Dynamics 365 Finance and SCM Create

 

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Overview

You can use Dynamics 365 Finance and SCM Create Snap to create new users in the Dynamics 365 Finance and SCM application for a specific entity.


Snap Type

The Dynamics 365 Finance and SCM Create Snap is a Write-type Snap that creates a user in the application.

Prerequisites

  • A valid Finance and SCM Access Token Account and OAuth2 Account with the required permissions.

  • You must define and know the mandatory attributes for different entities in the Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations application to create records.

Support for Ultra Pipelines

 Works in Ultra Pipelines. 

Limitations

  • The Snap does not always fail when you pass data for existing primary keys.

  • The Snap does not support certain Unicode, Special, and UTF-8 byte characters due to the API limitation.

  • Based on your environment configurations, when the Batch size increases, the Snap might fail because of an API limitation and displays the following error message:
    Number of requests exceeded the limit of 6000 over the time window of 300 seconds

    Refer to Service protection API limits - Finance & Operations for more information.
    Workaround: You must decrease the batch size and retry.

  • The Snap fails and updates the error view with the error message from API when you pass invalid values for a mandatory field.

Known Issues

The Microsoft Dynamics 365  Finance and SCM Create Snap displays the following errors when we run batch process with the error view enabled.

  • 500 ( Internal Server Error)

  • Socket timeout error

  • Read timed out error

Workaround: Increase the Timeout value to 500 or more and also decrease the batch size, along with the default retry properties.

Snap Views

Type

Format

Number of Views

Examples of Upstream and Downstream Snaps

Description

Type

Format

Number of Views

Examples of Upstream and Downstream Snaps

Description

Input 

Document

 

  • Min: 0

  • Max: 1

  • Mapper

Requires user data as a JSON document.

Output

Document

 

  • Min: 1

  • Max: 1

  • Mapper

  • Copy

  • Union

Writes the new user information for an entity.

Error

Error handling is a generic way to handle errors without losing data or failing the Snap execution. You can handle the errors that the Snap might encounter when running the pipeline by choosing one of the following options from the When errors occur list under the Views tab:

  • Stop pipeline Execution: Stops the current pipeline execution if the Snap encounters an error.

  • Discard Error Data and Continue: Ignores the error, discards that record, and continues with the remaining records.

  • Route Error Data to Error View: Routes the error data to an error view without stopping the Snap execution.

Learn more about Error handling in Pipelines.

Snap Settings

  • Asterisk ( * ): Indicates a mandatory field.

  • Suggestion icon (): Indicates a list that is dynamically populated based on the configuration.

  • Expression icon ( ): Indicates the value is an expression (if enabled) or a static value (if disabled). Learn more about Using Expressions in SnapLogic.

  • Add icon ( ): Indicates that you can add fields in the field set.

  • Remove icon ( ): Indicates that you can remove fields from the field set.

  • Upload icon ( ): Indicates that you can upload files.

Field Name

Field Type

Description

Field Name

Field Type

Description

Label*

 

Default Value: Dynamics 365 Finance and SCM Create
Example: F & SCM Create

String

Specify a unique name for the Snap. You can modify this to be more specific, especially if you have more than one of the same Snap in your pipeline.

 

Entity*

 

Default Value: N/A
Example: People

String/Expression

Specify the OData entity object.

Cross company

Default Value: Deselected

Checkbox

Select this checkbox to create record (apart from default company) for an entity.

Batch size

 

Default Value: 1
Example: 100

Integer/Expression

Specify the batch size to create a number of users in a batch.

Timeout (seconds)

 

Default Value: 300
Example: 100

Integer

Specify the timeout to determine whether the connection is alive and also the timeout when waiting for response through a socket.

Number of retries

 

Default Value: 0
Example: 5

Integer/Expression

Specify the maximum number of retries to be made to receive a response.

The number of retries are disabled if the value is 0.

Retry interval (seconds)

 

Default Value: 1
Example: 5

Integer/Expression

Specify in seconds, the time period between retry attempts.

HTTP header

Use this field set to define the HTTP key-value pairs to pass to the Dynamics 365 Finance and SCM instance.

Key

 

Default Value: N/A
Example: Accept

String/Expression

Specify the key for the HTTP header.

Value

 

Default Value: N/A
Example: 

application/json;odata.metadata=full

String/Expression

Specify the value for the HTTP header.

Snap Execution

 

Default Value: Validate & Execute
Example: Execute only

Dropdown list

Select one of the following three Snap execution modes:

  • Validate & Execute: Performs limited execution of the Snap, and generates a data preview during pipeline validation. Subsequently, performs full execution of the Snap (unlimited records) during pipeline runtime.

  • Execute only: Performs full execution of the Snap during pipeline execution without generating preview data.

  • Disabled: Disables the Snap and all Snaps that are downstream from it.

Troubleshooting

Error

Reason

Resolution

Error

Reason

Resolution

Number of requests exceeded the limit of 6000 over the time window of 300 seconds

More than 6000 requests were made in 300 seconds.

You must decrease the batch size and retry.

Too many Requests - 429

Too many requests sent to Dynamics 365 Finance and SCM endpoint.

All Snaps related to the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and SCM Snap include retry-after with <number of seconds> in the response header and automatically retry when they encounter a status 429 error. Wait for the retry to succeed.

REST API service endpoint returned error result: status code = 400

Reason phrase = BAD REQUEST, refer to the error_entity field in the error view document for more details.

You typically receive this message when:

  • The value in the HTTP entity field is structured as an expression; but the expression toggle is off.

  • The value in the (single- or multiple-file-upload) File Key fields is inaccurate or does not contain expressions although the Expression toggle is enabled.

  • The value in the (single- or multiple-file-upload) File Name fields contains special characters, such as (&, ^, and %).

Please check the values of Snap properties. Specifically:

  • Check whether your HTTP entity entry requires expressions. Update Snap settings as appropriate.

  • Check the value in the (single- or multiple-file-upload) File Key fields.

  • Check the value in the (single- or multiple-file-upload) Filename to be used fields.

Error 500

{"http_status_code": 500, "response_map": {"error_list": [{"message": "Request to token endpoint Sign in to your account failed for account \"/Tenantidshared/Azure Sharepoint Account\" of type \"SharePoint Online Account\""}]}}

Client secret is expired.

Generate new Client secret.

Error 401

Token is invalid

Provide a valid token and reauthorize the account.

Examples

Updating a New Attribute in the Existing Records

This example pipeline demonstrates how to add a record in the Finance and Operations endpoint:

Download this pipeline. 

Step 1: Configure the attributes you want to pass in the JSON Generator Snap under Edit JSON.

Step 2: Configure the Mapper Snap with the attributes you want to pass to create records.

Step 3: Select the entity in the Entity field for which you passed the values.

Step 4: Validate the Snap. On validation, the Dynamics 365 Finance and SCM Create Snap creates the record at the endpoint.

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