New design for report Language and Region settings

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Users by admins, makers, or analysts Sep 1, 2023 Oct 2, 2023

Business value

We've simplified language and regional settings, and you can change them to suit your needs for each specific report.

Feature details

The Format Region feature in Business Central introduces simplified language and regional settings that provide flexibility for users. This feature addresses existing design flaws:

  • The inability to customize formats for individual reports.
  • The lack of support for setting the same format as the report language on Customer/Vendor cards.
  • The dependency of report language and format on My Settings.

To address these design flaws, the Format Region feature introduces the following changes:

  • The Region (Format) setting is available on the Customer Card and Vendor Card pages. The Language setting was already available.
  • Both the Language and Format settings are available on report request pages.

The behavior and order of priority that determine the report output language and format are defined as follows (in order of importance):

  1. Language and Format from the request page.
  2. Language and Format defined on the document. These come from the customer or vendor settings.
  3. Language and Format defined on the Report AL object.
  4. Language and Format defined in My Settings.

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See also

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