Dual-write setup from Lifecycle Services fails at Application step

If you receive the issue with applying Dual-write for your D365FO environment following the standard procedure, you may need just to change one database parameter.

 Open SQL MS and switch this flip to True and keep default values for your database.

Now you can resume the process.

How to get back Import users button in D365FO

 

 You may start experiencing the following issue with button Import users.

It happens because Microsoft changed their approach to devboxes settings:

As of November 15, 2023, certificates in your Microsoft Entra tenant are no longer installed in new one-box development environments by default. 

You can find more detail on how to install a certificate in this article, but we can use a shortcut using D365fo.tools.

Here are the steps:

    

   1) Go to Azure portal and select app registration and create a new one (name the app to be the same as the environment name & leave settings at default) 

   2) The app registration needs to have the following: 

       a) 2 reply URLs > https://<fno-url> & https://<fno-url>/oauth 

       b) add the following API permissions to the App registration: 

Grant above permissions.

3) On the VM for the environment, open PowerShell 

   4) Run the following commands: 

        a) Install-Module D365fo.tools, and accept all the prompts 

        b) New-D365EntraIntegration -ClientId <client-id> (client-id is the app registration id that was created) 

   5) The above command will save a certificate, which then needs to be uploaded to the app registration that was created 

 

How to fix Admin account after refreshing data base in your dev box

 If you refresh your devbox database from another environment and need to set up its admin account to your user, you can do it by executing the following SQL command.

update USERINFO 
set NAME = 'Admin', 
    NETWORKDOMAIN ='https://sts.windows.net/', 
    NETWORKALIAS = 'a.voytsekhovskiy@mydomain.net', 
    ENABLE = 1, 
    SID = 'S-1-19-XXXXXXXXXX-XXXXXXXXXX-XXXXXXXXXX-XXXXXXXXXX-XXXXXXXXXX-XXXXXXXXXX-XXXXXXXXXX-XXXXXXXXXX-XXXXXXXXXX-XXXXXXXXXX', 
    IDENTITYPROVIDER ='https://sts.windows.net/'
where ID = 'ADMIN'

NB: use your own email address and SID.

Importing a bacpac file to a development box SQL

 Just to memorize some steps to import a database from a bacpac file.

1. Download and run the DacFramework.msi installer for Windows
2. Put the backup.bacpac file close to the SQL database, say, in the root folder on disk G:
3. Run the bat file. 

@echo Importing a bacpac data to SQL database
c:
cd C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\160\DAC\bin
SqlPackage.exe /a:import /sf:G:\backup.bacpac /tsn:localhost /tdn:AxDB_Restored /p:CommandTimeout=1200 /TargetTrustServerCertificate:True
pause

Take note about the last option: without it importing fails with the following error.

Project intercompany invoice sales tax calculation bug in 10.0.37

 While Microsoft working on this issue, let me show you how you can fix it in the current code running on 10.0.37 or lower.

Scenario

When using the project intercompany customer invoice form in Project management and accounting module , you can create a customer invoice to bill to an intercompany customer. As the customer is intercompany, there is a legal entity (LE) associated with that customer. When posting the intercompany customer invoice, a pending vendor invoice is created in the customer’s LE with the same lines from the customer invoice.

You can see calculated Sales taxes via Sales tax button

Issue

If you try to add more lines, it will be added with line number 1, and sales taxes won't be added with this newly added line. Note: If you delete any line here and then you add more, it works fine.

This bug leads to missed taxes transactions in all TaxUncommitted, TmpTaxWorkTrans, and eventually in TaxTrans tables

Fix

Create an extension class with the following code

[ExtensionOf(classStr(ProjIntercompanyCustomerInvoiceCreator))]
final class myProjIntercompanyCustomerInvoiceCreator_Extension
{
    
    public CustInvoiceTable createInvoice()
    {
        // we need to increase the next line number to avoid duplicates in case when new lines added to initially created ones
        lineNum             = this.myGetNextLineNum();

        custInvoiceTable    = next createInvoice();

        if(origTransList.elements())
        {
            TaxUncommitted::deleteForDocumentHeader(tableNum(CustInvoiceTable), custInvoiceTable.RecId);
        }
        
        return custInvoiceTable;
    }


    public LineNum myGetNextLineNum()
    {
        CustInvoiceLine custInvoiceLine;
        

        select maxof(lineNum) from custInvoiceLine
            where custInvoiceLine.ParentRecId == custInvoiceTable.RecId;

        return custInvoiceLine.LineNum + 1;
    }

}

Check your data via SQL

 Sometimes we need to check or validate some data in a dev box. The fastest way to do that is to run a query directly in MS SQL management studio.

For example, I have hundreds legal entities and want to know in which of them I have some Purchase orders. Voila:

select
dataareaid as Company, count(RECID) as 'Number of PO'
from PURCHTABLE
group by DATAAREAID
having count(RECID) > 1

How to create a new custom financial dimension value with description and other parameters via X++

User can add values manually to Custom dimension attribute type only. For all other backing entities it should go via standard table creation, say, new CustTable record, etc.

The easiest way to create a new Custom list dimension value is to use the standard service DimensionValueService as follows. Say, you need to create a new value by using _newProjCategory record fields.

DimensionValueService dimensionValueService = new DimensionValueService();
DimensionValueContract dimensionValueContract = new DimensionValueContract();
dimensionValueContract.parmValue(_newProjCategory.Id);
dimensionValueContract.parmDimensionAttribute(myDimHelper::getProjCategoryAttribute);
dimensionValueContract.parmDescription(_newProjCategory.Name);

dimensionValueService.createDimensionValue(dimensionValueContract);

It creates the display value as its description.