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Curious Case of the locked fields in D365 – Quote ID example

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So, I struggled some time in trying to make something just work as it was supposed to work. And for no conscious reason, I was able to figure out why.

As to why my Quote wouldn’t save and auto generate the usual Quote ID? It kept asking me to enter it!

Problem

OOB, Quote ID is locked and is auto-generated when you save the record.
newForm

Instead, I got this
cantSave

And asks me to enter Quote in the field again.
enterQuote

Ideally, if you have a required field locked, you can save it and the form won’t force you.
fieldIsLocked

But, nothing would work.

After much hassle, I finally noticed the culprit lying in plain sight. Let’s look at why this was happening.

Culprit

This happened because the same field was on the Business Process Flow and was unlocked
quoteOnProcess

That was the issue. As a part of the requirement, I had put it there, but either didn’t lock it or shouldn’t be there.

I just removed it since it wasn’t a big deal and things were fine now.
savedQuote

Hope this helps you! 🙂

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Discount Settings for D365 Sales Line Items – Line Items or Per Unit?

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For Line Item entities Opportunity Products, Quotes Products, Order Products or Invoice Products, you can chose what type of Discount you want to give out.

This is a simple Organization-wise setting  that you’ll need to set to define how Discount should be given on the Line Item level.

System Setting

Navigate to System Settings and under Sales tab, find this setting
lineItemSetting

You can chose either between Line Item or Per Unit.
options

Discount Behavior

Line Item

Now, when the Discount method is set to Line Item, the Discount value will be given to each of the Line Item regardless of the Quantity
lineItemCalculations

In the above example, the Discount $50 is applied to the entire Line Item entry of 2 quantities of the commodity of the price $1200 is

2 x 1200 = $2400 – $50 = $2350 ($50 Discount given to the Extended Amount)

Per Unit

And in case of Per Unit, the Discount amount of $50 is given to each Quantity in the Line Item
perUnitCalculation

In the above example, the $50 Discount is given to the quantity of commodity of worth $1200 each. i.e.

2 x $1150 ($50 Discount given to each Price Per Unit amount) = $2300

Hence, it vital what setting you want to use while giving Discount to Line Items in D365 Sales

Hope this helps! 🙂

 

Dynamics 365 Solutions History – Keep track of your deployments

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As you might have observed, newer updates to D365 are bringing out vital features which were much needed in Dynamics 365 are finally rolling out.

One such feature is Solution History!

As you can see in your SiteMap, you’ll see Solutions History has been added
sitemap

It gives you a summary what solutions were imported, exported or deleted.

summary

Where does this come from?

If you look at the Default Solution, this is coming from Virtual Entity Data Provider
dataprovider

Availability

My observation is that this is available for organizations from 9.1.0.1471 onward.

version

If you want to learn more about my Cloning and patching Solution, check my blog here – Using ‘Clone a Patch’ & ‘Clone Solution’ in D365 Solutions

Hope this helps.