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v1.1.1

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@github-actions github-actions released this 28 Oct 12:15

Added

  • Help & feedback in everyone's language. If your people use Business
    Central in different languages, the priorities, the email subjects and the
    message for urgent problems can now be written once per language. On the
    settings page the fields show the text for the language chosen at the top;
    pick another one to write the next. People get the text in the language
    Business Central is in, and the report they send says the same. The team
    file and Intune can carry the texts per language too.

  • Version and documentation link in the side panel. The start view shows
    the installed BC Buddy version and a link to the documentation, in its
    lower-right corner.

  • Paste a screenshot into a report. Take a screenshot with Print Screen or
    Win+Shift+S, click in the note box of Report a problem and paste: the
    picture becomes the next step, with your note as its caption. This lets you
    capture things that vanish when you move the mouse, such as an error
    message that only shows while you hover its icon.

  • Report a problem from an error message. Business Central's error
    messages now have a Report a problem link next to Share details.
    One click opens the report with a screenshot of the error as a step, the
    message as its note, and the error details that Copy error details would
    give (session IDs, time and the AL call stack), so you no longer copy and
    paste them yourself. A report you were already writing keeps its steps and
    gets the error as its next one. It needs Help & feedback to be on, and it
    replaces what is on your clipboard.

Fixed

  • Screenshot editor: picking a colour leaves Blur. Choosing a colour while
    the blur tool is active now switches back to the arrow, so the cross no
    longer stays on blur.
  • Report a problem: Done goes back to Email / Download after a change.
    Once a report went out, changing it (a step added, removed or edited, the
    note, the type or the priority) brings the Email or Download button back, so
    you do not close a changed report without sending it again.
  • BC Buddy icon on on-premises servers. The icon in the top bar, before the
    gear, now also shows on Business Central on-premises. It was only there on
    the Microsoft 365 top bar of online environments.

Chrome Web Store: none.

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v1.1.0

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@github-actions github-actions released this 25 Oct 13:43

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  • {tenant} can go in the ribbon, banner and tab title texts, to show
    which customer you are working for, such as contoso.com.
  • Your own rules can use your team's styles. Every rule can now pick a
    style from the shared file, and your last own style can go while the team
    file has some.
  • Bar at the top. A banner can now sit above Business Central's own top
    bar. It moves the page down, so it covers nothing.
  • Sample rules from the start. A new install comes with the four sample
    rules, so you can start from them. Nothing is coloured until you switch on
    Use environment colours under Environments. When your team's shared
    file brings rules, they take over from the samples you did not change.
  • The company, also when the address has none. Right after you sign in,
    Business Central online often leaves the company out of the address. BC
    Buddy now reads it from the page, for {company} and for rules on
    Company.
  • Help & feedback. Report a problem to your helpdesk, or send feedback or
    a suggestion, without leaving Business Central. Click the BC Buddy icon in
    the top bar, or in the browser's toolbar, and pick Report a problem or
    Feedback or a suggestion: a panel opens next to the page. Write what you
    did step by step, with a screenshot of each step (the whole screen or just
    the part that matters), and make words bold, italic or underlined with
    Ctrl+B, Ctrl+I or Ctrl+U. Drag a screenshot up or down to change the order
    of the steps. Point things out on a screenshot with an arrow, a
    pen or a box, blur what others must not see, or start over with Clear
    all
    . Give the report a priority, then click Email: a new email opens
    in your email app with the screenshots inside, ready to send. The first
    time, the browser asks whether BC Buddy may open the file it saves for
    that. Under the arrow next to it, Email (draft) opens your email app
    and puts the report on the clipboard for you to paste; Download saves
    it as a web page; Copy puts it on the clipboard. The report says which
    environment and company you were in, with every step's page title linking
    to the page, and ends with the tenant and when it was made. It stays while
    you move around Business Central or close the panel; Done or the bin
    throws it away. Off until you switch on Use Help &
    feedback
    under Help & feedback.
  • Set up Help & feedback for your team. Under Help & feedback you set
    the helpdesk's email address, the priorities people can pick and the one a
    report starts with, and the email subjects, with {prio}, {company},
    {environment} and {title} filled in. You can
    also add a short message, with a Teams link or phone number if you like,
    that people see when they pick the most urgent priority. Put them
    in your team's shared file and everyone gets them; they then show Set by
    your organisation.
    and cannot be changed, also not by an import. IT can
    set them, and each part's switch, by policy too.
  • Switch parts on for your team. Your team's shared file can now switch
    the Web client improvements and environment colours on or off for
    everyone, as a starting point each person can still change.

