Removed or deprecated features

Published on Jun 25, 2026

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Removed or deprecated features in STAEDEAN Life Sciences:

A removed feature is no longer available in the product.
A deprecated feature is not in active development and may be removed in a future update.

Before any feature is removed from the product, the deprecation notice will be announced in the release notes 12 months prior to the removal.

Release 10.0.48.49 (June 2026)

Feature: Allow next operations before quality order completion (Quality associations)

Module	Life Sciences Quality Control & Assurance
Reason for deprecation/removal	This functionality is being replaced by Microsoft Event blocking, as defined in quality associations.
Replaced by another feature?	Yes
Product areas affected	Quality Management
Status	Deprecated. The STAEDEAN Allow next feature can now be disabled in the Life Sciences Quality Control & Assurance parameters form, thus allowing the usage of Microsoft's Event blocking functionality. The feature may be removed starting from June 2026.

Release 10.0.47.44 (March 2026)

Feature: Approved customer list

Module	Life Sciences Supply Chain Management
Reason for deprecation/removal	Replaced by Microsoft "Approved customer list" feature
Replaced by another feature?	Yes
Product areas affected	Supply Chain Management – Sales and marketing
Status	Deprecated. The Life Sciences feature can be hidden by disabling the Life Sciences Supply Chain Management > Approved customers configuration key. Contact us if you need support with data migration. The feature may be removed starting from March 2027.

Feature: "Quality order validation" electronic signature requirement

Module	Life Sciences Quality Control & Assurance
Reason for deprecation/removal	Replaced by Microsoft "Electronic signature improvements" feature
Replaced by another feature?	Yes
Product areas affected	Supply Chain Management – Quality Management
Status	Deprecated. When the Microsoft "Electronic signature improvements" feature is enabled, the STAEDEAN "Quality order validation" electronic signature requirement is hidden. The feature may be removed starting from March 2027.

Feature: Customer-specific setup

Module	Life Sciences Quality Control & Assurance
Reason for deprecation/removal	Replaced by Microsoft "Advanced Quality Management" feature
Replaced by another feature?	Yes
Product areas affected	Supply Chain Management – Quality Management
Status	Deprecated. When the Microsoft "Advanced Quality Management" feature is enabled, the STAEDEAN Customer-specific setup button will be unavailable. The feature may be removed starting from March 2027.

Feature: Copy test group

Module	Life Sciences Quality Control & Assurance
Reason for deprecation/removal	Replaced by Microsoft "Advanced Quality Management" feature
Replaced by another feature?	Yes
Product areas affected	Supply Chain Management – Quality Management
Status	Deprecated. When the Microsoft "Advanced Quality Management" feature is enabled, the STAEDEAN Copy test group button will be unavailable. The feature may be removed starting from March 2027.

Feature: SSRS Certificate of Analysis report

Module	Life Sciences Quality Control & Assurance
Reason for deprecation/removal	Replaced by the CoA Electronic Report
Replaced by another feature?	Yes
Product areas affected	Supply Chain Management – Quality Management
Status	Deprecated. The feature may be removed starting from March 2027.

Release 10.0.46.39 (January 2026)

Feature: File drop location for label printing

Module	Life Sciences Supply Chain Management
Reason for deprecation/removal	The file drop location information in D365 F&SCM is obsolete since Label Printing is now managed via Logic App (refer to the STAEDEAN Life Sciences Installation Guide for additional details).
Replaced by another feature?	Yes
Product areas affected	Label Printing
Status	Deprecated. The related code can be removed anytime, starting from January 2027.

Release 10.0.45.35 (September 2025)

Feature: Security compliance

Module	Life Sciences Supply Chain Management
Reason for deprecation/removal	This feature has been added to the Security and Compliance Studio (SCS) product.
Replaced by another feature?	Yes
Product areas affected	Security and compliance
Status	Deprecated. The feature will be turned off in STAEDEAN Life Sciences by January 2026, retaining the possibility to enable it. The feature may be removed starting from June 2026. It is recommended to move data to the SCS feature - a job to automate this process is planned to be available in January 2026.

Feature: Old layout for mobile device registration lines (Registration lines screen on a mobile device)

Module	Life Sciences Warehouse Management
Reason for deprecation/removal	Replaced by a new and advanced layout, which can be activated by enabling the Use advanced registration layout parameter in the mobile device menu item.
Replaced by another feature?	Yes
Product areas affected	Supply Chain Management - Warehouse management
Status	Deprecated. Starting from 2025-Q3 release, the new layout is the default one, but it is still possible to switch to the old one. The old layout may be removed starting from June 2026.

