Business Central 2025 wave 1 (BC26): Autofill fields with Copilot (New capability of Copilot)

Hi, Readers.
The public preview for Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 release wave 1 (BC26) is available. Learn more: Link.

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

Autofill fields with Copilot:

Business value:
Entering data can be time-consuming and error-prone, both for casual users of Business Central, as well as expert users who are tasked with entering record after record throughout their workday. Microsoft Copilot is an AI-powered assistant for work that helps spark creativity, boost productivity, and eliminate tedious tasks. Copilot now suggests appropriate field values so that you can simply choose to keep them instead of typing.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/release-plan/2025wave1/smb/dynamics365-business-central/autofill-fields-copilot?wt.mc_id=DX-MVP-5004336

Copilot is the AI-powered assistant that helps spark creativity, boost productivity, and eliminate tedious tasks. Copilot in Business Central is the world’s first AI-powered assistant across all lines of business. With Copilot in Business Central, small and medium-sized organizations empower their workers through intuitive AI tools that boost creativity and save time. More details: Copilot in Business Central overview.

Autofill is a new capability of Copilot in Business Central. You can get hands-on with Autofill as early as March 2025 using sandbox environments on preview version 26.

This is demonstrated in the official video below, Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Release Wave 1 Release Highlights.

Let’s do a simple test.
On the Customer Card, look for the sparkle icon on fields to ask Copilot for suggestions.

Copilot makes suggestions for multiple fields within the FastTab (group). Use the information icon to understand how Copilot made the suggestion.

Test video:

Review, keep, or discard a suggestion. You can also do this in bulk by keeping or discarding all suggestions.

If you don’t make any selections, you can’t close this page.

If there is no suggestion, the following message will be displayed.

Feature details:

• When drafting a new record or editing an existing record, Copilot can suggest values for some of the editable fields on the page.
• Autofill is available for fields (but not rows or columns) in card and document pages such as Customers, Sales Orders, Items, or even your own custom pages.
• Suggestions are grounded in your company data, and might be based on recently used values, frequently used values, or intelligent selection from a choice of values in a lookup or option field. They can also be AI-generated depending on the field and context.
• Copilot simply suggests the value to you, giving you the opportunity to review where the suggestion originates from. Ultimately, users remain in control and decide to apply that value, discard it, or replace it.
• Available later this wave: Copilot will automatically search the web for more information and provide suggestions for customer or vendor contact details, product codes, and similar fields that typically contain public information.

If you are interested in the function, I still recommend watching the the official video above first. The BC Copilot feature is getting more and more exciting. Give it a try!!!😁

Note:

• This feature is available as a production-ready preview for production and sandbox environments of any country localization. Production-ready previews are subject to supplemental terms of use. For more information, see Supplemental terms of use for Dynamics 365 preview.
• This feature is supported in English only. While it can be used in other languages, it might not function as intended. Language quality might vary based on the user’s interaction or system settings, which might impact accuracy and the user experience.
• AI-generated content might be incorrect.

This feature will be released into the following Microsoft Azure geographic areas:

• Germany
• Norway
• Singapore
• South Africa
• Switzerland
• United Arab Emirates
• United States
• Europe
• Asia Pacific
• United Kingdom
• Australia
• Brazil
• Canada
• India
• Japan
• France
• Korea

PS: Business Central 2025 wave 1 (BC26): The public preview of the Sales Order Agent is now available in both the United States and the United Kingdom

What’s new: Autofill fields with Copilot:

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Hope this will help.

Thanks for reading.

ZHU