Ali Raza Zaidi

A practitioner’s musings on Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations

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The requested Performance Counter is not a custom counter, it has to be initialized as ReadOnly. D365

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On new vm, I found following error, when ever, i try to create a new PR or purchase order.

Following script helped me

$AOSDirectory = ‘c:\AOSService\PackagesLocalDirectory’
$AOSBinDirectory = $AOSDirectory + ‘\bin’

[Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFrom(“$AOSBinDirectory\Microsoft.Diagnostics.Tracing.EventSource.dll”)

$sharedDLL = ‘Microsoft.Dynamics.AX.Xpp.AxShared.dll’
$subledgerDLL = ‘Microsoft.Dynamics.Subledger.Instrumentation.dll’
$taxDLL = ‘Microsoft.Dynamics.Tax.Instrumentation.dll’
$prodCfgDLL = ‘Microsoft.Dynamics.ProductConfiguration.Instrumentation.dll’
$sourceDocDLL = ‘Microsoft.Dynamics.SourceDocumentation.Instrumentation.dll’

Copy-Item $(Join-Path $AOSDirectory -ChildPath “Subledger\bin” | Join-Path -ChildPath $subledgerDLL) -Destination $AOSBinDirectory
[Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFrom($(Join-Path $AOSBinDirectory -ChildPath $subledgerDLL))
[Microsoft.Dynamics.Subledger.Instrumentation.PerformanceCounterCatalog]::Setup()

Copy-Item $(Join-Path $AOSDirectory -ChildPath “Tax\bin” | Join-Path -ChildPath $taxDLL) -Destination $AOSBinDirectory
[Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFrom($(Join-Path $AOSBinDirectory -ChildPath $taxDLL))
[Microsoft.Dynamics.Tax.Instrumentation.PerformanceCounterCatalog]::Setup()

Copy-Item $(Join-Path $AOSDirectory -ChildPath “SourceDocumentation\bin” | Join-Path -ChildPath $sourceDocDLL) -Destination $AOSBinDirectory
[Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFrom($(Join-Path $AOSBinDirectory -ChildPath $sourceDocDLL))
[Microsoft.Dynamics.SourceDocumentation.Instrumentation.PerformanceCounterCatalog]::Setup()

Copy-Item $(Join-Path $AOSDirectory -ChildPath “ApplicationSuite\bin” | Join-Path -ChildPath $prodCfgDLL) -Destination $AOSBinDirectory
[Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFrom($(Join-Path $AOSBinDirectory -ChildPath $prodCfgDLL))
[Microsoft.Dynamics.ProductConfiguration.Instrumentation.PerformanceCounterCatalog]::Setup()

[Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFrom($(Join-Path $AOSBinDirectory -ChildPath $sharedDLL))
[Microsoft.Dynamics.Ax.Xpp.AxShared.AxPerformanceCounters]::InitializePerformanceCounterCategories()

Refrence : https://blog.monsieurwinner.com/2025/11/20/d365-finance-and-operations-the-requested-performance-counter-is-not-a-custom-counter-it-has-to-be-initialized-as-readonly/

Error importing database Could not load package from .bacpac. File contains corrupted data.

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So importing the latest backup on Dev machine, I found this error
It is very strange, because I installed from

And when I run the setup from this link Error appear.

Error importing database:Could not load package from ‘C:\temp-UATbackup.bacpac’.
File contains corrupted data.

Instead to download and install DacFramework.
Download and install latest .net version and extract it to your required folder

Download and Install SqlPackage – SQL Server | Microsoft Learn

From there, instead of using the Sqlpackage.exe under C:\Program Files (x86), please use the Sqlpackage.exe in C:\Temp\Sqlpackage-dotnetBoomb

Your import query will look like below

C:\Temp>SqlPackage.exe /a:import /sf:D:\Temp\UTup.bacpac /tsn:localhost /tdn:AxDB_fromProd1 /p:CommandTimeout=0

Error Log level – Error | Infolog diagnostic message: ‘Cannot create a record in Entity (DMFEntity) – D365 Finance and operations

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During development, I initially used the arbitrary name for the custom data entity. Later, during the review session, I updated the Label property of the data entity to align with proper naming conventions.

🔍 Best practice: Always use the label for the data entity display name, not hardcoded strings.

