Engineer / Solution Architect / Dynamics 365-AX Technical Consultant / Instructor (MCT)

In this article, I will explain what Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations Optimization Advisor is and what it does. Optimization Advisor is a tool that allows business analysts and consultants to identify problems in module configuration and business data. Optimization Advisor recommends best practices for module configuration, and identifies outdated or incorrect setup and business data, and provides information to take action.

Open the workspace by using Modules > System administration > Workspaces > Optimization Advisor.

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My application is a dev environment with demo data, so many suggestions are listed. As I am a software developer, the suggestion that immediately caught my eye was the performance-related one. It is for using batch to improve posting performance. I click More Information.

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Here, there are details of the finding. If you decide to do it, click Take action.

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It opens the general ledger parameters form for you. From the Batch transfer rules tab, I select Scheduled batch for Transfer mode. Thus, I took action on an item of Optimization Advisor.

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In this article, I tried to explain what Optimization Advisor is and how to use it. It’s a nice feature, but the recommendations here should be tested first in test environment. Each parameter has different effects on the system. Some settings may be deliberately different in the project design. You shouldn’t change it just because you saw it here and considered it correct.

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TAGs: Microsoft Life Cycle Services, LCS, Azure, Azure DevOps, Optimization Advisor, Microsoft Dynamics 365, MsDyn365FO, MsDyn365CE, MsDyn365

In this article, I will introduce Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations data management infrastructure (Data Management Framework). The scope of data management is very large. I will try to talk about the basic principles in this series. Data is very important for every application, but the reason for the existence of ERP is to collect the data correctly and to create meaningful reports from the collected data. For this reason, the product has always had powerful tools for data management. With the cloud, these are now very advanced. Many different technologies such as CDS and Azure DataLake were involved. Of course, SQL and table structure remains, but with the added Data entities structure, we have a much more flexible and easily managed structure. In this section, I will try to explain how to manage Data Entity and Entity Packeges using the data management infrastructure.

The data management infrastructure consists of the following objects.

• Data entities – They are meaningful data sets. It is a structure that consists of one or more data sources to view and process a certain data. Data Entity allows us to bring these data sources together and perform transactions over a meaningful data set. It is suitable for reuse. It is used for integration, data transfer and many other purposes.
• Data project – A project record that holds edited Data Entity and relationships. It can be reused.
• Data job – Includes run Data Projects, uploaded files and recurring processes.
• Job history – Keeps the history of transactions.
• Data package – It is a compressed structure with Data project manifest and Data files. It is created over the data job. It allows importing and exporting multiple files in one operation.

You can use this structure for three different scenarios:

• Data migration
• Set up and copy configurations
• Integration

Let’s get to the topic of this article. We’ll start with a very simple data transfer. We will transfer the vendor group. (VendGroup). Log in to Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations and open Workspaces > Data management worksheet.

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Click Framework parameters Tile. Tile’ı nasıl çevirmek lazım emin olamadım. En iyi uygunu tuğla veya fayans gibi duruyor ama ben karo diyeceğim. J  You can make many settings from the screen that opens. Now just select the View defaults section as Enhanced view.

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This is now the advanced view. You can return to the old view by selecting Standard view.

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Click on the Import tile.

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Enter the basic information and click Add File.

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By the way, the data I will transfer is a csv as shown below.

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From the window that opens, I first select the Entity I want to transfer from. I determine the format. I select my file by clicking Upload and add.

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I click Yes.

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Here it says some relationships are missing between my file and the Entity. I can do it here if I want. I lick No for now.

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Transfer failed due to lack of relationships. However, the project was created. I click the icon under view map.

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It shows the links between my file and the Entity. Since the headings in my file are tags, it could not auto-match. I can do it manually from here.

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I have completed my mappings and I save.

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I go to my project and click Import.

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It adds the transfer to the working list.

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It quickly completed the transfer because my data was too little.

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Now I can open the VendGroup form and see the records I imported.

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In this article, I made an introduction to data management and performed a very simple data transfer. I will talk about very different uses of this structure in my following articles. Both consultants and software developers need to know the capabilities of this very well. There are many different uses. It is a structure that will save you a lot of time with proper use.

