoed | 1:58 |
| Review bar for agent changes | status not stated, demoed | 2:41 |
| Cancel all agent tasks action | status not stated | 4:38 |
| Enhanced feedback experience | status not stated | 5:25 |
A status with a roadmap link comes from the Microsoft 365 roadmap feature this part of the video covers (matched by Haiku; links Opus dropped are not used); other statuses need a status word in the video itself.
Quotes
- 0:07 “we’ll talk about user experience and changes that you see on your screen when working with Business Central”
- 0:51 “we mostly have uh focused on uh working with agents on on experience when you are working with agents in Business Central”
- 1:06 “You will see a new task pane for agents and dedicated task pane that right now is uh separated from the rest of the”
- 1:18 “agents that are built in in the product sales order and payables agents but also those custom agents that can be now built by”
- 5:12 “we are actually also working on some changes related to this task pane and we’ll be adding more actions like that”
- 5:54 “in some uh areas of the product you will see this new uh feedback button where you can provide a more detailed comments and”
Disclaimers in the video
- 5:12 coming-later: we are actually also working on some changes related to this task pane and we’ll be adding more actions
Presenters (as heard): Blazej Kotelko.