Since this was a small customization, I had directly written string values in some places, bypassing the label. However, when I triggered database synchronization, I encountered the following error:

❌ Error Message:

Error Log level - Error | Infolog diagnostic message:
'Cannot create a record in Entity (DMFEntity). 
Entity: ProductCreationValidationEntityV2, DSTProductCreationValidationStaging.'

🧪 Root Cause:

Upon investigation, I found that the DMFEntity table contained multiple entries with conflicting labels for the same data entity names. This typically occurs when:

  • You change the label or name of a data entity without cleaning up old records
  • The model or metadata has inconsistencies after refactoring

✅ Solution:

You need to identify and delete the duplicate or orphaned records from the DMFEntity table.

🔍 Sample Queries:

Run the following queries in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) against your AXDB database:

-- View existing records for the custom entities
SELECT * FROM DMFENTITY WHERE ENTITYNAME = 'ProductCreationValidationEntityV2';
SELECT * FROM DMFENTITY WHERE ENTITYNAME = 'ProductCreationValidationEntityV2Lines';
SELECT * FROM DMFENTITY WHERE ENTITYNAME = 'DSTProductCreationValidationEntity';

-- Delete the orphan/conflicting records
DELETE FROM DMFENTITY WHERE ENTITYNAME = 'ProductCreationValidationEntityV2';
DELETE FROM DMFENTITY WHERE ENTITYNAME = 'ProductCreationValidationEntityV2Lines';
DELETE FROM DMFENTITY WHERE ENTITYNAME = 'DSTProductCreationValidationEntity';

⚠️ Warning: Always take a database backup before running any DELETE operation.

🧰 Next Steps:

  • Perform a full build of your model
  • Run database synchronization again
  • Re-deploy the data entities, if required

Sales price and discount is not added to sales line X++

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I encountered this issue and, during troubleshooting, I discovered that the system performs an update on the sales line to retrieve sales prices and discounts. This process has a performance impact. In fact, the prices are copied from the trade agreement in Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations

For manual price use following code snippet

 salesLine.initFromInventTable(InventTable::find(salesLine.ItemId));
 salesLine.InventDimId = inventDim.inventDimId;
                        
                        
 salesLine.SalesQty = listObject.parmSalesQty();
 salesLine.SalesPrice = listObject.parmOriginalPrice();


 salesLine.SalesUnit = _InventItemBarcode.UnitID;
 salesLine.PriceUnit = 1.00;

 if ( (listObject.parmOriginalPrice() >= listObject.parmOfferPrice()) && !(listObject.parmOfferPrice() <0) && !(listObject.parmOriginalPrice() <=0))
 {
     if (listObject.parmOfferPrice()!=0)
     {
         real _Discount =listObject.parmOriginalPrice() -listObject.parmOfferPrice();
         salesLine.LineDisc = _Discount;
     }
     else
     {

         salesLine.LineDisc = 0;
     }
 }
 salesLine.DefaultDimension =LedgerDimensionDefaultFacade::serviceMergeDefaultDimensions(salesTable.DefaultDimension,InventTable::find(salesLine.ItemId).DefaultDimension);
 salesLine.setPriceDiscChangePolicy(PriceDiscSystemSource::ManualEntry, fieldNum(salesLine, SalesPrice));
 salesLine.setPriceDiscChangePolicy(PriceDiscSystemSource::ManualEntry, fieldNum(salesLine, LineDisc));
// salesLine.setPriceDiscChangePolicy(PriceDiscSystemSource::ManualEntry, fieldNum(salesLine, LinePercent));
 salesLine.setPriceDiscChangePolicy(PriceDiscSystemSource::ManualEntry, fieldNum(salesLine, PriceUnit));


 Try
 {
     ttsbegin;
     salesLine.CreateLine(NoYes::Yes,NoYes::Yes);
ttscommit;
}
catch
{}

Json deserialize issue in service class An exception occured when invoking the operation – Type ‘Class’ is not supported by serializer. D365 Finance and operations

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Yesterday, I was working on integration, and everything was going fine. However, when I tried to retrieve a string from the DataContract, it threw an error: “Type ‘Class’ is not supported by the serializer.” The issue persisted even when I used Newtonsoft. The rest of the logic was functioning correctly.