Changed

  • One switch per part. Web client, Environments and Help &
    feedback
    each have their own switch at the top of their page, instead of
    one switch for all of BC Buddy. A rule no longer has a switch of its own: a
    rule that is there colours. Keyboard shortcuts come with the Web client.
    When you update, everything you used keeps working. If you were using
    environment colours, the rules you had switched off are removed.
  • Keyboard shortcuts in a side panel. The BC Buddy icon (two people), just
    before Business Central's settings gear in the top bar, now opens the
    browser's side panel, next to Business Central instead of on top of it.
    Shortcuts for this page there shows the shortcuts. The panel follows
    you from page to page, has a gear for the BC Buddy settings and a moon
    button for dark mode, switches language as soon as you pick another one,
    and the shortcuts view closes by itself when you leave Business Central. The
    BC Buddy entry in Business Central's settings pane is gone: the
    panel's gear takes you to the settings.

Fixed

  • No red on hover in the top bar. Pointing at the Environment button
    in a coloured top bar showed Business Central's own red. It now keeps the
    rule's colour.
  • Readable banner text. On a see-through banner or corner ribbon, the text
    is now black or white for the colour you actually see. Before, a dark colour
    at half opacity got white text on what looked like light pink.
  • Striped rows now cover the whole row in lists shown inside a page, such
    as the one on Performance Profiler. Before, only the narrow column with
    the ⋮ button got the grey.
  • No more overlap in the top bar. In a narrower window the BC Buddy icon
    pushed Business Central's buttons over your name. Where the bar has no room
    for it, the icon now steps aside until the window is wide enough again.

Chrome Web Store: none.

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v1.0.17

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@github-actions github-actions released this 21 Oct 11:31

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  • Hide the FactBox pane: a page you open for the first time shows without
    the pane of extra details on the right, so the page gets the room. Open it on
    a page and it stays open there. Off until you switch it on under Web
    client
    .
  • Dark mode for the BC Buddy settings: the moon button at the top right
    switches the page to dark, the sun back to light. Until you click it, the
    page follows Windows.

Fixed

  • In a wider dropdown, the column headers now line up with the rows
    again, and a list that fits no longer gets a horizontal scrollbar. This
    happened mostly with the browser zoomed out.
  • The copy icon no longer covers the end of a value in a narrow column,
    such as the No. in the first column of a list: it sits just after the
    text.

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v1.0.16

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@github-actions github-actions released this 20 Oct 11:36

Added

  • Resize panes: drag the left edge of Help, Copilot, Page
    Inspection
    or the Personalize field list to make it wider or narrower.
    BC Buddy remembers the width; double-click the edge to go back to Business
    Central's own width.

Changed

  • Copy values now also works in the Page Inspection pane
    (Ctrl+Alt+F1): copy the page, the table, or the value of any table field.

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v1.0.15

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@github-actions github-actions released this 18 Oct 18:01

Added

  • Choose the language of BC Buddy with the globe at the top right of its
    settings: English, Nederlands or Français, whatever language your browser
    is in. Until you choose, it follows your browser.
  • Reset to defaults under Web client puts every switch and slider back
    to how BC Buddy starts out, or to your team's choices when you use a shared
    file. Undo takes it back.
  • Load samples under Environments adds four ready-made rules of your
    own: Master Data in yellow, Production in green, UAT in red and Development
    in blue, with the styles Full and Subtle. Rules you already have stay
    as they are. Not shown when your IT
    department installed BC Buddy or set a shared file.
  • Several values in one condition: contains and does not contain
    take a list separated by commas, so one rule can cover several
    environments, for example Environment contains DEV, UAT, QA.

Changed

  • Environments now fills in Test URL from your open Business Central
    tab as soon as you open it, so the green ticks show right away which rules
    fit that tab.

Fixed

  • A rule on Company now fits a company with a + in its name, such as
    R+D Solutions. BC Buddy used to read the + as a space.
  • An address without an environment, such as
    businesscentral.dynamics.com/contoso.com, opens your default environment,
    and BC Buddy now reads it as Production. Rules on Production used to miss
    it.