Feature: Old layout for mobile device label reprint (Product label reprinting via mobile device)

Module	Life Sciences Warehouse Management
Reason for deprecation/removal	Replaced by a new and advanced layout, which can be activated by enabling the Use advanced layout parameter in the mobile device menu item.
Replaced by another feature?	Yes
Product areas affected	Supply Chain Management - Warehouse management
Status	Deprecated. Starting from 2025-Q3 release, the new layout is the default one, but it is still possible to switch to the old one. The old layout may be removed starting from June 2026.

Release 10.20.14.30 (June 2025)

Feature: Deployable package delivery via lsdocs.staedean.com website

Module	-
Reason for deprecation/removal	SDN is aligning the deployable package delivery process across the different products. Therefore, the STAEDEAN Life Sciences deployable package will be available to all partners and customers via Lifecycle Services (LCS).
Replaced by another feature?	Yes
Product areas affected	N.A.
Status	Deprecated. Until the 2025-Q4 release, it will still be possible to download the package via the STAEDEAN Life Sciences docs website as well. Starting from January 2026, the package will be only available through LCS.

Releases before 2025

Feature: Multilevel supply profile report

Module	Life Sciences Supply Chain Management
Reason for deprecation/removal	The Multilevel supply profile report will be deprecated in September 2025. The report is used to print the lot genealogy based on the Item tracing functionality. Since the September 2024 release of STAEDEAN Life Sciences, the lot genealogy can be printed using the new Item tracing report, that provides better performance and higher readability.
Replaced by another feature?	Yes
Product areas affected	Supply Chain Management - Inventory management
Status	Deprecated. This feature will no longer be supported from September 2025.

Feature: Grid layout of the Advanced mobile device inquiries

Module	Life Sciences Warehouse Management
Reason for deprecation/removal	Paging in the Warehouse Management app is not supported by Microsoft. Please enable the Use advanced inquiry layout parameter in the related Mobile device menu items to use an advanced layout, which is aligned with Microsoft screens.
Replaced by another feature?	Yes
Product areas affected	Supply Chain Management - Warehouse management
Status	Deprecated. This feature will no longer be supported and can be removed starting from March 2025.

Feature: Advanced mobile device security via DLL

Module	Life Sciences Warehouse Management
Reason for deprecation/removal	Using Microsoft DLL methods made the feature unstable and not properly working on new versions. Please enable the Advanced mobile device security V2 parameter in the Warehouse management parameters form, Mobile device security tab, to use REST API call instead.
Replaced by another feature?	Yes
Product areas affected	Supply Chain Management - Warehouse management
Status	Deprecated. This feature will no longer be supported and can be removed starting from March 2025.

Feature: Item model group check methods

Module	Life Sciences Supply Chain Management
Reason for deprecation/removal	To avoid managing multiple item model groups during customer mappings and keep it more finance and quality related, all the STAEDEAN Life Sciences check methods are grouped in the new Item check group form (Inventory management > Setup > Inventory > Item check group), and they will be removed from the Item model group form: Approved manufacturer check method Default use code Approved customer check method Container configuration check method Approved use code check method Approved storage condition check method Approved storage attribute check method
Replaced by another feature?	Yes
Product areas affected	Supply Chain Management – Product information management, Quality management
Status	Deprecated. This feature will no longer be supported and can be removed starting from March 2025. The new Item check group form is already available from Life Sciences release 2023.04.

Feature: Restrictions on physical movements by batch disposition code

Module	Life Sciences Supply Chain Management
Reason for deprecation/removal	The following objects will be deprecated: Controlled inventory movements method field in the Item model group form Controlled inventory movements FastTab in the Warehouses form This feature has been replaced by the Controlled movement matrix feature.
Replaced by another feature?	Yes
Product areas affected	Supply Chain Management - Warehouse management
Status	Deprecated. This feature will no longer be supported and can be removed starting from March 2025.

Feature: Quality lead times in planning (Basic quality planning)

Module	Life Sciences Supply Chain Management
Reason for deprecation/removal	The Quality lead times in planning functionality modifies the built-in master planning engine in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Supply Chain Management Supply Chain Management. Microsoft deprecated the built-in engine in favour of the non-customizable Planning optimization service. The Quality lead times in planning functionality won't be supported by the Planning optimization service.
Replaced by another feature?	No
Product areas affected	Supply Chain Management – Master planning
Status	Deprecated. The Quality lead times in planning feature will still work with the built-in master planning engine. The feature won't work with the Planning optimization service. The Purchase order quality lead time and Batch order quality lead time fields in the item's Default order settings will not be considered by the Planning optimization service.

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