by Alex | Apr 6, 2021 | Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations
In the past, I have talked about that there are two separate licensing mechanisms in D365FO: entry point and privilege based. I have recently found that there is a third… the Dynamics 365 Licensing Guide itself. Dynamics 365 Licensing Guide This is an almost 60...
by Alex | Apr 2, 2021 | Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations
I have used the MetadataSupport library in X++ to help get metadata information for tables, menu items, and data entities in the past. I have also used it for enums but recently found an issue when dealing with enum extensions. I initially wrote the logic to get enum...
by Alex | Mar 29, 2021 | Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations
One security issue I’ve seen in D365FO, especially from those that have updated from AX 2012, is the idea that company/legal entity restrictions only need to be applied to the System User role and no other roles assigned to a user. What is the rationale behind...
by Alex | Mar 15, 2021 | Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations
There are many instances where you need to know exactly which table field is tied to an entry on a form: Interested in applying table field level security Want to turn on some type of audit trail tracking So how do we go about doing this? Right Click -> Form...
by Alex | Mar 10, 2021 | Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations
After taking a little hiatus from writing I have a backlog of things that I need to catch up on for my blog. The first is a scenario I ran into recently while helping clients and has to deal with X++ and .NET performance and memory usage differences. Some Background...
by Alex | Jan 25, 2021 | Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations
Since I’ve written multiple posts on this topic in the past, I thought it would be a good idea to combine the different posts and create a place that I can continually update with the latest information. So going forward, while I will still have individual posts...
