There are times when you want to see if there have been additions made by other team members, e.g. a new authorisation request come in in the Request to Approve view. To get an update you have to close the view and reopen it.
A 'refresh' button would be very useful in this case.
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@The BC Team"The F5 keyboard shortcut refreshes the data on the current page in Business Central. We would like to hear your feedback on why the F5 key is insufficient."The function to "Refresh" the page may need further clarification. The [F5] key is interpreted by browsers as a request to refresh/reload the entire page and its content. Sometimes this leads to only the parent page being loaded, the user being returned to the Role Center, or the BC Web Client throwing the "Something went wrong." error.For example:In BC23, one can drill down on the "No. of Records" field on the Table Information page. The information is presented in a separate browser tab. Pressing the [F5] key to refresh the record information reloads the entire page, which, in this case, results in the "Something went wrong." error.The way that I would interpret this idea is to add a "Refresh" page action that behaves the same as invoking CurrPage.Update() in code. The page action should be present on all pages throughout the application, similar to how it was in the NAV RoleTailored Client.
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This would be helpful because the reality is a lot of users have never gotten into the habit of using keyboard shortcuts and prefer to use their mouse to click buttons on the screen. We have users who even after 7 years using NAV and after constant reminders still have not adopted use of F5 (or F8, one of the most convenient shortcuts for data entry). Also many keyboards now have F keys disabled by default, replaced with alternate function keys for changing settings like system volume or display brightness, and many users do not know how to toggle between these settings.
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Hi Ian,
Thanks for the recommendation. We'll continue to track votes on this idea and consider it for a future release of the product.
Regards,
Jared Hall
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Business Central Team (administrator) on 7/18/2023 2:39:13 PM