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RetailCdxSeedData class – Create custom tables mapping in Retail scheduler automatically

In this post, I would like to draw your attention to RetailCdxSeedData class.

The RetailCdxSeedData class is called when you trigger the following option in Dynamics 365 for Operations

Retail and commerce->Headquarters setup -> Retail scheduler ->Initialise retail scheduler 

If you have added some custom tables that need to be synced  between your HQ and Channel Database using CDX (Commerce Data eXchange), then you should customize the RetailCdxSeedData class to include the custom tables. If you do not not customize the RetailCdxSeedData class, you will need to do the CDX table mapping manually in all the environments and in every DB refresh and increasing the chances of missing out some fields if you have a lot of tables.

Please refer the following link from Microsoft on how you can customise this class with an extension.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/unified-operations/retail/dev-itpro/cdx-extensibility

Hope this helps

– Hitesh Manglani

Cannot create a record in Global address book (DirPartyTable). The record already exists

This article is the outcome of a shared session with credit to my friend Vishal Kohli .

StoreMaster

 

While creating a new store in the store master in Dyn365FO, you may face the following error.

“Cannot create a record in Global address book (DirPartyTable). The record already exists.”

The issue is that the operating number keyed is already existing in the system. Therefore you need to make sure you key in a number that does not already exist. The error message can be a little confusing in this regard, which is why I thought this warrants a post.

Note -You are most likely to face this issue when your operating unit number sequence is configured as Manual.

Hope this helps!!

-Hitesh Manglani and Vishal Kohli.

 

MPOS AAD changes – The reply address does not match the reply addresses configured for the application

If you are on Dynamics 365 for Operations 7.1 and planning to uptake the latest set of binary hotfixes, expect to see the above error when trying to activate MPOS.

Sergey from Microsoft has described the change that is triggered by binary hotfix KB4051347 in below link in great detail. Just one note though if you are on 7.1 you will not find the event ID 40619 in the event viewer. Its only available 7.2 onwards.

https://community.dynamics.com/ax/b/axforretail/archive/2017/11/06/mpos-aad-changes-in-monthly-update-4

In case you are interested to know more about these changes the below link is a great video that describes the differences between ADAL versus MSAL –https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2017/P4031

-Hitesh Manglani

Dynamics 365 for Operations and TLS 1.2

In my first Dynamics 365 for Operations project we had to implement an integration between the Azure hosted Dynamics 365 for Operations Retail Server and an on premise web api server (for more information on the overall Retail Topology do refer this link MPOS Technical Architecture).

The integration worked fine in our Development environment but when promoted to UAT sandbox the integration broke with the following error

Unable to read data from the transport connection: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host.

and initially we could not understand why, after some investigation we could find out the cause being that Dynamics 365 for Operations configuration enforced a TLS 1.2 protocol while the destination server supported only TLS 1.0 and 1.1.

The following resources were very helpful to arrive at the conclusion

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/unified-operations/retail/retail-peripherals-overview

https://blogs.perficient.com/microsoft/2016/04/tsl-1-2-and-net-support/

Last but not the least, an excellent resource was the following link by John Louros.

https://www.johnlouros.com/blog/disabling-cryptographic-protocols-for-pci-compliance

In this blog, John has provided a nifty console application which was extremely helpful in understanding what was going wrong in the integration, by trying all combinations of TLS protocols between the source and destination it lets you know which protocol is supported and which one is not.

 

-Hitesh Manglani

 

 

The service is not provisioned for the same tenant

If you have downloaded an Dynamics 365 for Operations / AX7 VM for Development especially for Retail do have a look at this article

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/unified-operations/dev-itpro/dev-tools/access-instances

Unless you do the steps mentioned in the Retail Configuration section in this link you will get errors like :

In MPOS trying to activate would give an error – The service is not provisioned for the same tenant. User is hitting a retail server that does not belong to the same tenant as the Activation account.

Also if you try to Associate User Identity with a worker in AX it will result in an error like the service is not reachable.

Note – You need to install KB3170424 if you are facing this issue in a LCS hosted VM.

 

-Hitesh Manglani

Problem uninstalling MPOS or any other application

Sometimes I have experienced an error when trying to uninstall MPOS or any other program for that matter.

MPOS uninstall

Corrupted registry keys are one of the reasons for such an error.

The following utility from Microsoft helps to cleanly uninstall MPOS  or any other program not uninstalling in such a situation.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17588/fix-problems-that-block-programs-from-being-installed-or-removed

In addition you may also needed to follow these steps to make sure all MPOS packages are removed (especially when multiple user profiles are setup)

  1. Run the following powershell script as Admin user. (Note that you can run the Powershell command by loading it the command prompt by executing powershell command as shown below)

Get-AppxPackage *pos* – allusers

Uninstall

2.  Note the PackageUserInformation in the above results. It will list the users for which the package has been provisioned. The package can then be removed using the following script.

