User productivity – new grid control – phase 2 - expected features in 2020 Release wave 1 plan from April to Sept 2020 in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management

User productivity – new grid control – phase 2 - expected features  in 2020 Release wave 1 plan from April to Sept 2020 in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management

Feature details
A private preview of a new and improved grid control was made available in October 2019 with
10.0.5 / Platform update 29. This feature is transitioning to public preview in the 2020 release
wave 1 with 10.0.9 / Platform update 33. Continued evolution of this feature will come as part of
monthly updates until this feature becomes generally available.

The new grid provides a number of benefits:
• Performance: The new grid provides improved rendering speed and a faster scrolling
experience.
• Positional scrolling: Users can now positionally scroll in the data that has been loaded in
the web browser. For example, if you have browsed through 10,000 rows in a grid, you can
click the middle of the scrollbar to immediately go to record 5,000 without having to retrieve
data from the server.
• General improvements: Various enhancements have been made to improve the usability of
the grid. For example, in the existing grid, users might run into situations occasionally where
the grid headers and data are misaligned, or the grid jumps while users scroll through data
or create new records.
• Reorder columns: Users can now reorder columns by dragging them. Hover the mouse
pointer over the column header, and then drag the gripper control that appears on the left
side of the column.

Totals: Business users can see totals for numeric columns in tabular grids. For example,
financial users can view totals for a filtered set of transactions for a specific customer. This
feature first became available as part of the new grid control feature in 10.0.5 / Platform
update 29, and will continue to evolve in subsequent platform versions.
• Fast data entry: This feature lets users enter data in a grid ahead of the server. Therefore, it
minimizes the need for users to wait for the server to validate one row in the grid before
they move to another row. This feature first became available as part of the new grid control
feature in 10.0.7 / Platform update 31, and will continue to evolve in subsequent platform
versions.

• Mathematical formulas: Users can now enter mathematical formulas into numeric cells in a
grid. For example, you can enter =15*4. To make the system recognize a value as an
expression, start the value with an equal sign (=).