Business Central 2024 wave 2 (BC25): Use drag and drop on file upload dialog to attach multiple files (New Documents Factbox)

Hi, Readers.
The public preview for Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 release wave 2 (BC25) is available. Learn more: Link.

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

Use drag and drop on file upload dialog to attach multiple files:

Business value:
Drag and drop functionality to attach multiple files to Business Central records makes it easier to manage files. This feature benefits users who work with multiple files and adds value to organizations by enhancing data organization and accessibility.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/release-plan/2024wave2/smb/dynamics365-business-central/use-drag-drop-attach-multiple-files?wt.mc_id=DX-MVP-5004336

With this wave (BC25), you can drag multiple files at the same time to attach them to records in Business Central. Select multiple files, and then just drag them to the file upload dialog.

The following pages and actions open a File Upload dialog. You can upload multiple files either by choosing Browse to manually select them or by dragging multiple files to the dialog.

Document Attachments List FactBox page, which is available on many document pages in the Attachments part of the FactBox pane.

Regarding this new Factbox, we discussed how to add it through customization in January this year, and this time Microsoft added it to the standard features👏.
PS: Dynamics 365 Business Central: Adding a FactBox with a list of attachments

Let’s look at a simple example.
Choose Upload files.

Now you can directly upload multiple files to the File Upload dialog.

Or click it and select multiple files.

Test video:

If you choose to use the new Attachments FactBox, you can use Business Central’s personalization capabilities to hide the legacy Document Attachments FactBox, which will be deprecated in upcoming releases.

Incoming Document Files FactBox page, which is available on pages related to incoming documents.

Email Editor page, which is used to draft and send emails from Business Central.

Great, give it a try!!!😁

PS: The following is the standard code for this action
Update 2024.09.13: Dynamics 365 Business Central: Import multiple item pictures at the same time without ZIP file (fileuploadaction, AllowMultipleFiles property, and FileUpload data type) – Customization

Test video in Youtube:

Business Central short video: Attach multiple files at the same time

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Hope this will help.

Thanks for reading.

ZHU