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Boost productivity with the modern action bar

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Users, automatically - Apr 5, 2024

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You can tailor the action bar to fit the needs of your industry, company, or yourself. Add actions that you want to make available in an easily discoverable and consistent way across the product for new users to quickly learn the product. For proficient users, tailor the action bar to your business-specific needs.

Feature details

In 2022 release wave 2, we introduced the modern action bar feature. Until now, you turned on the modern action bar as an optional feature by choosing All Users in the Enabled for column on the Feature Management page. With 2024 release wave 1, you automatically enable the modern action bar for all users.

When you sign in to 2024 release wave 1, a callout explains the changes in the action bar.

Shows modern action bar callout.

When you enable the modern action bar for all users, you get these improvements:

  • The Copilot icon in the action bar gives you direct access to a Copilot prompt. You can also display the Copilot callout on list pages.
  • To save space, the action bar removes captions for the Search and Analyze actions. Select the Search icon or use the F3 keyboard shortcut to expand or collapse the search control. The same pattern applies to the Analyze icon, which turns on analysis mode on the page.

The modern action bar uses split buttons. A split button combines a button and a menu. You get one-click access to the first action in a menu without opening the menu.

Most new Business Central users feel confident with split buttons and likely know the concept from other applications. However, if split buttons or some of the other action bar improvements cause problems for you, use the new personalization option to use the legacy action bar. The Legacy Action Bar toggle is available on the My Settings page.

Shows highlighted Legacy Action Bar toggle in My Settings page.

To manage the legacy action bar setting for users, administrators go to the User Settings page and use the Legacy Action Bar toggle to turn the legacy action bar on or off for users.

For more information about the modern action bar, see Action bar improvements.

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