What's new and planned for Finance and Operations cross-app capabilities
Important
This content is archived and is not being updated. For the latest documentation, see Microsoft Dynamics 365 product documentation. For the latest release plans, see Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform release plans.
This topic lists features that are planned to release from October 2020 through March 2021. Because this topic lists features that may not have released yet, delivery timelines may change and projected functionality may not be released. For more information, go to Microsoft policy.
- For a list of the previous wave's release plans, go to 2020 release wave 1 plan.
- For a list of the next wave's release plans, go to 2021 release wave 1 plan.
In the General availability column, the feature will be delivered within the month listed. The delivery date can be any day within that month. Released features show the full date, including the date of release.
This check mark (
) shows which features have been released for public preview or early access and for public preview, early access, and general availability.
Business events
With 2020 release wave 2, batch business events are being introduced.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Batch notifications | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - |
Mar 17, 2021 |
Cross-app features
Capabilities and features that apply to all Finance and Operations apps.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| New grid control – general availability | Users by admins, makers, or analysts |
Aug 3, 2020 |
Oct 2, 2020 |
| New task recorder capabilities | Users by admins, makers, or analysts |
Aug 3, 2020 |
Oct 2, 2020 |
| Saved views – general availability | Users by admins, makers, or analysts |
Aug 3, 2020 |
Oct 2, 2020 |
| Upgrade three jQuery components libraries | Users by admins, makers, or analysts |
Aug 3, 2020 |
Oct 2, 2020 |
| Lifecycle Services support experience | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - |
Oct 5, 2020 |
| Embedded drill-through links supported in application reports | Users by admins, makers, or analysts |
Oct 9, 2020 |
Oct 16, 2020 |
| Enable a drop-down list on multiline controls | Users by admins, makers, or analysts |
Sep 4, 2020 |
Nov 6, 2020 |
| Regression Suite Automation Tool 2.0 | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | - |
Dec 31, 2020 |
| New HTML editor control | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | - |
Jan 1, 2021 |
| Multiple attachments for an email in ER destinations | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - |
Jan 22, 2021 |
| Document (attachment) history | Users by admins, makers, or analysts |
Nov 20, 2020 |
Feb 5, 2021 |
| Email throttling | Users by admins, makers, or analysts |
Nov 20, 2020 |
Feb 5, 2021 |
| Grouping with subtotals in grids – general availability | Users by admins, makers, or analysts |
Nov 20, 2020 |
Feb 5, 2021 |
| Conditional Access with Azure Active Directory | Users by admins, makers, or analysts |
Jan 28, 2021 |
Feb 5, 2021 |
| Entity map tagging in dual-write | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - |
Mar 31, 2021 |
| Support in dual-write to use a user-specified team as the owner for Dataverse global tables | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - |
Mar 31, 2021 |
| User session management | Users by admins, makers, or analysts |
Feb 1, 2021 |
To be announced |
Data and process integration
Finance and Operations app data and processes are available in Azure Data Lake Storage, Microsoft Dataverse, and Power Automate.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finance and Operations data in Azure Data Lake available in selected Azure regions | Users by admins, makers, or analysts |
Mar 31, 2021 |
- |
| Finance and Operations data in Microsoft Dataverse – phase 3 | Users by admins, makers, or analysts |
Oct 30, 2020 |
Mar 31, 2021 |
Description of Enabled for column values:
Users, automatically: These features include changes to the user experience and are enabled automatically.
Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically: These features are meant to be used by administrators, makers, marketers, or business analysts and are enabled automatically.
Users by admins, makers, or analysts: These features must be enabled or configured by the administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their users.
For a list of the countries or regions where Dynamics 365 business applications are available, go to the International availability guide. For more information about geographic areas and datacenters (regions), go to the Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform availability page.