Dynamics 365 has come out with a comprehensive plan for the release of business central 2020 wave 2. In this article I will focus on updates to page styling, more responsive FactBoxes, and an upgraded dialog bar for a seamless service and optimized productivity.
Page styling updates
You can’t have any new features brought in without a fresh new style that enhances the experience altogether. That’s what Microsoft did when they introduced Wave 2, with beautiful and sleek changes to task dialogs, embedded lists, and stylistic appearances. Task dialogs will now be more focused on completing current tasks, with a display in specific commands and an easier way to exit the dialog. They can also now be shown in the middle of the screen, actions will be represented below the page caption, and consistent results when trying to maximize any task dialog either vertically or horizontally will be applied.
Other stylistic changes include an improved space for the embedded lists, showing off how lists parts will stretch to fill the available space when inside a group, or how pages with multiple list parts will no longer waste space by being split into nested groups. Not to mention, minor details like font adjustments and font sizing have been made, with the Bahnschrift font being removed.
A more responsive FactBox
FactBoxes have been super important in some of what Microsoft offers, which is why their upgrade in the business central 2020 wave 2 has been so important. Not only are they easier to view, but their interaction has also overall been optimized for a number of features. This allows FactBox to run smoother on the page, now being loaded to give priority to show the main content of that page.
Content for the hosted page will now be displayed first, which will then be followed by any FactBoxes in order on how they are shown on the page. FactBoxes can also continue to run within the same session, but can also be changed by a developer so that the FactBox is explicitly implemented as a page background task. Last but not least, FactBoxes can be collapsed and won’t run on the opening page unless the FactBox pane is expanded.
An improved navigation experience terminology
One of the key updates to modern clients in the business central application provides and clear and concise list of features that help with training, onboarding, and day-to-day work. The updated features in the navigation experience include minor but impactful changes likes the non-promoted group being renamed to ‘unrelated’ and the group called report has now been changed to ‘reports’. The action that was previously shown as Navigate is now changed to ‘find entries’ and has now gained a keyboard shortcut to find it faster.
Although you may think this may have been a lot to read, this was just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the latest news surrounding the Business Central 2020 Wave 2.
