Ali Raza Zaidi

A practitioner’s musings on Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations

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Json Service Call in Dynamics Ax 2012.

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Recently I got chance to call restful Json based service in Dynamics Ax 2012.

I used a C# class library and then add to AOT.  AX 2012

Json based service successfully called both client side and server side. Only tricky part was to make Json string or payload.

I used to make Json string something similar. Both works in C# as well as X++

 

 

payload += “{\”ApproversEmpCode\”:\””+ employeeCode +”\”,”;

payload += “\”message\”:\””+table.Message +” “+ strReplace(Message,”\'”,”`”)+”\”,”;

payload +=  “\”requestType\”:\”” +tableId2Name(TableId) +”\”,”;

payload += “\”transactionId\”:\””+int642str(RecId)+”\”}”;

 

 

Happy Daxing.

Drill through SSRS – Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations

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Helped a junior, build a small SSRS expression, who build hyperlink to Course page on SSRS. You can modify it with respect your need.

 

=Microsoft.Dynamics.Framework.Reports.BuiltInMethods.GenerateDrillThroughLink( Parameters!AX_ReportContext.Value, Parameters!AX_UserContext.Value, “HRMCourseTable”, “Display”, “HRMCourseTable”, “hrmCourseId”, Fields!hrmCourseId.Value)

Where to download D365 for finance and Operations VM

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Hi all, connect link is now part of past. VHD link on  collaboration  site did not work.  You can down it from lcs.

For this you have subscription on LCS.Dynamics.com for D365 for Finance and operations.

 

After successful, login you will find Shared Asset in boxes section.

 

 

At the time of writing this small tip, Dynamics 365 for Finance and operations 8.0  platform Update 15 is just released

Disable Editing Options for BOM, D365 for Finance and Operations

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On the Business requirement, We can stop editing functionality for Approved BOM Item.

For This you have to  visit

 

Inventory Management and warehouse management Parameter form.

 

 

And Enable following options boxes. In Bills of materials  Block removal of approval and Block Editing.

Free Webinar on Microsoft ERP (Dynamics 365 for Finance and operations) in Urdu

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Hi all, We are conducting a one hour session with one of my fellow form System limited Karachi.

Currently we will conduct this session in local language in Urdu.

The knowledge and Experience we share this session certainly gain from implementation and Customization Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations from System limited platform.

 

Presenter profile:

 

Ali Raza Zaidi: Dynamics 365 for finance and operations Consultant, Microsoft MVP and Microsoft Certified trainer.

Working for Systems limited Pakistan.

 

Hasan Akhtar Khan :  Technical Consultant.  Round 4 years Technical Side experience for Customization, integration and SSRS report development for Dynamics Ax 2012 and Dynamics 365 for finance and operations.

 

Agenda:

 

  • What is ERP.
  • Why we need ERP while having custom solution.
  • What is Microsoft Solution ( Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations).
  • On premises VS Cloud Based
  • List of Modules In Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations.
  • Navigation, menus and Workspace.
  • Workflow as Business Process
  • Very Precise introduction to Procurement process In D365 for Finance and Operations
  • Very Precise Introduction to Sale Order Processing In D365 for Finance and Operations.

 

 

  • Layered Architecture
  • Development with Extensions VS Overlays.
  • Reporting Overview
  • SSRS Report development Architecture.
  • TFS and Code versioning.

Question Answer Session

 

 

Join Us at below Skype for business link at 31 March Evening 6 to 7 Pm

 

https://meet.lync.com/alirazazaidi/alirazazaidi/1FV4EFDH

Parameter _reportName cannot be null or empty. Dynamics Ax 2012 R3

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Hi, All, After Incremental CIL,  errors started to appear on controller classes. These are all those classes where report Name is mentioned in code. Error message in compilation as below.

Parameter _reportName cannot be null or empty.

When we compiled respected class, This error move to next controller class. After compiling number of classes. Finally We decided to compile the all classes by right click on Classes node of AOT.

Compilation of all classes in AX resolved the issue.

 

Purchase order Preparation Workspace In D365 for finance and operations

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Dynamics 365 for Finance and operations has amazing feature of Workspaces. Workspace contains all possible option related to one task. For example if we  explore  “Purchase Order Preparation” Workspace in “Procurement and sourcing” module. You find all options related to Purchase order.

 

Here workspaces divided into three section. Summary section, tabbed detail section and related link. If you access workspaces on Cloud. Certainly you will find here power BI section. With different Bars and Charts. I using Dynamics 365 for finance and operations on dev box on my laptop. So this feature is not enabled

 

 

 

 

 

If we see Summary section.  It will leads us to New purchase order screen, All Purchase Orders, And some other status, that  orders without Confirm Delivery Date. Approved and review or external review.

 

If we click any one of Summary boxes, these leads us to list pages. For example I clicked on in review box.  This will leads to list page and detail of in review records are shown there.

 

If we click on All purchase orders, this leads us to list page, for example If I click on in review purchase orders. This will leads us to page these two in review records are showing.

 

 

 

If We can see Workspace in detail, we found some tab, which shows the similar details. It is powerful and light weight feature. There are multiple grids and it load data in a few seconds.

 

 

Here I found two workflow related tabs . For example purchase order assigned to current user can be shown in “Assign to me” screen.

 

 

 

 

This workspace concept is amazing,  It contains Inquiries , and list page on single list. For example you can search Purchase order in drop down.

 

 

And Search result is here.

Notes about Labels D365 for Finance and operations.

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Suppose we are doing customization or new development from scratch. We need labels for our control, forms, fields for display caption or titles.

 

So first step is to create it by adding new item in Visual studio.

 

 

 

Name it as required,

 

 

Select language. I select the English “US”

 

Make it finish

 

As a result new  label file is created in visual studio solution

 

 

Click on file and add values through editors.

 

Labels created here can be search at control, field, EDT and Enum can be searched and used

 

 

 

 

After creating labels file in project you find button in labels.

 

Search and selected required label

It is not recommend to create a new label for every field instead search and use label. For example for “Description” search and use existing one.

 

Something similar appear when I searched “Description”.

It shows all possible labels

 

 

You can add labels in label file using text editor.  For example I write AL0005 in text editor.

 

On saving, On opening label editor I found something similar.