Field notes on Dynamics 365 Commerce & Retail
Practical fixes and field notes on Dynamics 365 Commerce & Retail — MPOS, CRT extensions, Retail Server, Cloud POS, and hardware stations. Written from real implementations, not documentation.
Building the MPOS solution can fail with: It reads like a project configuration issue, but the actual cause — confirmed with a colleague hitting the same error …
Read article →> Based on the 7.1 Retail SDK, but likely applicable to later releases unless this has since been fixed. A customer reported several transactions as "missing," …
Read article →On a MSDyn365FO 8.1 Microsoft-hosted VM, you don't get admin rights. Open the Cloud POS solution from the Retail SDK under those conditions and you'll hit an er…
Read article →The class runs whenever this option is triggered in Dynamics 365 for Operations: Retail and commerce → Headquarters setup → Retail scheduler → Initialize retai…
Read article →> Based on the 7.1 Retail SDK. Renaming or refactoring a Commerce Runtime (CRT) entity that inherits from — say, from to — breaks the build of your Retail Se…
Read article →Three ways to surface a custom error message in MPOS, depending on where the error condition is detected. From resources.json MPOS's standard error handlers exp…
Read article →Building an integration between MPOS and a CRM system via Retail Server / CRT meant deserializing JSON REST responses into Cclasses. Writing those classes and t…
Read article →Preparing release notes for a client means listing every X++ and binary hotfix that went into a release — and LCS has no feature to export that information in b…
Read article →> This only shows up on certain POS models. I don't have a full list, but it reproduced reliably on an HP RP9 POS running the D365FO 7.1 Retail SDK. When scroll…
Read article →Hosting the Demo VM in our company's own data centre, we hit: One common suggestion online is to enable "Enable 32-Bit Applications" on the app pool. That didn'…
Read article →A quick note on how combined date/time fields work in AX / Dynamics 365 for Operations. For the full breakdown of date and time field types in AX, see Date/time…
Read article →After building the Retail SDK and uploading the installer to a D365FO environment, installation failed with: The MPOS installation error logs had more detail: T…
Read article →If browsing your database properties in SQL Server Management Studio throws: it's time for an update. !SQL Server Properties Error Go to Tools → Check for Updat…
Read article →On a Dynamics 365 for Operations 7.1 implementation, we hit MPOS switching to offline mode at random. Normally, offline mode is either triggered manually or kic…
Read article →For anyone just starting to explore Dynamics 365 for Operations Retail, here are the resources that were most useful early on. 1. The Retail landing page on doc…
Read article →A common report from users working with a downloaded VHD of Dynamics 365 for Operations: SQL Server Management Studio won't connect. The fix is simpler than the…
Read article →Co-written with Vishal Kohli, based on a shared troubleshooting session. !Store Master When creating a new store in the Store Master in Dynamics 365 for Finance…
Read article →If you're on Dynamics 365 for Operations 7.1 and uptake the latest binary hotfixes, expect MPOS activation to start failing with: Sergey from Microsoft covers t…
Read article →> As of 7.3, this handbook has been superseded by the official docs: Retail developer documentation home page. This post is a republish of an earlier article ba…
Read article →Three things in one post: how to run a test job in AX7, how the operator differs from AX 2012, and a job that saves you from manually editing Retail Screen Lay…
Read article →> If you're on a Dynamics 365 for Operations VM, this isn't the issue you're looking for — follow the Provisioning the administrator section of the access-insta…
Read article →On an early Dynamics 365 for Operations project, we needed to integrate the Azure-hosted Retail Server with an on-premise web API (see MPOS Technical Architectu…
Read article →If you've downloaded a Dynamics 365 for Operations / AX7 VM for development — especially for Retail — start with Microsoft's access-instances guide. Skip the Re…
Read article →Occasionally you'll hit an error trying to uninstall MPOS — or any other program, for that matter. !MPOS uninstall error Corrupted registry keys are one of the …
Read article →MPOS logs its events to different Event Viewer locations depending on which version you're running. AX 2012 R3 By default, some of these logs are hidden. To tur…
Read article →> Applies up to Dynamics 365 for Operations 7.1. Blank Operations in MPOS work differently from 7.2 onwards. Blank Operations let you extend Retail POS by addin…
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