Business Central 2021 wave 2 (BC19) new features: Expanded coverage of in-app tours to more controls (Teaching tips for controls in FactBoxes)

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The preview environment for Dynamics 365 Business Central 2021 release wave 2 (BC19) is available now. Learn more: https://yzhums.com/17638/

Update: Generally available: Dynamics 365 Business Central 2021 release wave 2 (BC19)

I will continue to test and share some new features that I hope will be helpful.

Expanded coverage of in-app tours to more controls:

Business value:

This allows partners to educate the customers about using Business Central, by using the enhanced capabilities for tour authoring.

Feature details:

Starting in 2021 release wave 1, you can define in-app tours in AL code. In 2021 release wave 2, we’re expanding the coverage of the AL-driven tours to cover more types of controls. Specifically, we add support for displaying teaching tips for controls in FactBoxes.

In-app tours feature was added from 2021 release wave 1 (BC18), we have discussed it in detail before, please check the posts below.
In-app contextual help improvements (AboutTitle Property and AboutText Property)
How to switch off teaching tips (In-app contextual help)

In 2021 release wave 2 (BC19), Microsoft added In-app tours for more pages.
Such as Customer list

Item List:

Vendor List:

and so on.

Another improvement is Microsoft has added support for displaying teaching tips for controls in FactBoxes.

Let’s see some details.

In BC18.5:
You can set AboutTitle Property and AboutText Property for FactBoxes, but they cannot be displayed on the main page.

Test Video:

In BC19 Preview: Teaching tips for controls in FactBoxes can be displayed.

Test Video:

Good improvement, give it a try.

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Hope this will help.

Thanks for reading.

ZHU

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