Being a developer I have to explore how a new feature or a framework has been developed and how can this be extended when needed. While working on dual-write implementation I came across many technical difficulties as the framework was not mature enough at that time since the dual-write is only generally...

If you happen to face this error message "Copying pre-existing data completed with error, For additional details, go to initial sync details tab" while starting the dual-write entity map then please check you have setup the cross company data sharing policy for the underline table of the entity...

If you happen to stuck with any issue with the Dual-write implementation from on how and where to start with dual-write - The source of truth is a yammer group https://www.yammer.com/dynamicsaxfeedbackprograms/#/threads/inGroup?type=in_group&feedId=16038053 runs by Microsoft Dual-write product team...

As you might already know if you read our post from August, 2020 , the hash function for the dimension framework in Dynamics 365 Finance 2020 release wave 2 has changed. After you update to version 10...( read more )

Time Stamp Chapter Title Blog Post 00:04 What Are You Good At? (Intro) 02:15 Title, Welcome, and My Superpower 04:22 Moving From Excel to Power BI 09:14 Data Modeling Table Relationships 14:33 Data Modeling Example Table Relationships 16:46 Separate Data Models and Reports Separate Data Models and Reports 20:2...

Excited to share that the recording of my session on "The Power Of Dual Write" is now available. Please watch and share your feedback. Please feel free to ask questions - this way we all can learn more!!

DynamicsCon sessions are running Wednesday and Thursday this week. Joining live provides the opportunity to watch the presentation while participating in real-time Q&A. https://dynamicscon.com/agenda/

If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress. Barack Obama “Eventually” My good friend Barack Obama used to remind me often how progress is best viewed over a longer time frame. Lately I’ve had so many “Why isn’t ...

In the recent updates of Dual Write, Microsoft released a pricing and inventory on hand integration in CE. Real time pricing calculation and inventory on hand as per FinOps business logic. In this post, I wanted to cover how it seems to magically work. As you know by now, Dual Write uses a push architecture. Where either FinOps pushes to CE or CE pushes to FinOps. Both call a web service on the other side to sync data…

Recently talked about Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance Operations and Supply Chain Management integration with Common Data Services - Dual write, Virtual Entities, and Data Integrator. Idea is to show how FO data can be utilized in Power Platform being now as a part of MS Ecosystem as an business application...

Somebody asked in the Community forum for examples of display methods in views in the standard D365FO application. It’s not necessary to remember any concrete examples – finding all such methods is very simple. The right tool for this purpose is Metadata search . Open Metadata search (Visual...

Hi fellow developers. Back in the early days I was at a good old Damgaard conference, and attended at a technical session. In this session one of the founding fathers of Axapta came up with the phrase “ Copy with pride “. What he meant was to look at existing code and patterns in the X++ code...

Business Intelligence and Reporting has evolved in Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations since it’s launch. Entity store is the default relational database for dynamics 365 for finance and operations containing several aggregate measures and customers rely on it for near real time dashboarding on data...

tl;dr Click the links. Best of Dynamics 365 Finance, SCM, HR, Projects Best of Power BI About the “Best Of” Feeds One of my personal goals in 2020 is to highlight and support other people who are doing excellent work in my nerd communities. I’ve been working recently on...

In this post I will give an up-to-date overview of D365 Finance and Operations integration options, mentioning their methods of integration and advantages and disadvantages of every integration method compared to each other. I will also give you information and advices from my first hand experiences...

Power BI App Workspaces have come a long way over the past couple of years. New features provide powerful methods for deploying reports; centralizing the heavy lifting around data modeling, while still giving users the ability to share reports and self-service reporting. Having a good strategy for organizing...

A nightmare for retailers is situations like this, where customers are experiencing empty shelfs. The normal process for handling these situations is to have store employees to constantly monitor shelfs, back office stocks and to order replenishment when needed. We also see a lot of number crunching...

Business Analysts need source control for Power BI files. There’s a simple way to share Power BI files using a combination of Office 365 Files and the OneDrive Sync desktop client. I’ll Store Files In C:\Temp Like I Always Have The entire Power BI .pbix file is one “thing” from a...

In continuation of our journey to have D365 FinOps data in CDS, Following has been covered. Part 1: The Dual Write implementation - Understanding Dual-write and setup application users Part 2: The Dual Write implementation - Understand and Action Pre-requisites The Dual-write has been setup and the dual-write...

Do you have many tabs in Visual Studio with designers and code editors and do you struggle to make sense of them? It’s not surprising – we often work with many things at once and some elements even have same names (e.g. VendTable table and form), which means that tabs for them look identical....