From the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central blogs: Export data to Excel; Generate launch.json; Preview PDF attachments; Agent capabilities

In this review of the Dynamics 365 Business Central blogs:

• How to export data to Excel in analysis mode
• Generate launch.json from the web client in wave 1 2025
• Preview PDF attachments directly in the web client
• Agent capabilities: how much [do] they cost me?

How to export data to Excel in analysis mode

Writing on his blog, Yun Zhu noted that data analysis mode was first released as a preview in early 2023 to help users analyze list pages. Later that year, it became fully available in Business Central, allowing users to analyze data from both list pages and queries.

Zhu wrote that on a list page, you can export data to Excel using either "open in Excel" or "edit in Excel." He stated that open in Excel lets you view and change the data in Excel, but the edits stay in your Excel file only.

However, he pointed out that in analysis mode, there are no such actions. In his blog post, Zhu offered two ways for you to export the current data to Excel.

Generate launch.json from the web client in Business Central – wave 1 2025

Writing on his blog, Ammolh Saallvi stated that with the 2025 Wave 1 release of D365BC, developers can now create a launch.json file right from the web client.