Faisal Fareed

If you face following error all of a sudden when accessing tier 1 environment like I faced, follow next steps in the post to get it working. The SSL certificate has been expired and requires renewal How to renew the certificate? The easiest way is to…

There are times when clients want to start hierarchy approval from a specific worker and not from the one who initiated the workflow and then traverse up the hierarchy. Scenario: Invoices are coming from third-party into FinOps and creating tax invoice…

There are times when you want to add a new type of participant other than security role participants and user group participants, this post describes the steps to take and achieve this requirement. This is the final output Let's find out how did it work…

Want assurance that you never select/include fleet management modules in package creation or build all module together. Just rename the Descriptor folder from all these three locations and refresh models in VS first time to reflect the changes. <Service…

Find which data entity is obsolete after every new update. Here are the steps. For example; Customers V2 data entity is obsolete with version 8.0 For developers: Type the below in the metadata search in VSTS: type:dataentityview property:isobsolete=yes…

The Microsoft team did release platform update 12 for Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, Enterprise Edition 7.3. There have been few changes concerning accessibility (admin access on VMs). Starting with platform update 12 users do not have admin…

If you created a new data entity and it's not visible in your data management entity list. Open Data Management workspace -> Framework parameters -> Entity Settings and hit the "Refresh Entity List" button

This post outlines the steps how to debug an issue which is happening in non-development or non-production environments e.g. UAT environment. !--[if !supportLists]-->1. !--[endif]-->RDP to your environment where you want to debug the issue, with this…

Sample code to read an excel file, all it need file stream as a parameter.public boolean importFromExcelfiles(System.IO.Stream _stream){ OfficeOpenXml.ExcelWorksheet worksheet; OfficeOpenXml.ExcelRange &nbs...

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Another most awaiting Extensibility feature (Chain of Command) is going to come with one of the next platform updates. This enables you to call/use protected members and methods without making them hookable and using pre/post event handlers. More details…

The current user or worker could be retrieved through following code since AX 2012DirPersonUser::currentWorker()However, In Dynamics 365 for operation this has refactored to;HcmWorkerLookup::currentWorker()

Following code snippet may help you to remove an XML node from an XML message string.private str removeXMLTag(str xml){ XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument(); XmlElement &n...

Following code can be used to read files from the specified path. With this example, I am reading a CSV files from a directory.Class declarationclass readFilesFromDirectory extends RunBase{ FilePath filePath; &n...

Code snippet to create a sales order from an XML file.private void createSOFromFile(){ AxdSalesOrder salesOrder; AifEntityKey key; Filename fileName; ...

XML to read X++ Code For above XML structure, I will read all nodes exist within each InstructorAPIModel node. The getElementsByTagName() method of XmlDocument class can be used which returns XmlNodeList which can then be iterated to get node's values…

XML to read X++ CodeXmlDocument doc;XmlNodeList xmlScriptList;XmlNodeList xmlResponseList;XmlNodeList xmlTemplateList;XmlElement nodeScript;XmlElement &n...

Recently came across a requirement to attach documents and create notes for a sales order after reading files from directories.Documents can be attached to a sales order manually from the following button. Code snippet to create notes or attach documents…

This post outlines the steps; how to add financial dimensions (segmented control) in a grid in D365O.Let's assume we are adding new table and form for below explanation;New table contains two fields AccountType and LedgerDimension with relation to DimensionAttributeValueCombination…

Data entity is a new concept comes with D365O release where each entity related data can be accessed from a single view.A data entity is an abstraction from the physical implementation of database tables. For example, customer related data is stored in…

DynaLinks can be removed and added between datasources on form using this code;The following code is implemented in the Click event of a button. ClearDynaLinks() will remove all existing dynaLinks [these can be seen by right click on the click > Personalise…

DynaLinks can be removed and added between datasources on form using this code;I implemented this code on clicked method of a button on an AX form.void clicked(){ SalesQuotationLine_ds.query().dataSourceNo(1).clearDynalinks(); SalesQuotationLine_ds.query…

Number sequence framework in there for a while with the release of AX 2012 however, with the arrival of D365 we need to make a small addition on top of what we have been doing in AX 2012.All steps remain same as summarize below to generate number sequence…

Selecting an appropriate form pattern has never been that easy. https://ax.help.dynamics.com/en/wiki/how-to-select-a-form-pattern/ This explains, which form pattern will suit your requirements with examples where your to be selected form pattern has been…

Having passed the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Development Introduction exam (MB6-890), here are few thoughts on the exam which might help someone who is planning to appear in this exam. If you are an experienced AX developer and have worked on AX 2012 - you…