Dynamics 365 Business Central: April 2019 Updates, part 5

Dynamics 365 Business Central: April 2019 Updates, part 5:

Hey, everyone. I'm actually in Iceland for the next two weeks. I thought I was going to get a vacation, but it's hard to get away from the YouTube, right? Never a vacation. What did we decide to do? Just do some videos from Iceland.

So yeah, I probably could've found a better backdrop than this, so hopefully at some point, find some mountains to show you, but you're more interested in seeing what happened in the April update than some mountains, right?

Let's take a look at another update.

Okay, so let's take a look at another update in the April update. We have something here called Importing Many Pictures. It's a new update here, Bulk Import Item Pictures. I have to admit when I saw this first, I was like well, okay, this could be doing so many things.

You could actually have it identify what it is using the artificial intelligence and come up with an item name and maybe automatically create an item name or an item, but it doesn't do that. It actually just matches the item number with the name of the picture and you can upload then the picture.

For example here, I'm missing two pictures for the mug and for the coffee bag. I have created a zip file with these pictures here, but these I have named the same as the item number right here. If I go into – I think you can actually go from inventory set-up into this, but you can also, of course, just type in bulk imports.

From here, I can go ahead and hit Import Item Pictures, and select the zip file, so I choose that here. That gets this one, pictures, and then it actually parses the zip file. This is cool. You put it into a zip file, and then it parses. You can't select many pictures, so I guess this is one way to get many files in through a zip.

It identifies by the name that this is the item, and then it's pending to upload. All these other pictures I had in there, it just skips it. It doesn't do anything with those.

It saddens me a little bit because it could've picked out that this is Atlantic cod and say, do you want to create an item for this, because it was in here. But no, maybe next time. The improvement to this is suggested hereby.

If I go in Import Pictures, that completes it. If I go back, I can see that my pictures have been updated. It's neat, and I think because Rapid Start doesn't do this, so we were missing getting the pictures in. If you had thousands of pictures, it'd be pretty hard to get it in. With this tool, we have that, so good job, Microsoft. This looks great.