Document Central
Extension Features & Optimizations
| Feature | General Availability |
|---|---|
| Migration of documents from the BC Standard to Document Central | February, 2025 |
| Dossier View | March, 2025 |
| Optimized Certificate-Based Authentication for Document Central Report Queue | March, 2025 |
| Enhanced Document Relation Support for Non-Primary Key Fields | March, 2025 |
| Move elements to document inbound list | March, 2025 |
| Document Central Link | March, 2025 |
| Document Overview Accessibility via Action Bar in Business Central | April, 2025 |
| Metadata Regeneration Feature for Dossier View in Document Central | April, 2025 |
| Redaction of Critical Information | September, 2025 |
| Hash-Based Document Identification in Document Central | September, 2025 |
| Improved Permission Display and Naming Consistency | September, 2025 |
| SharePoint Label Synchronization | September, 2025 |
| ABS to SharePoint Migration | February, 2026 |
| SharePoint to ABS Migration with Retention and Synchronization Enhancements | February, 2026 |
| Handling of Original Creation Date in Azure Blob Storage Migrations | February, 2026 |
Migration of documents from the BC Standard to Document Central
This feature allows customers to migrate documents stored using the Business Central attachment standard into Document Central. Migration can be done at the record level via the Document Central Factbox or in bulk through the Document Central Module Setup. Benefits include simplified migration, user flexibility in retaining or deleting migrated documents, enhanced traceability with migration logs, and improved efficiency for large datasets through bulk migration with mapping selection.
General Availability: February, 2025
Dossier View
Introducing the Dossier View feature in Document Central, designed to significantly improve loading times within the Document Central Factbox. This enhancement establishes a direct link between Master Data and Document Central Documents, particularly beneficial on pages managing numerous documents. Configured via a Custom Field within the Field Mappings section, metadata values from Master Data, such as "Customer No.", are automatically populated. The Dossier View utilizes this Custom Field to efficiently filter documents, substantially reducing load times and optimizing document retrieval. This results in a streamlined user experience and increased efficiency through targeted filtering based on Master Data.
General Availability: March, 2025
Optimized Certificate-Based Authentication for Document Central Report Queue
Enhance your document management with optimized certificate-based authentication in Document Central. This update ensures secure, continuous, and efficient processing of reports by minimizing redundant authentication requests and eliminating token-related vulnerabilities. Enjoy improved performance, scalability, and reduced administrative overhead, making your enterprise document handling seamless and reliable.
General Availability: March, 2025
Enhanced Document Relation Support for Non-Primary Key Fields
Introducing Enhanced Document Relation Management: Our upcoming feature addresses the challenge of managing document relations between Voyage and Call tables, especially when constrained by primary key limitations. We will implement an event to bypass the primary key dependency, allowing document relations to be established using the SimovaID field. This ensures accurate document associations without altering the table structure. These enhancements will ensure accurate document relations, improved system robustness, and scalability.
General Availability: March, 2025
Move elements to document inbound list
The new enhancement for the "Document Central Link" Outlook extension allows users to forward emails or their attachments directly into the Document Inbound extension, populating them into an inbound processing list within Business Central. This feature provides a fallback process when automatic record matching fails, enhancing the flexibility and robustness of document management, and reducing manual email handling by consolidating unmatched emails into a single processing location.
General Availability: March, 2025
Document Central Link
Introducing Document Central Link, an innovative feature that integrates Document Central into Outlook, enhancing document management efficiency by allowing users to attach and manage files directly within emails.
General Availability: March, 2025
Document Overview Accessibility via Action Bar in Business Central
The upcoming feature enhances the accessibility of the Document Overview in Document Central. Users will now have the ability to open the Document Overview from the action bar, across all areas where the Document Central Factbox is currently present. This feature is especially beneficial for users with smaller displays who prefer a minimized UI, as it ensures that Document Central features remain available even if the Factbox is hidden. This new feature improves overall usability and accessibility without requiring the Factbox to be enabled.
General Availability: April, 2025
Metadata Regeneration Feature for Dossier View in Document Central
Introducing a new feature to enhance the Dossier View functionality by retroactively regenerating metadata for existing documents. This update allows DMS administrators to add missing metadata fields, ensuring all documents are correctly displayed in the Dossier View. This improvement eliminates the need for additional search configurations, maintaining performance while providing complete document overviews and offering a valuable troubleshooting tool for administrators.
General Availability: April, 2025
Redaction of Critical Information
Introducing advanced information access control within Document Central, allowing administrators to restrict user access to sensitive content within documents. This feature leverages both explicit configurations and an AI-driven process for automatic redaction. An asynchronous document preview process ensures smooth loading and prevents system blocking, enhancing user experience. Benefits include enhanced security, improved system performance, and flexible data redaction to meet compliance needs.
General Availability: September, 2025
Hash-Based Document Identification in Document Central
Introducing a new feature in Document Central: Hash Value Integration for Document Entry Table. This enhancement adds a hash value to each document stored, facilitating unique identification and verification. The hash value will be generated during document storage and used to check for duplicates, ensuring data integrity and optimizing repository space. Additionally, it will improve search and retrieval performance, allowing faster access to documents based on content uniqueness, and strengthen compliance by providing a consistent method for verifying document authenticity.
General Availability: September, 2025
Improved Permission Display and Naming Consistency
This feature improves user experience by providing clear feedback when access to the Document Central Factbox is denied, displaying a message instead of a dark zero. It also standardizes the terminology for "Permission Control" across the product, enhancing transparency and consistency while reducing unnecessary admin inquiries.
General Availability: September, 2025
SharePoint Label Synchronization
This feature enhances synchronization between Document Central and SharePoint by ensuring that document labels applied in SharePoint are accurately reflected in Business Central. This update improves metadata consistency across platforms and enhances compliance tracking by maintaining label integrity after synchronization.
General Availability: September, 2025
ABS to SharePoint Migration
This feature facilitates the automated migration of data from an ABS repository to SharePoint, preserving metadata, content types, and version history. It ensures a seamless transition and integration with SharePoint's document management capabilities, eliminating the need for manual intervention.
General Availability: February, 2026
SharePoint to ABS Migration with Retention and Synchronization Enhancements
Enhance your migration process from SharePoint Online to ABS with our new feature that ensures documents with active retention policies are handled correctly. This update provides clear messaging to inform administrators about retention rules, an option to synchronize data during migration, and the ability to transfer retention labels from SharePoint to ABS while maintaining compliance. Benefits include preventing accidental deletion of documents, ensuring migration completeness, and providing transparency and user guidance through clear system messages.
General Availability: February, 2026
Handling of Original Creation Date in Azure Blob Storage Migrations
Introducing our latest feature designed to preserve and utilize original creation/index dates during document migrations from a source DMS to Azure Blob Storage (ABS). This enhancement ensures that migrated documents reflect their true creation dates, enabling accurate filtering, sorting, and retention period calculations in Document Central. It also lays the groundwork for seamless migrations between SharePoint and ABS, ensuring correct metadata preservation and manipulation. This feature supports GDPR compliance by using the correct creation date for retention policies.
General Availability: February, 2026
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