A Shot of Business Central and A Beer - Episode 3

In today’s podcast we’ve got some breaking news regarding the October 2019 release of Business Central that we want to talk about and we’ll be reviewing Leinenkugel beer.  Also, our listenership is growing and as you know we’re working hard to continually improve this podcast. This week we’re going to introduce a contents section in the beginning of each podcast. In the contents section we’ll tell you the name and exact time that each section starts. This way you save time by only listen to what you want to listen to.

Contents Section

• Beer Review: 1 minute 28 seconds
• A Shot of Business Central: 17 minutes 22 seconds
• Business Central Features: 28 minutes 26 seconds
• Business Central Feature Spotlight: 36 minutes 19 seconds
• Business Central Featured App: 43 minutes 25 seconds

 

Segment 1 – Beer

Overview - Leinenkugel’s Beer

 Stump Ken question from Episode 1: 

• If a customer database gets corrupted due to back processing, etc. can they request a backup from Microsoft? Yes, under exceptional cases, Microsoft has the ability to revert back to a previous backup/copy of a client’s BC database.  Any data since that point of last backup would be lost.  Nightly?  Intra-day backup available perhaps. New feature in the Fall 2019 release, customer can request a backup copy of their database.

 

Segment 2 – A Shot of Business Central with Ken Sebahar

What’s New in Business Central October 2019 Overview

Segment 3 – Business Central Features:
Favorite new features of the upcoming 2019 Release Wave 2

Michael

• Add links to your navigation menu - Bookmark a link to any page in Business Central, and add the link to the navigation menu of your Home page.
• Ability to download a database backup file - In the Business Central Administration Center, tenant administrators can create and download a database backup for each environment for that tenant. Why are they doing this? Certain countries require that businesses have access to their data files. Which is required by their law.
• Switch between companies in your Business Inbox in Outlook - Many businesses use multiple companies in Business Central, and users also want to be able to switch between companies in their Business Inbox in Outlook. With the ability to quickly switch company, users save time and feel more productive. 

Ken

Application:  Carry the line Descriptions to the G/L Entries

• Lifecycle Mgmt - Primary: new option to report production outage in the BC Admin Center. For Partners to use. Answer questions, prioritize situation appropriately
• Alternative:  request backup of database from Microsoft - Import it into a local database. Country requirements that require that businesses be able to have access to the data files.

Modern Client: 

• Customize a profile without writing code - Saving/personalizing List Views. Personalize Role Center/pages for a group of users (previously called Configuration in NAV). Filtering option fields by multiple values. Adjusting the width of columns is easier. Add Notes and Links to data.

Modern Developer Tools:

• Base Application delivered as AL applications (no developer environment) - This is the most newsworthy. Service Fundamentals. New support request for partners for their BC clients

 

Segment 4 – Business Central Feature Spotlight

Open and Edit in Excel

Segment 5 - Featured Business Central Apps: Clever Document Links