I was asked to investigate why some changes disappeared from Employess form in F&O. If I open Human resources > Workers > Employees and right-click the form, it shows that its name is HcmWorker. That’s expected. But it’s a lie. There is a feature called Streamlined employee entry (HcmWorkerV2Feature class) and if it’s enabled, another form …
We usually have methods where the logic is written in code and it just receives some data in parameters. But sometimes it’s benefitial to allow the caller code to define a piece of logic by itself. For example, I can write code to filter a collection and let consumers decide what condition should be used …
Imagine that you’re running a set of payment matching rules or you’re trying to find discounts based on various criteria. You’ll try one way to find the data, if it doesn’t bring anything, you try another one, and so on. A typical implementation looks like this: found = trySomething(); if (!found) { found = …
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Data management in Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations supports several types of files for import and export. I usually see XML, Excel and CSV used, but sometimes we also need to deal with a text format with fixed-width columns. It means that there is no column separator as in CSV – we know that …
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There was a question in the Community forum about creating tables in an external databases that would match the schema of F&O data entities. One of the possible approaches is generating SQL code for CREATE TABLE statement. The information about field names, types and such things would be taken from F&O metadata and we already …
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