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Use autofill with Copilot to suggest field values

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Users, automatically Apr 1, 2025 -

Business value

Entering data can take a lot of time and lead to errors. This challenge affects both casual users of Business Central and expert users who enter 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 choose them instead of typing.

Feature details

Autofill is a new capability of Copilot in Business Central.

Available from Update 26.0:

  • When you create a new record or edit an existing record, Copilot suggests values for some of the editable fields on the page.
  • Autofill works for fields in card and document pages, such as Customers, Sales Orders, and Items. It doesn't work for rows or columns. You can use Autofill on your own custom pages.
  • Suggestions come from your company data. They might be based on recently used values, frequently used values, or intelligent selections from a choice of values in a lookup or option field. Depending on the field and context, suggestions can also be AI-generated.
  • Copilot just suggests the value. You get the chance to review where the suggestion comes from. You stay in control and decide whether to apply the value, discard it, or replace it.

Enhancements with Update 26.3

  • Improved accessibility with support for screen readers.
  • On fields where Copilot suggests a value, you can now use Alt + Up arrow to show the info tip. Alt + Up toggles any available field information, such as the info tip, tooltip, or validation error.

Enhancements with Update 26.4

Copilot automatically searches the web for information and provides suggestions for customer or vendor contact details, product codes, and similar fields that typically contain public information.

  • Initially, only Sandbox environments support this feature.
  • To enable Copilot to get information from the web, administrators must first Enable Bing Search on the Copilot & agent capabilities page.

Try it out

Look for the sparkle icon on fields to ask Copilot for suggestions.

The sparkle icon appearing directly within field input boxes.

Copilot suggests values for multiple fields in the FastTab group. Use the information icon to see how Copilot created the suggestion.

A suggestion from Copilot.

Review a suggestion, and choose to keep or discard it. You can keep or discard all suggestions in bulk.

The keep all menu shown at the top of the page.

Note

  • As a production-ready preview, this feature is available for production and sandbox environments in 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 supports English only. Although you can use it with other languages, it might not work as expected. Language quality can vary based on your interaction and system settings. This variation can affect accuracy and the user experience.
  • AI-generated content might be incorrect.

Security, privacy, and AI

Copilot is built on Microsoft's comprehensive approach to enterprise security, privacy, compliance, and responsible AI. We believe that your data is your data. We don't use customer data in Business Central to train AI models.

Read the FAQ for Copilot data security and privacy for Dynamics 365.

Join the conversation

We're excited to have you with us on our Copilot journey.

Help us improve Dynamics 365 Business Central by discussing ideas, providing suggestions, and giving feedback. Use the forum at aka.ms/bcIdeas, or join the partner community discussion on the Dynamics 365 Business Central Partner Community Network on Viva Engage (formerly Yammer) to help shape the future of AI in Business Central.

Geographic areas

We release this feature into the following Microsoft Azure geographic areas:

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

Tell us what you think

Help us improve Dynamics 365 Business Central by discussing ideas, providing suggestions, and giving feedback. Use the forum at https://aka.ms/BCideas.

Additional resources

Autofill fields with Copilot (docs)