Application performance improvements

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Business Central puts a lot of information at your fingertips, but sometimes it can take a second or two to gather and display information when a page is opened. Because speed is of the essence in business, we’ve implemented performance optimizations that make it faster to open some often-used pages.

Feature details

On the Customers list page and the Vendor and Customer cards, we discovered that we could decrease load times by moving the calculations for the statistics shown in FactBoxes to background tasks. The following objects were changed:

  • Customer list

    • Page 9085 Service Hist. Sell-to FactBox uses page background task to update statistics.
    • Page 9086 Service Hist. Bill-to FactBox uses page background task to update statistics.

  • Vendor card

    • Page 9094 Vendor Statistics FactBox uses page background task to update statistics.

  • Customer card

    • Page 9085 Service Hist. Sell-to FactBox uses page background task to update statistics.
    • Page 9086 Service Hist. Bill-to FactBox uses page background task to update statistics.

On the Customer Card page, we also discovered that it is faster to calculate the values in a few fields asynchronously. This includes these fields: Average Late Payments (Days), Money Owed - Expected, Average Collection Period (Days), and Money Owed - Total. Additionally, the Special Prices & Discounts FastTab shows only the first 50 prices and discounts. To view all prices and discounts, choose Refresh Data.

Note

If you want to include the Aged Acc. Receivable chart on the Customer Card page, you might need to use personalization to add it.

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