Eventually, I discovered that the issue was due to missing AX 2012 attributes on the list’s getter/setter or parameter. Once I added those attributes, the actual getter/setter started working as expected.

 [
    DataMemberAttribute('transactions'),  
    DataCollectionAttribute(Types::Class, classStr(DSTTransactionDC))  
  ]  
  public List Parmtransactions(List _transactions = transactions)  
  {  
    transactions = _transactions;  
return transactions;
  }

I have to add following 

  AifCollectionTypeAttribute('_transactions', Types::Class, classStr(DSTTransactionDC)),
  AifCollectionTypeAttribute('return', Types::Class, classStr(DSTTransactionDC))

After that getter setter become something similar

 [
    DataMemberAttribute('transactions'),  
    DataCollectionAttribute(Types::Class, classStr(DSTTransactionDC)),  
    AifCollectionTypeAttribute('_transactions', Types::Class, classStr(DSTTransactionDC)),  
    AifCollectionTypeAttribute('return', Types::Class, classStr(DSTTransactionDC))  
  ]  
  public List Parmtransactions(List _transactions = transactions)  
  {  
    transactions = _transactions;  
 return transactions;
  }

after this change, datacontract easily serialise. 
Also change attribute at class header from datacontracattribute to dataContract.

Hope you like this post.

How to fetch un-Invoiced Delivery notes for sales order – D365 Finance and Operations

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So here is another code snippet, that I develop after two hours of testing and understanding the D365 F&O that get all non invoiced , delivery notes or packingslip. I want to restrict the code to invoice against Delivery note, If no non posted delivery note exists, Code will not generate the invoice.

 public static str getUninvoicedPackingSlipsBySalesId(SalesId _salesId)
 {
     CustPackingSlipJour custPackingSlipJour;    // Packing slip journal
     InventTrans         inventTrans;            // Inventory transaction

     str packingSlipIds = "";
     container distinctPackingSlips;             // Container to store unique Packing Slip IDs
     int i = 0;

     // Fetch only un-invoiced Packing Slips based on Sales ID
     while select inventTrans
     where inventTrans.InvoiceId == ""
     
     join custPackingSlipJour
     where custPackingSlipJour.PackingSlipId == inventTrans.PackingSlipId
       && custPackingSlipJour.SalesId == _salesId
     {
         // Check if the Packing Slip ID is already in the container
         if (conFind(distinctPackingSlips, custPackingSlipJour.PackingSlipId) == 0)
         {
             distinctPackingSlips += custPackingSlipJour.PackingSlipId;  // Add to container if unique
                          
         }
     }

     return con2Str(distinctPackingSlips);  // Return the comma-separated string or empty if none found
 }

How to convert utcdate time to ISO 8601 Formats D365 Finance and Operations

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Hi friends, recently I got chance to write a code to convert Utc date time to iso 8601. I wrote following code snippet you can modify as per your need

public static str GetEPochTime(utcdatetime _DateTimeValue)
{
    utcDateTime utcDateTimeValue;
    str formattedDateTime;
  
    date datepart;
    int milliseconds;
    TimeOfDay _time;
    // _DateTimeValue = DateTimeUtil::applyTimeZoneOffset(_DateTimeValue, Timezone::GMTPLUS0300KUWAIT_RIYADH); // Adjust for specific timezone if needed
    int _year= DateTimeUtil::year(_DateTimeValue);
    int _day = DateTimeUtil::day(_DateTimeValue);
    int _Month = DateTimeUtil::month(_DateTimeValue);
    int _Hour = DateTimeUtil::hour(_DateTimeValue);
    int _second = DateTimeUtil::second(_DateTimeValue);
    int _minute = DateTimeUtil::minute(_DateTimeValue);
    int _timetomilliSecond = 0;
    var localTime =  new System.DateTime(_year, _Month, _day, _Hour, _minute, _second,_timetomilliSecond, System.DateTimeKind::Utc);
    localTime =System.TimeZoneInfo::ConvertTime(localTime,System.TimeZoneInfo::FindSystemTimeZoneById("Arabic Standard Time"));
    // Example UTC DateTime
    // utcDateTimeValue = _DateTimeValue;
    formattedDateTime = localTime.ToString("o");
    // formattedDateTime =DateTimeUtil::toStr(_DateTimeValue);
    formattedDateTime =strReplace(formattedDateTime,".0000000",".00+03:00");
    return formattedDateTime;

Sales order cancellation validation through event handler X++

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Hi friends, small tip, I got chancel to add validation in Cancel functionality of D365 Finance and operations.Interestingly the menu button called the class. So I have to write the pre event handler for main method.