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v1.0.14

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@github-actions github-actions released this 17 Oct 09:08

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  • Striped rows: every other row in a list gets a light grey, so you stay
    on the right line in a wide list. Off by default; switch it on under
    Web client in the options.
  • Keyboard shortcuts: a keyboard icon in the top bar of Business Central
    shows the shortcuts that work where you are: the page's own actions, such
    as Post (F9), what works in the lines, the list, the card or the date field
    you are in, and a few that work anywhere, with a link to Microsoft's full
    list. The panel stays open while you work, changes along when you open
    another page, and you can drag it by its title.
    Off by default; switch it on under Web client in the options.
  • Set up by your IT department: IT can install BC Buddy on every computer
    and fill in your team's shared file for you, for example with Intune. The
    address then says Set by your organisation and cannot be changed.
    Instructions for IT are at the bottom of Sharing with your team.

Changed

  • A shared file that could not be loaded is tried again after 1, 2, 4 and 8
    hours, instead of only the next day.

Fixed

  • A RegEx condition can no longer freeze your browser. A pattern too
    complex to check safely does not match, and the condition says why.

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v1.0.13

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@github-actions github-actions released this 16 Oct 07:51

Maintenance release - nothing that changes what you see.


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v1.0.12

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@github-actions github-actions released this 11 Oct 16:57

Added

  • Copy values: rest the mouse on a value in a list or a FactBox, or on a
    field that is a link on a card (Balance (LCY)), and a small copy icon
    appears. Click it to copy the value exactly as Business Central shows it —
    also a No. or an amount that is a link, which you could not select before. Works on values you cannot edit. On by default; it is the
    first switch under Web client in the options.
  • Week numbers in the date picker: the calendar that opens from a date
    field shows the week number in front of each week. They are Business
    Central's own week numbers, which it keeps hidden until you press
    Shift+Home in the calendar; BC Buddy turns them on for you. Press Shift+Home
    to turn them off again, and Business Central remembers it. On by default;
    switch it off under Web client in the options.
  • Hide the notifications icon: the bell at the top right of Business
    Central, which opens Notifications, is hidden. On by default; switch it off
    under Web client in the options to get the bell back.
  • Share your Web client settings: Export now also saves the switches
    and sliders under Web client, so a team can hand out a set of defaults.
    Importing such a file applies them. Through a shared configuration they are
    defaults: each is applied on the first sync, and after that only when the
    team changes it in the file, so a colleague who switches something off
    keeps it off.
  • BC Buddy in the gear menu: in Business Central online, the gear icon's
    Settings pane now has a BC Buddy section with a Settings link that
    opens the options. It is there whenever BC Buddy is installed, also while it
    is switched off.
  • French support
  • Pin the action bar: a page opens with the row of actions under its tabs
    pinned, instead of the way Business Central picks. Unpin it on a page and
    that page stays unpinned. On by default; switch it off under Web client
    in the options.

Fixed

  • Maximize pages no longer overrules you. A page you switched back to
    narrow or to tiles now stays that way the next time you open it, instead of
    being widened again.

  • Layouts in a shared configuration now reach your colleagues. Until now a
    shared rule always looked like the plain default layout, whatever layout it
    had in the file.

  • The text in a banner or corner ribbon could show up as a tiny dash while
    Size was on automatic. It now fits itself to the banner again.


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v1.0.11

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@github-actions github-actions released this 09 Oct 15:17

Added

  • Turn off animations: pages, dialogs, FastTabs and panes in Business
    Central appear at once instead of sliding or fading in. Progress indicators
    keep moving. On by default; switch it off under Web client in the options.

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v1.0.10

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@github-actions github-actions released this 06 Oct 21:13

Added

  • Highlight the current line — in editable lists, such as the lines of a
    sales order or a journal, the line you are on gets a light tint across its
    full width. Business Central itself only shows a small arrow at the far
    left. Read-only lists keep their own highlight. On by default; switch it off
    under Web client.

Changed

  • The options take less reading. Web client and Import / export are
    short lists: each setting has its name with its switch or button on the
    right. Hover a setting to see what it does; a link under Web client leads to
    the documentation.
  • Under Environments, your rules now come first and layouts second.
  • A layout lists its parts — ribbon, frame, banner, tab title and favicon — as
    rows: its name, its settings and a switch on the right. Hover the name to see
    what it does; a part that is off shows only its name and switch. The tokens
    you can use in the texts ({name}, {environment}, {company}, {title})
    are on one line at the bottom, instead of behind a question mark beside
    every text field. The banner's Opacity is a slider of five steps, like
    the frame's thickness.
  • A rule's on/off switch no longer has the word On beside it, and the
    popup's Extension active is now the same switch as in the options.
  • Shared configuration fits on one line: the URL with Synchronise
    beside it.

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