2025-12-12 Release
Release Highlights
This release introduces significant enhancements to dimensional analytics, improved filtering and time intelligence, and multiple app-specific improvements across Sales, Purchasing, Inventory, Finance, Projects, and Service. Several legacy pages and parameter tables have been retired and replaced with improved Cube-based and unified parameter models.
Breaking Changes
- Removed "By Item Attribute" pages from all apps → Replaced by Cube-based reports. All 16 Item Attribute fields are now available in standard Cube reports.
- Removed "By Dimension Cube" pages from all apps → Fully replaced by Cube-based reports.
- Finance Insights – Removed tables: Balance Sheet Field Parameter, Balance Sheet Field Parameter 2, Balance Sheet Measure Parameter → Replaced by G/L Field Parameter, G/L Measure Parameter
- Service Insights – Removed Service Order Field Parameter table → Replaced by Service Field Parameter.
Enhancements
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Advanced Analysis by Business Central Dimensions: Dimensional analytics have been significantly expanded with advanced support for both transaction and default dimensions. Key improvements include:
- Support for dimension hierarchies with structured roll-ups; Total dimensions for custom groupings;
- Extended dimension fields for deeper insights
- Consistent historical reporting
- Optimized performance for Power BI models
Learn more here.
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Improved Date Intelligence: New columns have been added to the Date table to simplify common reporting scenarios:
- Up to End of Last Month: Shows data up to the last fully completed month.
- Last 12 Months: Rolling 12-month period up to today.
- Last 12M (Month End): Last 12 full months, ending at the most recent month-end.
- Last 12M (Accounting Period End): Last 12 months ending at the latest closed accounting period.
App Updates
Sales Insights
- Added new measures: PY, YOY, YOY % for Sales (LCY) Posted & Outstanding; Quantity Budget Variance Posted & Outstd.
- Added 4 additional text extension fields to the Customer table. Learn more here.
Purchasing Insights
- Added Dimension 1 Extension fields to support Multi-Entity Management (MEM)
- Added Pay-to Vendor and Buy-from Vendor Row-Level Security (RLS) roles. Learn more here. Added option to assign Vendor Permissions as a filter, enabling exclusions using not equal logic. Example: <>V0001&<>V0002&<>V0003
Inventory Insights
- Improved Item Availability logic using the Requisition Line table → Supports Planning Worksheet and Requisition Worksheet with Action Message = New
- Added Lot No. Information table with extension support: Up to 8 text fields, 2 decimal fields, 2 date fields
- Added Tariff No. field to the Item table
- Added 4 additional text extension fields to the Item table
- Added Purch. Doc. (Item Filter) → Filter items based on their presence in purchase documents. Example: Filter by Purchase Order No. to show only items on that order
- Inventory Activity Aging: New option to age inventory based on Sales & Consumption
Finance Insights
- Improved Closing Entry filtering in G/L Entries. Added "Close Income Stmt. Source Code" field in Insights Setup. Enables marking Closing Entries based on Source Code
- Added new Budget measures: Budget (LCY) Full FY; Budget (LCY) Remaining FY; Actuals & Budget (LCY); Actuals & Budget (LCY) Full FY
- Added Net Change (ACY) support for Additional Reporting Currency to Financial Reporting
Accounts Payable Insights
- Added Pay-to Vendor Row-Level Security (RLS) role
Projects Insights
- Added dimensions from Job Tasks to Job Planning Lines → Enables full dimensional analysis of project planning data
Service Insights
- Optimized APIs and semantic model to significantly improve data refresh performance
- Added Salesperson dimension for analyzing Service Management data by Salesperson