October ’24 BC Release Wave – Import & Export Shopify Product Info

October ’24 BC Release Wave – What’s Included?

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central receives major updates twice a year, typically in April and October. These updates introduce significant new features and improvements to enhance the functionality and user experience of the platform. Most capabilities are made available in major updates, but some become available in minor updates, which are released monthly.

Microsoft is committed to delivering predictable updates to the service. Updates are continuous, touchless updates that provide new features and functionality. They eliminate the need to do expensive upgrades every few years.

What can we expect in the October 2024 release?

Metafields are a flexible way to add and store additional information about a Shopify resource, such as a product or variant. You can synchronize and manage metafield data from Business Central either using the UI or using the extensibility model to map fields, attributes, or related entries in Business Central to metafields in Shopify.

Shopify’s platform includes data models for fundamental commerce concepts out of the box. However, commerce is diverse and often requires more complex or specific data models. The custom data platform enables you to extend Shopify’s data models and create your own by using metafields. Metafields are a flexible way to add and store additional information about a Shopify resource, such as a product or variant. The additional information stored in metafields can be almost anything related to a resource. Some examples are specifications, size charts, downloadable documents, release dates, images, or part numbers.

We’re are adding the ability to import and export data stored in metafields into Business Central. Also, we’re providing an extensibility model that allows developers to map standard or custom fields, attributes, or other related entries in Business Central to metafields in Shopify.

You can see and edit metafields using the Shopify Metafields page, which you open from the Shopify Products and Shopify Vairants pages.

 Note: The page is editable if the Product Sync field is set to Products to Shopify and the Can update Shopify products toggle is turned on. When you insert a new record, the connector immediately sends a request to Shopify and stores the entry only when gets a response with the Shopify ID for the metafield. You can’t edit types that have AssistEdit functionality defined directly on the line.

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