Product identifier not found while barcode scanning in the Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations - Warehousing

If you experience an issue with the barcode scanning in the Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations - Warehousing and see an error message the Product identifier not found as presented below

You must have forgotten to turn on the Scanning flag on the barcode itself for that item.

Go to Product information management > Products > Released products > Manage inventory tab on the Action pane > Bar codes button in the Warehouse section

Switch to the General tab for the selected bar code and switch on Scanning flag.

Tips for Planning optimization in Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations

With new Planning optimization in Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations that will be available in the first half of the 2020, you would probably need to think about the following:

1. Planning optimization service will be a black box. You will not be able to extend and customize calculations in the Planning optimization micro-service
2. You would be able to customize the Pre-processing logic of the master data
3. You would be able to customize the Post-processing logic of the master data
4. Currently there are no extra charges announced for the improvement. Planning optimization is included in the current license. So, if you have an access to the Master planning functions (MRP), you will be able to get an access to the Planning optimization feature.
5. Future additional planning functionality might come with additional charge.
6. Planning is triggered add-hoc during office hours, but Planning optimization service can be cancelled while Planning is progress and no data corruptions occur. 
7. Environment add-in needs to be installed through Dynamics Lifecycle Services (LCS) prior to using Planning optimization service.
8. Standard planning capabilities (MRP) will be deprecated. 
9. The sooner you start Planning optimization utilization (including testing, investigating different scenarios), the sooner you will find out all possible gaps for the real-time Planning optimization utilization.

Credit management in Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations

Within Platform Update 33 (PU33) new Credit management feature has been added. In order to activate this feature, navigate to the Feature management workspace, find Credit management feature on the list and click Enable now button.

Once you enable it and reload the page, new forms would have been added to the Credit and collections module.

All newly added forms are highlighted as Favorite on the screen below.

Turn on Business events in Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations (Platform version : Update31)

You must have been determined that business events parameters form is missing in the System administration module in the 10.0.7 (Platform version : Update31).

So in this version, you can activate Business events through SQL using the script below:

UPDATE [dbo].[BUSINESSEVENTSPARAMETERS]SET [ENABLED] = 1
,[PROCESSORTHREADS] = 1
,[ENDPOINTRETRYCOUNT] = 3
,[BUNDLESIZE] = 50
,[ENDPOINTSPEREVENT] = 10
GO

Do not forget to restart IIS and batch service once the script is executed.

In the 10.0.9 (Platform version : Update33) business events parameters back

How to provision user on the deployed Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations

You might notice that Provisioning shortcut is missing on the desktop of the deployed Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations environment.

To provision your user, use the following path:

K:\AosService\PackagesLocalDirectory\bin

In this opened folder you can find .exe file that is called AdminUserProvisioning.
Run that file, enter required information and wait until it's completed.

Now, you can log in to the deployed environment under provisioned user.

How to enable navigation bar in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations

If you would to get rid of Search and would like to display Navigation bar instead, you will need to follow the steps below:
Before:

After:

Go to System administration > Setup > Client performance option 
Turn on Enable legacy navigation bar flag

Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations AOT Browser

If you would like to open and browse the contents of the AOT (Application Object Tree) from the UI, you can use the following link:
https://github.com/arbelatech/aotbrowser#what-is-the-aot-browser

Once you install a deployable package, you will be able to see new form located here:
Common > Common > AOT browser.

Next step is to run "Populate AOT objects" and wait until it's completed. After a while, you will be able to perform the following:

1. Search/Filter

• By AOT name or by label name
• By object type

1. Open from form personalization screen
2. Open from data entities form
3. Open in table browser (tables/views)
4. View extensions inline
5. View source code
6. Jump to references
7. View label value instead of label id