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Export Message Creation in D365FO Electronic Reporting: Part III – The Mapping
In this final part of the mapping, we’re going to link our declared and transformed objects with the model and then check if the data we are getting is what we were expecting. There are two ways to link nodes: either directly with the ‘Bind’ button or using the formula UI ‘edit’. Let’s start with…
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Export Message Creation in D365FO Electronic Reporting: Part II – The Mapping
In this second part, we’re going to see how to create the mapping. This is the most technical part, and while we’re going to keep it simple, it sometimes requires knowledge of the system architecture and access to Visual Studio, or the help of someone with a technical profile. I’ve decided to split the mapping…
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Export Message Creation in D365FO Electronic Reporting: Part I – The Model
In this series, we’re going to learn how to create a simple export message with Electronic Reporting (ER) from scratch, without extending any generic message from Microsoft. The goal is to generate a txt file containing filtered data from customer invoices. There are three kinds of nodes or steps involved in creating an export message:…
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About safety of Electronic Reports (ER) from unknown origins in D365FO
ER is a powerful tool with access to most AOT objects, making it theoretically unsafe if the origin of the ER is unknown. Data transformation, along with data insertion or retrieval from the database, occurs in the mapping, potentially making it the most dangerous node. Additionally, because a mapping can be directly created within the…
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Converting ER Lookup Codes to External Codes: A Step-by-Step Guide
In this blog post, I’ll show you how to change lookup data in Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations into internal enumerations set up by users, accessible through the standard UI for each legal entity. Specifically we’ll look at how to change tax codes from the TaxTable into external codes, like ‘VAT’, ‘Green taxes’, and…