Following is the [[Code Snippet]]

public static void SalesCancelOrder_Pre_main(XppPrePostArgs _args)
    {
     

        Args args =_args.getArg("args");
        SalesTable salesTable = args.record();
        CustmTable _Response;

        select * from _Response where _Response.PrimaryKey == salesTable.SalesId && _Response.TransType == CustmTransType::SalesOrder;
         
        if (_Response.RecId !=0)
        {
           // validateEventArgs.parmValidateResult(false);
           Error("This sales order is integrationed with wms, Cancellation is not recommended, use the cancellation dailog for Cancel in wms.");
            if (Box::yesNo("Sales order is integrated with WMS, Do you really want to cancel it.", DialogButton::No) == DialogButton::No)
            {
                throw Exception::Error;
            }
        }

       
    }

Write Extensible Data Security (XDS) in Dynamics 365 Finance and Operation

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In D365, with Role based security we can restrict specific operations
to Certain user. Role based security will restrict the menu, forms and report.
It did not restrict certain records to view.

For example, They want to see only vendor with certain vendor group.
Customer for certain key market.
For this blog post, there is scenario that end user can be his created sales order.
For this requirement, we can use [[Extensible Data Security (XSD)]].

For this we require three elements.

AOT query.
Security Policy
And last one is Security Role.

First we create AOT Query and add Sales table and inner join with userInfo Table and make join with userInfo.Id with SalesTable.CreatedBy

Then add range in UserInfo and add (CurrentUserId())

Now Create a new role. That will used in Security policy and later used for End user.

Now add a new Security policy

and set following properties.

Set following properties.

Constraint Table Yes
Context Type RoleName

Operations All Operations

Primary Table set as SalesTable

Query set the name of Query

Set Role Name with Role we created in above role.

Build and Sync Database.

Open D365 Finance and Operations goes and Userinfo in System Administrator and assign to specific end user.
Remember, that either assign, Sales Clerk role or Sales Manager role.
Extensible Data Security (XDS) is not working for system administrator role.

Sales order list will comes with sales order with filter.

How write a simple dialog for input In D365 Finance and Operations X++

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What a difference between RunBase and RunBaseBatch.

RunBase is used to create dialog. While runBaseBatch can be used to set dialog box as batch job.

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Today I have a simple tip. that help you to create a input box to get values. this class will create a dialog box. You can use this to replace your runable class logic.


class RequestCopyJob extends RunBase
{
DialogField fieldInvoice;
DialogField fieldName;

// Variables to store user input

CustomerInvoiceId _InvoiceId;

// pack() and unpack() methods are used to load the last value from user
// for our simple example we are not going to use them.
public container pack()
{
return conNull();
}

public boolean unpack(container packedClass)
{
return true;
}

public Object dialog()
{
Dialog dialog = super();

// Set a title for dialog
dialog.caption( ‘Simple Dialog’);

// Add a new field to Dialog
fieldInvoice = dialog.addField(extendedTypeStr(DSACustomerInvoiceId), ‘Invoice’);

return dialog;
}

public boolean getFromDialog()
{
_InvoiceId = fieldInvoice.value();
return super();
}

public void run()
{
// Set Dialog field value to find CustTable

EInvoiceServiceRequests _EInvoiceServiceRequest;

select forupdate * from _EInvoiceServiceRequest where _EInvoiceServiceRequest.CustomerInvoiceId ==_InvoiceId;
ttsbegin;
_EInvoiceServiceRequest.ResponseStatus = ServiceStatus::SUCCESS;
_EInvoiceServiceRequest.update();
ttscommit;

}

public static void main(Args _args)
{
RequestCopyJob Job = new RequestCopyJob();
// Prompt the dialog, if user clicks in OK it returns true
if (Job.prompt())
{
Job.run();
}
}

}