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Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations is built on open standards like OAuth 2.0, OData v4 and RESTful JSON Web service APIs, which makes it possible for us to integrate our business apps with many different platforms and environments. One of these possibilities is integration with the popular mobile...

Presenter: Dan Edwards Auto Date Fields Power BI can create automatic date hierarchies , for report and drill down by Year/Quarter/Month/Day. It’s important to consider whether your data model has more than one fact table with a date attribute. If there are multiple facts, or you have already created...

Having difficulty understanding your own business data is probably not something you would expect to happen to you, but I know many people, including many 10+ AX experts who have a difficult time following the information about item availability when it comes to warehouse related items. In this blog post, I will try to walk you through a specific example, line by line, column by column. Note I

In this post I will talk about sending a file to a temporary blob storage. A little warning before I get into it. This is using the Microsoft’s blob storage that is provisioned for us. I haven’t given it a lot of thought on how it would behave in production. Take it at your own risk. Lets start by looking back on a couple of posts last month on printing a report to a byte array. http://dynamicsnavax.blogspot.com/2018…

Microsoft presented today at D365UG summit on some of the new UI, Financials, and Production features available. Presenters: Jason Green, Mike Faulkner, Philippe Jacobsen PowerPoint (Login Required) Check the Release notes for the specific estimated release date of these features. Some may be released...

How much telemetry are we collecting? A lot, like, really a lot! That includes kernel level information, like an online user session requesting web access to a particular AOS to perform business operations through the web UI, a web service request to handle a mobile device operation, an OData request for exporting or importing data, exceptions and other infolog messages displayed to the user,

Looking for some fantastic sessions? Check these out – all led by a Microsoft MVP. D365UG & AXUG Community General Session & Microsoft Town Hall MVP Kelly Kane! She’s in charge! #womenindynamics Kelly Kane @kellylappkane | Tuesday, October 16 | 8:15 AM – 9:15 AM | North Building,...

I am usually doing this from the development environment. However, I was debugging a customer environment where I only had access to the front end. I had a table that only gave me the RefTableId. I needed to find out the table that record related to. I used SysTableIdView from table browser. Here is the link. http://usnconeboxax1aos.cloud.onebox.dynamics.com/?cmp=usmf&mi=SysTableBrowser&TableName=SysTableIdView

I wanted to highlight some of my partners in crime presenting at AXUG/D365UG Summit next week. (Ok to be honest I wanted to highlight myself as well.) BI12 | Moving From Reports to Business Intelligence I won’t take Excel away until you’re ready. Promise. https://www.eventscribe.com/2018...

Sometimes you may want to generate a Word document from code in D365FO, which gives you much more control over the result than if you simply printed a report to Word. Here is a very brief example of how you can do it. Start with creating an X++ project. Then add a C# class library to the same project...

You can easily send a D365FO report in email just by configuring print destination to Email and setting a few properties. You can do the same from code, where you can also set the body. You must create an instance of SrsReportEMailDataContract class, fill it values and pass it to SRSPrintDestinationSettings...

A comment below my blog post  Printing reports from code in AX2012 asked me to provide an example for D365FO. Here is it. The code is virtually identical. Only writing a file to a shared folder doesn’t make a good sense in cloud, therefore I changed the code to return the file to user for download....

In the DefaultConfig.xml file located under C:\Users\[user]\Documents\Visual Studio 2015\Settings you can change all sorts of settings for how Visual Studio works with Dynamics. I needed to change something in this file on a local VM today. But the file kept being overwritten whenever I started Visual Studio...

To keep this blog up to date I would like to mention some changes done in code extensibility of D365 for Finance and Operations since my last post about D365FO extensibility, AX7 (D365) Chain of command with examples , in November 2017. Replaceable keyword In chain of command method extensions, now you...

You'll need a Test Manager license to create and maintain test plans (add or remove tests). Test Manager is included in Visual Studio Enterprise and Visual Studio Test Professional. You can see pricing here: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/pricing/ Alternatively you can buy a Test Manager license...

Sending a message to Azure Service Bus is really simple in FinOps. Below is the job I wrote to send a message to the service bus. It takes a connection string and a queue name for connecting. The message string and key value pair list can be supplied to the properties. static str connectionString = 'Endpoint=sb://navaxservicebus.servicebus.windows.net/;SharedAccessKeyName=RootManageSharedAccessKey;SharedAccessKey=h5KwXSEFIHxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx…

Microsoft Dynamics 365 is the fastest innovation and most agile business software in the world. A very feature rich solution with a packed very fast moving roadmap . We see new possibilities and features coming monthly in platform update, fall/spring releases. if you look at the entire platform-stack...

Azure Key Vault is a service that allows you to store secret keys, like passwords or certificates for external web-services, to be used by your different apps. When stored in Key Vault, none of your apps need to know details about or store these secrets by themselves. No more passwords laying around...

Earlier this month I posted on how to print a report as a byte array . I will do the same but using an alternative method. I will use the print archive instead. You need to create an extension class for the SRSPrintArchiveContract class to add a parm method for the RecId. [ExtensionOf(classStr(SRSPrintArchiveContract))] final class SRSPrintArchiveContract_NAVAX_Extension { public RefRecId navaxPrintJobHeaderRecId; public…

Platform 20 was recently released and includes a number of noticeable changes to the User Interface; this article will highlight some of the significant changes. Overall, these changes are a welcome incremental improvement to some common usability issues. Workspaces Workspaces on the Default Dashboard...