Introduction: In this blog, I will be attempting to provide information about the new Modern Client features of Business Central Wave 2. Pre-requisites: Microsoft Dynamics Business Central Wave 2. Demonstration: Filter option fields by multiple values In the below picture, the user wants to apply a filter on an option field “Contact Type” on Customers, but the user can filter the data with either of the two options in Business Central. But with the new Business Central Wave 2 update, users can now filter option fields with multiple values as you can see below. 2. Multitasking across Multiple Pages: It is possible that users want to toggle between multiple pages, this feature was not available before, but it is possible in new Business Central Wave 2 update. Step 1: On the page, find the button highlighted below and click on the button that describes, “Open the page in a new window”. Step 2:  After Step 1 the page will open a new window as shown below. 3. Enter data with Speed and Agility Business Central wave 2 comes with more efficiency and agility,  data is entered with speed and agility, all the processing of fields in a record is done when the user adds a new record. 4. Longer timeout period for the server connection. In earlier versions of Business Central online, the session timeout period was set to 20 minutes. Microsoft has increased this value to two hours so that users are not asked to sign in to Business Central again and again. Note: This feature is only applicable to Business Central Online. For Business Central On-Premises, you can change the timeout in the Client Services tab in Business Central Server Administration. Hope this helps!

1. Saving and personalizing list views. Suppose we want to switch between pages and we want to add filters, so to achieve this we have to add filters every time we come back to that page, this feature was not available in the previous version of Business Central but now it has been added by the developers. We can save a combination of filters as our view and access it again and again.   2. Personalize actions and navigation on your Home page With the Business Central Wave 2 Release users can easily add their desired pages to their Role centers, making these pages easily accessible to the user. 3. Design for Extensibility. Users can adjust actions and action groups on their Role Center. Adjust the navigation menu items and grouping on a Role Center. Customize user profiles by designing page changes that will apply only to a specific profile in your extension.

1. Lock-free number series (Allow gaps in Number Series). Users can choose to mark number series to allow gaps in the series. These number series will be non-blocking, which will boost performance. Add notes and links to data Users can quickly add a note to the data they are currently viewing on the Business Central, these notes can be used if a user needs to add some note to the specific page. 3. Customize a user profile without writing code. (New fields have been added, Caption, Description, Use as Default Profile, Promoted). Users need not have to write code to change a user profile, instead, they can make changes to a user profile from Profile only.

1.Power-full filtering of Reports When running reports on Business Central, Users see a request page where they can add filters, this addition of filters was achieved by customization and coding. With the new Business Central Wave 2 Release users do not have to worry about customizing from the back end. Business Central Wave 2 comes up with hassle-free filtering of reports which is achieved before the report is run. Thus making it more efficient to use. The snapshot shown below is an example of previous report filters. This is how the business central wave has added filters. You just have to click the filters button and you can have multiple combinations of simple and complex filters. 2. Resize columns with fewer clicks. Columns play a major role in Business Central because the data to be displayed is dependent on how much visible that particular column is, In the earlier version of business central it was not possible to increase the width of a column to be displayed. With the new Business Central Wave 2 release, the developers have made it convenient for the users to increase the size of columns just with a single click and mouse drag.   Below is the snapshot of the previous Business Central. This picture shows how the column “Contact” has been increased. Hope this helps!

Introduction: In this blog, I have introduced how to fetch a custom table from Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central into Microsoft PowerApps using Common Data Service(CDS) and OData. The table that was created in Business Central was fetched into a custom entity(MatchingLists) in CDS that allows me to create a local database in PowerApps for storing the entity data and OData that helps to fetch and integrate the data. Pre-requisites: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Microsoft PowerApps Steps: 1. Create a custom entity within Common Data Service(CDS) whose data you want to retrieve from Business Central. 2. Add the fields with their required data types. 3. Get Data from Business Central using OData Integration. 4. Go to web services in Business Central, add the custom page in the web services and use its OData V4 URL.  5.Enter the OData URL and the Organization credentials. 6. You will be shown the list of tables in each and every company. 7. Go to the table whose data you want to get into PowerApps, and select that table. 8. Next is to select the entity to be mapped with this table and field by field mapping of the same. 9. Refresh can be set manual or automatically, if automatic then select the time. 10. Create a list structure to dsiplay the table.