Introduction: Lot of D365 Administrators would have observed that we no longer see the Organization Insights solution on AppSource anymore. This is because you can now see the Organization Insights on the new Administration portal for D365. New D365 Admin Portal! There is new portal for D365 Administration which is in preview. You will see the option to go to new D365 Admin Portal from the Current Admin portal screen. Administrators can also access the portal from the URL: https://admin.powerplatform.microsoft.com The new portal is also called as the Power Platform since it now includes Administration of your Power Apps and CDS as well. You can manage the environments, do the analytics and lot more things. I am expecting this Portal will be upgraded and will have lot more features in future.

In this blog article, we will see how we can create a Fixed Asset using code based on AssetGroupID. Add below code in class to create a Fixed Asset, public void createFixedAsset(AssetGroupId assetGroupId) {         AssetTable assetTable;         NumberSeq numberSeq;         assetTable.initValue();         assetTable.assetGroup = AssetGroupId;         //Initialize Number Seq for Asset Id         numberSeq = assetTable.initAssetNumberSeq(assetTable.Assetgroup);         AssetTable.AssetId = NumberSeq.num();           //Initialize other fields based on Asset Group assetTable.initFromAssetGroupId(assetTable.Assetgroup);         //Initialize name and Name Alias fron Item Id         assetTable.Name = InventTable::find(‘ITM1104’).itemName();         assetTable.NameAlias = assetTable.Name;         //Validate and Insert Fixed Asset. On insertion asset book is also created         assetTable.validateWrite();         assetTable.insert();     }

Introduction: You might receive alert “The Team member position has already been filled” while submitting a request for an actual resource. Description: I was working on a project and we use PSA solution for resource management. Some Team Members was already added in project with “Generic Resource” and we wanted to replace resource with actual team member. But whenever I try to submit Resource request in PSA in “Project Team Member” I Receive alert message with “The Team member position has already been filled“. Solution: When you are adding a Project Team Member, are you choosing “Generic Resource” on Bookable Resource lookup for that team member? When you do this, you’re setting a Bookable Resource to team and thus can’t request for one anymore. When adding a Project Team Member, leave the Bookable Resource lookup unpopulated. This way a Bookable Resource is not assigned on the project team and you can submit a request against the created generic. When adding the Architect (Role), I have chosen Generic Demo Resource in the Bookable Resource lookup on the Quick Create. When adding the Consultant, I have left the Bookable Resource lookup unpopulated. Conclusion: So, this can be avoided if you are adding Resource from “Project Team member Associated view”.

Introduction: Quite simply put, some of the embedded dialogs like the Advanced Find, Merge Records, Assign & Edit record windows which are not by default visible on the Unified Client Like when you multi-select records, you can’t see the typical Merge, Edit buttons on the ribbon. Here’s how you enable them. System Settings: In your Web Application’s system settings, you have an option under general where you can enable these buttons in the Unified Interface. Now, you can retain those buttons in the Unified Interface as well. Have a great time exploring Unified Interface!

Introduction: This blog explains an alternative approach to Activate an Order in UCI. Scenario: We are using Prospect to Cash solution to integrate Sales Order from Sales to Operations (CRM To Operations). In UCI Activate Order button is not working which is used for Order Integration. In this blog we will see an alternative approach to achieve this. Pre-Requisites:    D365 Sales    Microsoft Flow Steps to be followed: Dynamics 365 – 1. Create Custom “Activate Order” button in UCI. 2. Add below JavaScript code which will trigger on Click of “Activate Order” Button. (This code will take the Order Guid and pass it to the http post request) Refer this blog to understand more about HTTP Post Request using Microsoft Flows: https://www.cloudfronts.com/http-post-requests-using-microsoft-flows/ // JavaScript source code CallMSFlowsToActivateOrder: function () { var entityGuid = Xrm.Page.data.entity.getId(); entityGuid = entityGuid.replace(“{“, “”).replace(“}”, “”); var data = JSON.stringify({ “OrderID”: entityGuid }); var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest(); xhr.withCredentials = true; xhr.addEventListener(“readystatechange”, function () { if (this.readyState === 4) { console.log(this.responseText); } }); var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest(); xhr.open(“POST”, “URL Created From MS Flow”, true); xhr.setRequestHeader(‘Content-Type’, ‘application/json’); xhr.send(JSON.stringify({ “OrderID”: entityGuid })); } Microsoft Flow: 1. Create Flow from Blank. 2. Select the Http request is received trigger. 3. Add below in Request body JSON Schema 4. Add Get Record Trigger of Dynamics 365. In Item identifier pass the OrderId from the Dynamic Content. 5. List all related Sales Order Product of that Order. 6. Add apply to each control and update the value of Order is Active field. 7. Update the Processing state field of Order entity. Overall Flow:

Introduction: This blog details steps for Run Report button in UCI Form via Web Browser in D365 Sales. Scenario: Client requires Run Report button in UCI Form for Order Entity in D365 Sales Steps: Below are steps to be performed for enabling Report button on Order Entity Create WebResource with below javascript function. Create a button on Form and call function “PrintSalesOrderDetails”. Conclusion: Hope this blog helps you to run report in UCI browser.

Introduction: Sometime there is a need to know when and who imported the solution in to CRM. This will be done by XrmToolBox plugin called “Solution History”. Purpose of Solution History: The purpose of the tool is to view a historical list of solutions that have been imported. This provides sort of audit functionality for solutions, as the OOB solution view doesn’t really display how many times a solution has been imported, version number that was updated, error/warning messages that were encountered during solution import. Steps: Install Solution History plugin from Plugin Store in XrmToolBox. Open the plugin and connect to the environment. Select the time frame for the solution. The solutions will be displayed as below. Select the solution for which you want to check the details. Click on Load Solution History. The details will be shown as highlighted below. Other methods of knowing this are listed below: 1) Looking in to the database 2) Checking XML Hope this helps!!

