Is the full value being extracted from our D365F&SCM system?

The approach to most implementations of a D365 system is a clean system, meaning no modifications. This contrasts with the systems predecessors, Axapta and Dynamics AX, where most systems were modified, and some were to the extreme.

An issue with importing a task recording into Visual Studio 2022

From D365F&SCM you can create a task recording of any business process. Once complete you can save this to your local computer as a axtr file. If you want to import the task recording into Visual Studio you will need to select the option to “save development version” which will create a local xml file.

DevOps project setup for D365F&SCM

D365F&SCM uses DevOps for both managing the items and tasks to be completed on the system, but also as a version control for the code. When setting up a new development machine, it is important to configure the environment to use DevOps so you can store your code changes and pull all the code others have completed.

There are several steps that need to be completed, and since this is not something that is often undertaken by a developer often, it is useful to have a documented process on how it should be configured. The exact configuration for each implementation will be different. It will depend on the role the development instance will undertake, so the setup should be documented for each implementation. This guide will walk through a basic setup that, once completed, will allow the developer to change the system and release them to DevOps.

Development Mistakes

There are three overlooked areas in development that contribute to poor system performance and poor user experience. Including these areas in your development toolset will help to reduce these issues in the production environment when all the users are using the system.

To develop or not to develop

Microsoft Dynamics 365 F&SCM is a continually updated system. Customers must implement a minimum of two updates per year and can only forgo a maximum of three consecutive updates. This means that all customers are current, unlike the Dynamics AX customers, which are typically years out of date.

Select IN keyword

When developing in D365F&SCM there is a new control available with the Select statement. The IN keyword is not available.

Setting the default model

When developing in D365F&SCM you need to ensure you are working in the correct model. There are two ways to set the model.

Upgrading Reports to D365F&SCM – Designs

When you want to move a report design in to an SSRS report in AX2012 you can move them to D365FO by copying the raw data from the AX2012 XPO directly into the D365FO xml file.

Upgrading Reports to D365F&SCM – Images

When you have images embedded in to an SSRS report in AX2012 you can move them to D365FO by copying the data from the AX2012 XPO directly into the D365FO xml file.

Visual Studio – Unable to preview the report, install the business intelligence developemnt studio feature

When running visual studio 10 for development of reports on AX2012 R2 you might encounter the error “unable to preview the report, install the business intelligence developemnt studio feature”. This is caused by a missing component, required by visual studio 2010, to edit and preview the reports.