What's new and planned for Finance and Operations cross-app capabilities
Important
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This topic lists features that are planned to release from April 2021 through September 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.
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.
Batch framework
The batch framework provides an asynchronous, server-based batch processing environment that can process tasks across multiple instances of Application Object Server (AOS).
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Automatic retry settings for batch jobs | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - |
Apr 16, 2021 |
Cross-app features
Capabilities and features benefiting all Finance and Operations apps.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ensure required unbound controls are filled in | Users by admins, makers, or analysts |
Apr 30, 2021 |
|
| Enhanced troubleshooting experience to manage dual-write initial and catch-up writes | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
May 6, 2021 |
- |
| Increase in legal entity limits for dual-write live synchronization | Users by admins, makers, or analysts |
Sep 27, 2021 |
- |
| Get recommendations on best practices via dual-write table map health check | Users by admins, makers, or analysts |
Sep 30, 2021 |
- |
| Freeze columns in grids | Users by admins, makers, or analysts |
Feb 1, 2021 |
Apr 2, 2021 |
| Open-source software update – upgrade to React 17 | Users by admins, makers, or analysts |
Feb 1, 2021 |
Apr 2, 2021 |
| Updates to client feature states | Users, automatically |
Feb 1, 2021 |
Apr 2, 2021 |
| Align interaction patterns for combo boxes with those of look-up controls | Users by admins, makers, or analysts |
Mar 5, 2021 |
Apr 30, 2021 |
| Allow admins to select default document types | Users by admins, makers, or analysts |
Mar 5, 2021 |
Apr 30, 2021 |
| Lifecycle Services Asset library performance improvement | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Apr 12, 2021 |
May 10, 2021 |
| Allow configuration of the publish batch size in the Excel add-in | Users, automatically |
Apr 23, 2021 |
Jul 2, 2021 |
| Pass legal entity context to embedded canvas apps | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Apr 23, 2021 |
Jul 2, 2021 |
| Visual update for wizards | Users by admins, makers, or analysts |
Apr 23, 2021 |
Jul 2, 2021 |
| Internet Explorer end-of-support notifications | Users, automatically |
May 28, 2021 |
Jul 12, 2021 |
| Authentication for Finance and Operations apps upgraded to OpenIdConnect | Users, automatically | - |
Jul 30, 2021 |
| Lifecycle Services list environments API | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Aug 1, 2021 |
Sep 1, 2021 |
| Synthetic monitoring of Service Fabric environments | Users, automatically | - |
Sep 17, 2021 |
| Translation support for organizational saved views | Users by admins, makers, or analysts |
Feb 1, 2021 |
Sep 30, 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.
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