Introduction We had developed a functionality for Dynamics CRM v8.2 on Quote Entity by adding a custom button and on clicking a button we run a report, capture its contents using JavaScript, convert it to a PDF and attach the PDF to an Email Record. Below shown is the code snippet quoteInvoice = { runReportToPrint: function () { debugger; var params = quoteInvoice.getReportingSession(); var newPth = Xrm.Page.context.getClientUrl() + “/Reserved.ReportViewerWebControl.axd?ReportSession=” + params[0] + “&Culture=1033&CultureOverrides=True&UICulture=1033&UICultureOverrides=True&ReportStack=1&ControlID=” + params[1] + “&OpType=Export&FileName=public&ContentDisposition=OnlyHtmlInline&Format=PDF”; //Calling the below function converts the report to PDF format. quoteInvoice.convertResponseToPDF(newPth); }, getReportingSession: function () { var selectedIds = Xrm.Page.data.entity.getId(); selectedIds = selectedIds.replace(‘{‘, ”).replace(‘}’, ”); var strParameterXML = “<fetch distinct=’false’ mapping=’logical’ output-format=’xml-platform’ version=’1.0′><entity name= ‘quote’><all-attributes/><filter type=’and’><condition attribute=’quoteid’ value='” + selectedIds + “‘ operator=’eq’ /></filter></entity ></fetch >”; var reportGuid = “DAF05843-CA33-E711-811E-FC15B42827EC”; var reportName = “Quote Invoice.rdl”; var pth = Xrm.Page.context.getClientUrl() + “/CRMReports/rsviewer/QuirksReportViewer.aspx”; var retrieveEntityReq = new XMLHttpRequest(); retrieveEntityReq.open(“POST”, pth, false); retrieveEntityReq.setRequestHeader(“Accept”, “*/*”); retrieveEntityReq.setRequestHeader(“Content-Type”, “application/x-www-form-urlencoded”); retrieveEntityReq.send(“id=%7B” + reportGuid + “%7D&uniquename=” + Xrm.Page.context.getOrgUniqueName() + “&iscustomreport=true&reportnameonsrs=&reportName=” + reportName + “&isScheduledReport=false&p:quoteid=” + strParameterXML); var x = retrieveEntityReq.responseText.lastIndexOf(“ReportSession=”); var y = retrieveEntityReq.responseText.lastIndexOf(“ControlID=”); var ret = new Array(); ret[0] = retrieveEntityReq.responseText.substr(x + 14, 24); ret[1] = retrieveEntityReq.responseText.substr(x + 10, 32); return ret; } } The runReportToPrint() function is called when the custom button is clicked Issue and Error Details Once the environment was upgraded to V9.0 we were facing issues as the PDF that was generated was corrupted as show below. While debugging the code we got the following message. On further research we found that the URL has been changed and  below shown is the new path that has to be used which works correctly on V9.0. var pth = Xrm.Page.context.getClientUrl() + “/CRMReports/rsviewer/ReportViewer.aspx”; Once this change was done  we did not get any error and the PDF of the report that was generated opened correctly with all of  its contents.

Introduction: A “shared shift” configuration lets retailers have a single shift across multiple registers, cash drawers, and users. A shared shift has a single starting amount and a single closing amount that are summarized across all cash drawers. Shared shifts are most typical when mobile devices are used. In this scenario, a separate cash drawer isn’t reserved for each register. Instead, all registers can share one cash drawer. Steps to Configure: Go to Retail –> Channel setup –> POS setup –>POS profile –> Hardware profile –> Drawer –>Enable shared shift option. Go to Retail –> Workers–> Select the user and go to retail tab. Go to POS Permission and select the appropriate permission group and assign it to the user. Make sure that the  user must have “Allow manage shared shift and Allow use shared shift” permissions enabled Save the changes Go to Distribution Schedule and run the job for Register and Staff. Note: Only one shared shift can be opened at a time in each store.

Introduction: In this blog I’ll be demonstrating few features of Business Central October Release[RC3]. Pre-requisite: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central October Release[RC3]. Demonstration: 1.Refreshed User Experience Improved Card Page Layout. Improved List Page Categorized Actions. Changed position of New,Edit, Delete as well as Previous andNext buttons. 2. Improved Productivity Advanced filtering with multiple column filtering: Limit Totals: Row-based column copy past: Actual Data: Data in Excel Keyboard shortcuts: The October release, also consists the shortcut F8 that copies the value of the cell above. Thus, you can fill the new rows by moving across cells and selecting F8 on the cells where you want to copy the values from cell above. List of Keyboard Shortcuts : https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/keyboard-shortcuts 3. Improved Search The search option has also been enhanced and categorized where previous search results were only related to pages and reports. In the upcoming release with the improvement in logic, the search results will also include the actions on the current page and the documentation along with the reports and pages. From the search itself you can check and perform the tasks that you want (for example: Create a contact for customer) Enter the contact details for the customer and click on OK 4. Permission Sets are Editable In Business Central October Release, the Permission Sets are Editable. New Permission Sets can be created as well as Permission Sets can be modified and also indented as well. Click on More Options to get the details. Changing the Permisison Sets in Business Central: Added an execute permission: Conclusion: These are few features of the Business Central. In the next blog I’ll demonstrate about the AL Language extension improvements.