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| Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|
| Users by admins, makers, or analysts | - | 
Apr 1, 2026 |
Business value
Enhanced Analysis Mode improves how organizations deliver and standardize ad-hoc analytics inside Business Central by letting partners and developers package curated analysis experiences with their extensions, rather than relying on separately maintained configurations.
This reduces setup and drift across environments because the same analysis definition can be deployed consistently wherever the extension is installed. Administrators also gain stronger governance over adoption by using built-in Designer, Personalization, and Profile Configuration capabilities to control whether extension-provided analysis views are available for specific environments, users, and profiles.
For users, the feature supports richer, more discoverable analysis experiences through descriptions and tooltips, making it easier to understand what each analysis view is intended to show and when to use it, especially when multiple views are shipped as part of an app.
Feature details
Prior to this release, a partner had to create data analysis definitions in the client, copy and edit links, and then publish these links on a webpage. Then they needed to ask users to click the links to install the data analysis definitions.
With this release, AL developers can simply add data analysis definitions to their extensions/apps. This then makes the data analysis definitions available to users.
This is done by allowing developers to export analysis configurations created in the client as JSON files and reference them on page objects by using the new analysisviews control syntax together with the DefinitionFile property.
These packaged analysis definitions can be deployed through extensions and found directly within the Business Central client, where their availability can be controlled by admins through Designer, Personalization, and Profile Configuration modes to show or hide extension-provided analysis views across environments, users, and profiles.
We also introduce support for defining analysis view descriptions and tooltips, enabling users and developers to attach contextual metadata to analysis layouts within the application interface.
In a minor update to version 28, new read-only analysis tabs are added to list and worksheet pages across multiple application areas including Sales, Finance, Inventory, Purchasing, and Auditing, delivering predefined analysis layouts such as Sales Orders, Expected Sales Volume, Customer Sales by Volume, Aged Accounts by Month, Change Log Entries by user activity, Users by status and license type, G/L Entries by source, Fixed Asset value tracking and depreciation over time, Inventory movements and throughput, Vendor Ledger Entries, and Goods Received Not Invoiced.
These analysis tabs are found as extension-provided layouts within the application and can be duplicated from their read-only state to support additional client-side analysis scenarios based on grouping, aggregation, filtering, and column configuration defined in the exported JSON layout.
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