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The Jobs entity in Business Central is wrongly named. This is a legacy issue that has been carried over for more than 30 years. The Jobs module was originally created for auditor companies. Their employees worked on "cases," so the original danish word became "Sag" (directly translated to "Case"). When PC&C created the first English translation, it got translated to "Job", this was part of a version with other strange translations (See here: https://youtu.be/JGlUgR47CLo )

Since then, we have had to explain to every single customer asking for a Project Accounting Module that we have that, it's just named funny.

Quite often, we end up renaming the entities from Job to Project, Job Task to Project Task and so on as a customer customization. Simply because it's truly the wrong word.

To avoid breaking many things, the submitted Idea is to "rename" the captions and documentation, not actually renaming table and field names.
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Thank you for your feedback. The requested functionality was released.

Sincerely,
Andrei Panko
PM, Microsoft