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Deprecated Features in the application

Hi all,

referring to Deprecated Features in the application - Business Central | Microsoft Learn, understand that below highlighted legacy reports have be labelled "Obsolete" and going to be removed soon, however, do you guys know the exact timing it going to remove?

I would think this is a huge impact to all existing users, while Microsoft has highlighted alternatives such as data analysis capabilities on list pages and queries, reports with Excel layouts, and Power BI reports for most functional areas, but my testing has identified issues with the Excel-based reports.

For example, Aged Acc. Payables and Receivables Report

The issue appears to be related to the Currency Code, where:

- If a customer or vendor has overdue invoices in multiple currencies,

- The report captures only a single currency and does not correctly reflect the individual invoice currency codes.

Due to this limitation, I only able to advise users to continue using the obsolete reports to ensure data accuracy.

In addition, I also find it challenging to reproduce the original Aged A/R and A/P report format using the Excel layout and pivot table approach. For example, it is difficult to replicate:

- Display of External Document No.

- Aggregation of amounts grouped by vendor/customer in the same format as the standard reports

It is also unclear how users without knowledge of pivot tables or an understanding of the underlying data structure would be able to effectively use the Excel layout reports.

Additionally, most of the users have already reply on the Legacy report layout in PDF format.

Do you have any other ideas about this? Seek for your kind replies! :))

Thanks.