You can now enter up to 100 characters in all Description and Name fields in Business Central. In previous versions, the character limit was 50. This change applies to the following items:

• The Name fields andon the main data records, such as customer, supplier, article, contact and resource records. Description on the main data records, such as customer, supplier, article, contact and resource records.
• Name and Description fields on documents such as sales and supplier orders, invoices and quotes.
• The Description field for logs, such as general log and article log.
• The Description field on general ledger entries, such as customer, supplier and item general ledger entries.

In addition, you can enter up to 50 characters in the Unit of measurement description field. In previous versions, the character limit was
10.

You can now select several items at a time from the list of items to be added to the sales or purchasing documents. From any sales or purchasing document, select the action in the Select items line.

TIP: If you tick the Default item quantity box on the Sales settings page, the Quantity on sales lines field will be pre-filled for all selected items when they are added to the sales document.

When a customer, supplier or contact record is mistakenly created as a duplicate, you can now merge it into a single record, provided the Merge Duplicates permission is set.

When analysing accounting entries, it is useful to also see the description of the item, as well as the customer and supplier names. The Description and Name fields can now be added to General Ledger entries, such as the Item Accounting Entries, Customer Accounting Entries or Supplier Accounting Entries pages, by activating :

• the Copy Item Desc. to Entries checkbox on the Stock Parameters page for Items
• the Copy Customer Name to Entries checkbox on the Sales Parameters for Customers page
• the Copy supplier name to entries checkbox on the Purchasing parameters page for Suppliers

If you entered the wrong description during validation or just need to change a description on a previous accounting entry, you can now edit the Description field on the Accounting Entries page to overwrite the description from the original validation. On the Change Log Entries page, you can view a log of changes made to the Description field.

The Document Attachments feature allows you to attach any type of file to a sales or purchasing document in Business Central. This is useful, for example, when settling supplier payments so that you can quickly see the original invoice that the supplier has sent you.

Attachments to sales and purchasing documents can now be viewed on the Customer Postings and Supplier Postings pages, and can be viewed on the Open Postings pages when you apply payments to accounting entries.

In the UK, US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa versions, where payment advices are used to notify suppliers of payments made, you can now bulk email payment advices from the payment journal, as well as resend it, after payments have been made, from supplier accounting entries using document sending profiles.

In the UK, US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa versions, where payment advices are used to notify suppliers of payments made, you can now bulk email payment advices from the payment journal, as well as resend it, after payments have been made, from supplier accounting entries using document sending profiles.

Speed up repetitive record entry with the powerful Quick Entry feature for the desktop browser and Windows desktop application.

Desktop users spend a lot of time repeatedly entering information to create sequential records, such as taking telephone orders, scanning receipts or registering new items. Even if users want to display as much detail as possible on a page, only some of these fields need to be systematically filled in when creating the record. Access to these important fields becomes difficult when users are working without a mouse, as they are forced to follow the standard tabbing order of the fields on the page.

The Quick Entry feature is simple and powerful, and provides an alternative path to editable fields on a page. It changes the behaviour of the Enter key to be different from the Tab key, moving the focus to the next Quick Entry field on the page and ignoring secondary fields.

The Quick Entry functionality can be customised using the modern, immersive customisation experience, allowing users to tailor Business Central to the way they or their department enter data.

Developers can define an initial path for Quick Entry fields per page in their application, customise it in extensions and customise it for specific role profiles. In addition, the Quick Entry AL property supports expressions to create dynamic Quick Entry paths to different fields.

Carefully designed to meet the needs of intensive users, the Quick Entry functionality includes improvements over the previous version of Dynamics NAV, such as :

• Move to any Quick Entry field on the page, including moving editable parts such as parts of lists, using a powerful combination of keys: Enter, Shift + Enter and Shift + Ctrl + Enter.
• The development of a reduced organiser (group of fields) if the next Quick Entry field is in this group.
• Move from the last field to the first Quick Entry field on the page.

You can now define date formulas in the Quotation validity calculation field on the Sales parameters page, which will be used to calculate the Quotation valid until field.

TIP: To ensure that quotes with expired validity dates are deleted, you can run the batch process Delete expired quotes. And if you enable quote archiving (Sales settings page), deleted quotes will also be archived so that you can restore them from the archive if customers call back.

Information on payments and the latest payment dates is now available on customer and supplier statistics summaries.

You can now keep a list of SWIFT codes for the banks you work for and use it on the pages where you use your bank accounts. This allows accurate preparation of payments and forces users to select from predefined lists of SWIFT codes rather than entering SWIFT codes in free text.

One size does not fit all. Users can make minor adjustments to the layout of their actions on any list, spreadsheet, form or document page, to optimise exactly how they work. Hide actions that are not relevant to your tasks, role or department. Move actions between groups and hide or reorganise groups. Subtle visual indicators guide users to the possibilities available with the April 2019 version of Business Central.

We are offering our users the opportunity to personalise their workspaces even further with a number of enhancements in April 2019. All customisations in Business Central continue to evolve with the user, regardless of the device or browser they are using.

Quick Entry is a productivity feature for desktop users that speeds up repetitive record entry. When a user presses Enter in a field, the cursor moves on to the next editable quick-entry field, ignoring other automatically filled or occasionally specified fields. On any page, users can customise the behaviour of fields and optimise the way they normally work when entering records. Simply use the customise menu to include or exclude fields from quick entry.

Some fields are only needed occasionally, while others are so important that business users need them to be visible at all times. Fields on document cards and pages can now be customised to be hidden until the Show more option is activated, or to be displayed in the organiser overview when the organiser is collapsed. Combined with the ability to move, hide and show fields, this option offers maximum flexibility to optimise each page for readability. Clicking on a field in the organiser overview will easily expand the organiser and place the cursor on that field.

Shortly after the April 2019 update, users will be able to edit, save and customise list views. Saving your filters to any list is a great productivity feature that reduces the need to re-enter common or complex filters. Business Central gives you even more control over your lists: customise each view independently by adjusting the column layout and sorting to create the perfect presentation of your data. Optimise the filter pane on any list by choosing which views to remove or hide, then drag an important view to the top of the pane for easy access.

Following the Business Central update in April 2019, users will have full control over their links in the navigation bar. By pinning a list in the navigation bar, users can quickly access frequently visited record collections to start their business tasks without having to search for that list every time. Modifications directly in the navigation bar also include moving links to reorganise them, hiding irrelevant links and grouping links.