Regards.

www.fatihdemirci.net

TAGs: Microsoft Life Cycle Services, LCS, Azure, Azure DevOps, Data Management Framework, Microsoft Dynamics 365, MsDyn365FO, MsDyn365CE, MsDyn365, Dynamics 365 Insights Power BI, Power Automate, Power Apps, Power Virtual Agents, what is Dynamics 365, Dynamics 365 ERP, Dynamics 365 CRM

Bu yazıda X++ DataManupulation nasıl yapılır anlatmaya çalışacağım. Veri oluşturma güncelleme ve silme işlemleri ERP için en temel fonksiyonalardır. X++ ile nasıl yapılır bir örnek yapalım. Önceki yazılarımda kullandığım FDBookTable’ı kullanacağım.

class FDDataManupulation

{

public static void main(Args _args)

{

FDBookTable bookTable;

FDBookTable bookTableUp;

;

bookTable.clear(); // TableBuffer’ı temizliyoruz.

bookTable.BookId    = “B005″;

bookTable.BookName  = “Book 1″;

bookTable.insert(); // Yeni kayıt oluşturma

bookTable.clear();

bookTable.BookId    = “B006″;

bookTable.BookName  = “Book 2″;

if(bookTable.validateWrite()) // Kodla insert yaptığınızda validasyon çalışmaz bu yüzden koda eklemek gerekiyor.

{

bookTable.insert();

}

// Güncelleme yapalım. Öncelikle güncellemek istediğimiz kaydı seçmeliyiz ve Transaction bloğu oluşturmalıyız. Bunun sebebi eğer güncelleme sırasında bir hata olursa geri alma yapabilmektir.

ttsbegin;

select forupdate bookTableUp

where bookTableUp.BookId == “B006″;

bookTableUp.BookName = “Book 3″;

bookTableUp.update(); // Tek bir satır günceller

ttscommit;

ttsbegin;

while select forupdate bookTableUp

where bookTableUp.BookId == “B006″

{

bookTableUp.updare(); // Yine tek bir satır günceller ama eğer sorgudan daha çok kayıt gelseydi mesela kapak tipine göre filtre verseydim gelen tüm kayıtları güncellerdi.

}

ttscommit;

// Kayıt silme

delete_from

where bookTableUp.BookId == “B006″; En temel kullanımı budur ama Delete metoduyla da silebilirsiniz.

while select forupdate bookTableUp

where bookTableUp.BookId == “B006″

{

bookTableUp.delete(); // Kaydı siler

}

}

}

Bu yazıda temel Insert Update Delete nasıl yapılır anlatmaya çalıştım. Performans açısından bunları doğru yapmak çok önemli. Birde bunları Bulk halinde yapabilmeniz mümkün onları da ayrıca anlatacağım.

Selamlar.

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TAGs: X++,Insert,Update,Delete, Azure, Azure DevOps, Microsoft Dynamics 365, MsDyn365FO, MsDyn365CE, MsDyn365

Bu yazıda Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations tablo metotlarından Insert() metodunu anlatacağım. Önceki yazılarımda tabloların temel yapılarından bahsetmiştim. Şimdi ayrıntılı olarak alt seviye nesne ve metotları inceleyeceğim. Tablolar XRecord sınıfından türetilen aslında SQL tabloların sınıf karşılıklarıdır. Sınıflardan temel bir iki farkı vardır. Sınıf olmasına rağmen New ile nesne oluşturmak gerekmez. Alanlar metot gibi davranın ama paranteze ihtiyaç duymaz. Insert() metodu tabloda bir kayıt oluşturan metottur.

FDBookTable tablosunda Metotlara sağ tıklayıp Insert() metodunu Override ettim.

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Insert işlemini yani kaydın DB’ye yazılmasını aslında Super() yapar. Super() ezilen metodu çağıran koddur. Dolayısıyla Super()’den önce kayıt henüz DB ye yazılmamıştır. Kaydetmeden önce bir işlem yapmak istiyorsanız Super()’den önce sonra yapmak istiyorsanız Super()’den sonra yazmalısınız. Ben Basit bir satır ekledim. Çok doğru bir yer olmamakla birlikte çalışır. Insert() metodu validasyon için kullanılmamalıdır.

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Tablo tarayıcısını açıp yeni bir kayıt oluşturduğumda otomatik BookCount 1 olarak oluşuyor.

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Şimdi standart bir tablonun Insert() metoduna bakalım. Kodları görebilmek için View code demeniz gerekiyor.

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void insert(DirPartyType _partyType = DirPartyType::None, Name _name = ”,boolean _updateCRM=true)

{

DirPartyType   type;

ttsbegin;

// Check if not associated to Party

if (!this.Party)

{

// Create a Party entry for customer

this.Party = DirPartyTable::createNew(_partyType, _name).RecId;

}

else

{

if (!this.VATNum)

{

this.VATNum = TaxRegistration::getPrimaryRegistrationNumber(DirPartyTable::findRec(this.Party), TaxRegistrationTypesList::TAXID);

}

this.initFromsmmLeadTable();

}

smmBusRelTable smmBusRelTable = smmBusRelTable::findByParty(this.Party, true);

if (smmBusRelTable.RecId)

