Ali Raza Zaidi

A practitioner’s musings on Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations

Tips and tricks

How to get calling menu name in extensions Dynamics 365 for finance and operations

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Today is small tip, Many times, we have to took decision based on the name of menu  on which form is called. By getting menu name we can use same form for different purposes.  We can write logic based on current form called from which menu item.

Following is the code snippet helps you to achieve this.

[FormEventHandler(formStr(LogisticsContactInfoGrid), FormEventType::Initialized)]
    public static void LogisticsContactInfoGrid_OnInitialized(xFormRun sender, FormEventArgs e)
    {
        FormRun formRun = sender;
        
        if (formRun.args().menuItemName() == "CustomerLogisticsContactInfoGrid")
        {
            FormDataSource      LogisticsElectronicAddress_ds =formRun.dataSource("LogisticsElectronicAddress");
            LogisticsElectronicAddress_ds.InsertIfEmpty(true);
            LogisticsElectronicAddress_ds.object(fieldNum(LogisticsElectronicAddress, Locator)).mandatory(true);
        }

application cannot be started. Contact the application vendor – Workflow Dynamics 365 for finance and operations

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Hi all, today, while opening Workflow designer, I found following error

application cannot be started. Contact the application vendor

For this I have to clear the cache with following statement, in Command prompt

rundll32 dfshim CleanOnlineAppCache

If still problem remains, install click Once extension in Chrome.

Other wise use dynamics in Microsoft Edge. I tried on Microsoft Edge. It works perfectly fine.

Happy Daxing.

Error CREATE UNIQUE INDEX ON DBO.PROJHIERARCHYSORTING Dynamics 365 for finance and Operations

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I faced this problem while restoring staging database from 8.0 to latest version.
Microsoft did not provide any solution to extended index. You can add new indexes on table extension, but did remove or modified on existing indexes.
Severity    Code    Description    Project    File    Line    Suppression State
Error        CREATE UNIQUE INDEX I_17901NODEREFERENCE ON DBO.PROJHIERARCHYSORTING(PARTITION,DATAAREAID,TYPE,REFID,REFNODEID); —> System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: The CREATE UNIQUE INDEX statement terminated because a duplicate key was found for the object name ‘dbo.PROJHIERARCHYSORTING’ and the index name ‘I_17901NODEREFERENCE’. The duplicate key value is (5637144576, atd, 0, , 0).            0
One solution I found that DBO.PROJHIERARCHYSORTING is have some kind of sorting data, And When we open Work Break down structure
this table is auto populate some kind of internal usage for sorting.
So I truncate the DBO.PROJHIERARCHYSORTING table and as result Database Synchronization successfully completed.
And opening WBS of existing table, I found data at SQL server level.
Happy DAXING.
There is no solution to extend table index on table.  So only solution to truncate the table.

Change Text/BackGround Color Based Off Cell Value in Grid Dynamics 365 for finance and operations

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Hi all, today I got opportunity to change color of Grid Cell based on some condition.
I achieved this by following code snippet.
First all I set Auto declaration to true of  required control in grid,
Second I add overwrite displayOption of grid data source.
This code snippet is interesting. It triggers for every row on grid.
And if you see below code snippet method signature shows the Common _Record. With this common _record, we can get current row of data source. And this we can apply some condition
Suppose we what to customer Name background to red who has credit limit is less then 1000  Following works
  public void displayOption(Common _record, FormRowDisplayOption _options)
        {
            CustTable custTable = _record as CustTable;
            if ( custTable.CreditLimit  < 1000)
            {
                _options.affectedElementsByControl(CustName.id());
                _options.backColor(WinApi::RGB2int(255,0,0));
                _options.textColor(WinApi::RGB2int(255,255,255));
            }
            super(_record, _options);
        }
Happy DAXing.
No more MVP

How to populate form data source with temp table. Dynamics 365 for finance and operations

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Hi, There are many scenario, when we do calculation and bind it with Grid in dynamics 365 for finance and operations.

For these scenario, we populate temp table at run time and bind it to form data source.

We wrote code init() initialization method of data source to bind temp table to populate.

I used following code snippet for data populate temp table based data source.

public void init() // init method of form data source.
{
Temptable temptable;
super();
tempTable.Field1= “Baba Zaidi”;
tempTable.insert();
tempTable.Field1= “Dynamics 365 Corner “;
tempTable.insert();
TempDBExampleTable.linkPhysicalTableInstance(tempTable);
}

Happy Daxing.

Small tip, but I learn it today, Again Document not create.

The batch task you entered is not valid. Enter a different batch task. Dynamics 365 for finance and operations

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During development, I got this error, when try to type newly created class that need to be run in batch processing.

That class I manually type because it was not appear in a list new task form inside batch job.

Later I found that I did not implement the canGoBatchJournal() method of RunBaseBatch

After adding following code snippet in my class, it will start to show in batch job task list.

 

 

The internal time zone version number stored in the database Dynamics 365 for finance and operations

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I  faced database Synch Error after deploying latest code to my Onebox VM.

 

The internal time zone version number stored in the database is higher than the version supported by the kernel (15/13). Use a newer Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations kernel

 

 

Solution is

Open local Database in SQL server management Studio

And run following Query on AXDB.

 

update SQLSystemVariables set VALUE = 7 where parm =’SYSTIMEZONESVERSION’

 

 

Reference:  http://dilliraj.blogspot.com/2016/07/the-internal-time-zone-version-number.html