Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations/AX User Group

Back in platform update 16 in March 2018, we introduced a new metadata validation based on observed issues. We had found some customers (and also Microsoft code) had field groups that referred to fiel...( read more )

This short post is for you hardcore X++ developers that create magic everyday. D365 have the following method, that allows you to validate if any fields on a record have been changed. If it returns true , then something has changed, and if false , then nothing has been changed. There are scenario’s...

What is the Solution Architect Bootcamp? Apparently, I missed the memo on these Solution Architect Bootcamps put on by the Fast Track Solution Architects at Microsoft.  Since rolling out the most recent version of their program to help customers “implement high quality solution faster”, “go live with confidence” and “stay connected to the product”, Microsoft has been training Partners on how to best interact with the…

When I read Evaldas Landauskas’s blog post Development guidelines: Prefix Vs. Suffix , I thought I would write a comment below the post and share a few ideas, but then I decided that it’d be better to write my own blog post. Here I have a much better control over formatting and the content will...

The product that used to be called Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations (I truly don’t know how I should call it these days) allows defining security elements both by developers (delivered together with code) and by power users though GUI (stored in database). You may have a need to work...

Dynamics 365 can be automated quite a lot with the use of batch jobs. With batch jobs, your Dynamics 365 solution becomes “alive”, and we can set up the system to automate many manually processes. Lets say to have the following “vanilla process”, and wants to automate as many...

D365 & Visual studio gives you the ability to create your own Visual studio Add In for D365 development. The idea for me to create the add-in was to reduce the number of keystrokes and especially moving forward and backwards between the AOT and the code editor. There are quite a few “enhancements” i...

Retailers experienced more change in the last decade than nearly any other industry, a trend that is not likely to slow as we enter 2020. The only certainty in the new decade is the need for technologies that help retailers stay nimble, relevant, and anticipate customer needs and shopping preferences. As my colleague Shelley Bransten, Corporate Vice President, Retail and Consumer Goods Industries, shared in a blog post…

Microsoft is now adding translated label files to the deployed developer boxes, which is supposed to make is possible to search for labels in other languages than en-us. I'm not sure if this is done for all models though. If the search doesn't work, the likely cause is that Microsoft didn't add the...

In this post I will share some code on how to embed a Chat bot into the Help pane in #MSDyn365FO. My full code is available on GitHub . Do share any feedback. I won’t go into detail on how to develop the Chat bot as there are a number of ways to do it. Options available in the Microsoft world are: Power Virtual Agent , QnA Maker bot Azure Bot Service bot The point is you might want to surface that bot in FinOps to help…