{

smmBusRelTable.BusRelTypeId = smmBusRelTypeGroup::getCustomerType();

smmBusRelTable.update(false);

}

super();

// Insert new customer in full text search table

MCRFullTextSearch::insert(this);

this.SysExtensionSerializerMap::postInsert();

if (SysCountryRegionCode::isLegalEntityInCountryRegion([#isoMX]))

{

this.copyInfoToParty();

}

smmTransLog::initTrans(this, smmLogAction::insert);

DirPartyRelationship::createLegalEntityRelationship(this.Party, this.DataAreaId, DirSystemRelationshipType::Customer);

// Add links to contact person

ContactPerson::addCustVendLink(this.TableId, this.Party, this.AccountNum);

// Create default location if using existing party

LogisticsLocationDefaultAppUtil::createDefaultForExistingParty(this);

DimensionDefaultFacade::copyDimensionValueToDefaultDimensionField(this, fieldNum(CustTable, AccountNum), this, fieldNum(CustTable, DefaultDimension));

ttscommit;

}

Bu kodda iki yere dikkat çekeceğim. Birincisi if (!this.Party) ile başlayan kod burada eğer parti kodu yoksa oluşturmak üzerine bir kod var. Superden önce çünkü kayıt oluşmadan önce oluşmalı ve CustTable’daki ilişkili alana yazılmalı. İkincisi ContactPerson::addCustVendLink(this.TableId, this.Party, this.AccountNum); ilgili kişi oluşturma. Burada da müşteri kaydı oluşmalı ki müşteri kodu kullanılarak ilişkili kişi kaydı oluşturulsun.

Selamlar.

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TAGs: X++,Insert, Azure, Azure DevOps, Microsoft Dynamics 365, MsDyn365FO, MsDyn365CE, MsDyn365

In this article, I will explain how to install the Deployable Package created with Build, which is the last step of moving the developments we made from Visual Studio for Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations to Test and Live environments, to Asset Library and then how to carry this package to test and live systems. I talk about performing a simple development movement with this article. Of course, there are too many details here. There are many steps that need to be examined, especially when problems arise.

This process may be more troublesome compared to the old version, but it is definitely a better method. It will be difficult for customers who still develop live and move codes to live every day, but they should definitely switch to moving at least once a week. Even for the old version, we recommend moving to live once a week (twice at most). In this version, moving to live more frequently causes a great loss of time. The problem I usually see in projects that require intervention to live too much is that your test and design stages are insufficient. Developments that are not well designed and tested, constantly create a need to intervene to live environment. With this work logic, you cannot create projects in the new version.

In the third article of this series, we downloaded the Deployable Package, which was the result of Build. We can now upload this package to Lifecycle Services. Log in to the LCS and select our project. Open Asset Library from the menu.

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Open the Software Deploable Package tab. Open the new package download page by clicking +.

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On the page that opens, enter a name and description. It is useful to set a standard here.  Click Add a file.

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Select the package you downloaded.

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After the installation is complete, click Confirm.

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Our package appears in the list. It is not yet confirmed. After a few minutes the Valid part will also be checked. Now we can install this package in our test and live environments.

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Since it is not live in this environment, I will first show it from the test. The same steps are required for live as well.  Open your SANDBOX Test environment by clicking Full details.

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Click Maintain-> Apply updates.

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Select the package you installed from the window that opens. Apply is not active without naming it. You need to specify a suitable name format. In the new version, one of the most difficult things seems to be naming. You have to give names so many times that it is difficult to set and apply rules everywhere. After you click Apply, the test environment will automatically start to install the package and you will not be able to access the environment for at least 1 hour. You should be aware of that. You can follow the status of the installation process on the detail page of your environment.

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The process of making the package live is the same, except there are two differences. Firstly, you need to mark the Package as Release Candidate. Second, you need to set the date you want the package to go live. This is done by using the Schedule button. I could not provide an image of it because it was not live in this environment yet.

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In this article, we completed the process of moving a development environment to test and live. Of course, I explained it through a very simple and problem-free scenario. In real life, things are not that simple, but not so difficult as well. There are many tools to solve problems. Being organized is very important. You should pay attention to naming and standards. I will continue to explain the details and solution methods of this whole process. I hope it is useful for you.

Regards.

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TAGs: Microsoft Life Cycle Services, LCS, Azure, Azure DevOps , Release Candidate, Deployable Package, Microsoft Dynamics 365, MsDyn365FO, MsDyn365CE, MsDyn365, Dynamics 365 Insights Power BI, Power Automate, Power Apss, Power Virtual Agents, what is Dynamics 365, Dynamics 365 ERP, Dynamics 365 CRM