D365 Business Central New Search Capability

In the 2024 Wave 2 release Users will be able to switch between the old “legacy” search and the new “modern” search.  Check out this blog – D365 Business Central New Search Capability for a  summary of how to optimise this functionality below (and as shared by Stephano Demiliani).

D365 Business Central New Search Capability – Business Central Users will be able to switch between the old “legacy” search (search in all possible columns available in the selected list page) and the new “modern” search (search in columns optimized for text search where the algorithm can do a full-text match):

The difference is visible in terms of performances and results. Just to give a quick example, let’s open the Item List page and search for the word “beans roasted”.

This is the result with the new modern search enabled:

As you can see, the result are filtered by the typed text, also if the searched word are in a different order in the item’s description.

If you perform the same search with the old legacy search enabled, this is the result:

No records found!

The default search method to use in list pages is controlled via Feature Management (Feature: Use optimized text search in lists):

and you can change the behaviour of the search box for each page using directly the new control in the page search box.

NOTE: D365 Business Central New Search Capability – The new “modern” search is (at the moment) planned to become the default behaviour starting from Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 2 release (version 27).

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