Hello Readers,
Hope you all are doing good.
Many of you might aware of the new features in Business Central Wave 1 2021 or BC 18.
Among them there are two new properties in pages and controls i.e. AboutTitle Property and AboutText Property. You can set it on the pages, groups, parts, fields, and actions.
Why this brings my attention?
This is a new visual aids help call out features and key business process fields
and actions in Dynamics 365 Business Central, allowing the customer to
self-learn and get educated on how to start using the product.
and actions in Dynamics 365 Business Central, allowing the customer to
self-learn and get educated on how to start using the product.
Let’s take a tour, how we can set it up on the page, field and action.
1. AboutTitle Property: it is use to set the title of entity in a About box.
2. AboutText Property : it is use to set the text for the entity used in the About box.
I have added below codes into my custom extension.
i) Added About property for page.
ii) Added About property for field.
iii) Added About property for action button.
It’s time to see the output.
Navigate to my custom page i.e. API Collections.
At very first instance, page About property will execute and popup a dialog box with the text we have set in property.
Now choose Take tour, it will move into next about property which is set in fields.
and to the next field and so on.
Action button About property.
In BaseAppication of 18.0 (Platform 18.0.22913.0 + Application
18.0.22967.0), there are not many pages that use this property yet.
18.0.22967.0), there are not many pages that use this property yet.
Example. : When users open the Posted Sales Invoices page for the first time, they will see the following new tour message.
For more information you can check out the Microsoft document.
Hope you have liked the blog.
I will continue to test and share some new features that I hope will help.
Thank you,
Anish Agrawal
NAV/Business Central Developer
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Hi Anish,
I have few queries for this:
1. What would be the sequence of the flow once user will choose to take tour.
2. Can the end user swith off or on this functionality if he wants?
Thank You,
Anuj
Hi Anuj..
Below is the answers to your questions.
1. What would be the sequence of the flow once user will choose to take tour.
Ans – It first execute the Page Property then after Page Group then fields/controls then at last action property.
2. Can the end user swith off or on this functionality if he wants?
Ans – once you take a tour it will not popup the tour window for that page again, if user wants to re-take the tour then they can do by clicking on the page name at the top of the page.
hope my answer will help you to understand more.
Thank you,
Anish
Thanks Anish.