When looking at the reporting options in Dynamics, it sometimes feels that there are just way too many, and, even though there are lots of good ones, there is always something that seems to be missing. Just so we could start somewhere, let’s see what Microsoft has to say: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn531183.aspx In other words, we… Read More »
It’s been said a number of times in different blogs that context.Depth may have side effects, but I am starting to think we should actually ban the practice of using context.Depth all together. It’s almost impossible to predict plugin execution paths as long as your solution gains any level of complexity, but, even in a… Read More »
From the inventory tracking perspective, finding out that you actually have negative quantity at the warehouse might lead to some interesting experiences. I mean it would be nice if we could sell things which are not there yet. And you may find yourself in that kind of situation when working with the Field Service: This… Read More »
I was setting up products for Field Service and made a bit of a rookie mistake.. Which resulted in the same product being available in some places but not in others. See, on the following screenshot I have a few mugs in the Main warehouse: However, when I tried creating a new purchase order, I… Read More »
It’s not unusual that we need to know what has changed since the last time we did anything in the Dynamics environment. As I mentioned in the previous post, we have some manual and half-manual options, but it would be nice to have a bit more automation there. For example, there is a change… Read More »
One of the problems with Dynamics solution development is that there is no change history. Anyone with sufficient permissions can go to Dynamics, add an attribute or update an optionset, and there will be no record of it anywhere. There are a couple of ways we can deal with that, but let’s have a look… Read More »
Frankly, I got a bit stuck on this. As far as Dynamics solution development process is concerned, I’ve seen quite a few different scenarios. Some of them were more mature than others, but none of them were without problems. Merge problem aside, you may have multiple Dynamics organizations with one org per developer or you… Read More »
The project I’ve been working on slowed down a little bit in the last few days, so I suddenly got some spare cycles.. And what do you do with the spare cycles? You spend them on something, preferably on something useful. So.. I started to do this: It’s actually nice to take a break… Read More »
Looks like something has changed in V9 recently that did affect my Configuration Data Manager solution, too, so there is an updated version you can download now which works with V9. It also fixes a couple of issues related to big integer numbers and to the missing N:N relationships. Yet keeping in mind that… Read More »
Hierarchy security has a bit unexpected side-effect. In theory, it is supposed to give managers access to the records assigned to their subordinates – I am assuming the idea there was to bypass role security and to quickly give managers access to that data. But what if we had a record assigned to a… Read More »