Get-AppxPackage *pos*  | Remove-AppxPackage

Note – You will need to execute the above command for each user by logging in as that particular user in command prompt. For instance lets consider that there are two users admin and user1. You will need to execute the powershell twice, once as admin and once as user1, by using “Run as a different user” option by right clicking the command prompt icon

Run as a different user menu

Hope this helps

-Hitesh Manglani

[AX 2012 R3 / Dynamics 365 for Operations -Retail]: Viewing events from MPOS in Event Viewer

This post is based on a conversation in Dynamics AX Community (link attached later in the post)

 

Events from the MPOS in AX 2012 R3 can be found in Event Viewer here:

Application and Services Logs -> Microsoft -> Windows -> AppHost -> AppTracing.

activate the event log using Event Viewer.

  1. Navigate to Application and Services Logs -> Microsoft -> Windows -> AppHost.
  2. Right click AppHost and Select View -> Show Analytic and Debug Logs

Events from the MPOS in AX 7 / Dynamics 365 for Operations can be found in Event Viewer here:

Event Viewer: Applications and Services Logs->Microsoft->Dynamics->Commerce-ModernPos.- Admin, Debug, Operational (where Operational would contain errors and Debug is by default disabled but can be Enabled if needed.)

 

Please visit the source of this post at this link

for more information.

A simple customization in MPOS (Blank Operation) with Dynamics 365 for Operations

Note – This article is applicable upto Dynamics 365 for Operations- 7.1 i.e. not applicable to 7.2 and above

Hi All,

 

Blank Operation as you may already be aware enable you to extend Microsoft Dynamics Retail for POS by adding custom logic that can be triggered from the Retail POS Register buttons. The way to implement Blank Operations in MPOS  is different from Enterprise POS as MPOS is a modern app as compared to EPOS which is a windows forms based app.

So lets explore a very simple customization i.e. we want to open a URL on triggering a button from MPOS.

1. We would need to start with AX to add a button to the layout of MPOS. If you do not want to disturb the standard layouts its better to copy one of the existing layouts and then modify it using the designer. Please note the designer only opens in Internet Explorer so it will save you time by not trying to open it in other browsers e.g Chrome

<Update > If you can trust third party extension, you can install ClickOnce  for Google Chrome extension to be able to open the designer in Chrome</Update>

2. Next we need to add this layout to the Store where we intend to use it, in my case I have choosen Houston Store

3. We need to modify the screen layout in the worker setup.

Next run jobs 1060,1070, 1090 to push the worker,store configuration and the new screen layout respectively to Channel DB.

Lets run MPOS SDK code from Visual Studio and check if the changes are reflected.

As you can see we have a new button in MPOS which can be used to invoke custom logic. Currently on triggering the button gives us a message “The blank operation identifier is invalid”

Now make the following modifications in the code.

In POS.ViewModels->OperationsMap.ts add the following line of code to register a new handler for the custom blank operation

Operations.BlankOperationHandler.registerBlankOperationHandler(“CustomOpenURL”, new Operations.OpenURLOperationHandler());

Next we need to provide the definition for the handler, to do this headover to Pos.Core->Operations->Add a new typescript file say CustomBlankOperations.ts and paste following code.

module Commerce.Operations {

“use strict”;

export class OpenURLOperationHandler extends OperationHandlerBase {

/**

* Executes the OpenURL operation.

*

* @param { IBlankOperationOptions } options The operation options.

* @return {IAsyncResultIOperationResult>} The async result containing the operation result, if any.

*/

public execute(options: IBlankOperationOptions): IAsyncResultIOperationResult> {

// sanitize options

options = options || { operationId: undefined, operationData: undefined };

var asyncQueue: AsyncQueue = new AsyncQueue();

var asyncResult: VoidAsyncResult = new VoidAsyncResult(null);

var url = String(options);

asyncQueue.enqueue((): IAsyncResultICancelableResult> => {

Windows.System.Launcher.launchUriAsync(

new Windows.Foundation.Uri(url)

);

return asyncResult;

});

return asyncQueue.run();

}

}

}

On running the modified app you should be able to successfully run the blank operation and see the web page in this case http://www.bing.com opened in your browser.

So hopefully this exercise will whet your appetite and for a deeper dive to more MPOS customizations I would suggest the following resources to try out in AX 7-

1. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/axsa/archive/2015/02/17/extensibility-in-dynamics-ax-2012-r3-cu8-crt-retailserver-mpos-part-1.aspx

2. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/axsa/archive/2015/05/20/extensibility-in-dynamics-ax-2012-r3-cu8-crt-retailserver-mpos-part-2-new-data-entity.aspx

 

hope this helps

-Hitesh Manglani

This post was first published at http://hiteshgoldeneye-techtalk.blogspot.sg/2015/12/a-simple-customization-in-mpos-blank.html

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