Dynamics 365 Finance and SCM Delete
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Overview
You can use the Dynamics 365 Finance and SCM Delete Snap to delete the user data from a specific entity.
Snap Type
Dynamics 365 Finance and SCM Delete Snap is a Write-type Snap.
Prerequisites
A valid Finance and SCM Access Token Account or OAuth2 Account with the required permissions.
Support for Ultra Pipelines
Works in Ultra Pipelines.
Limitations
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 Delete Snap displays the following errors when we run the 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 |
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Input | Document
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| Requires the data that you want to delete. |
Output | Document
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| The status message of the deleted data. |
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:
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 | |
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Label*
Default Value: Dynamics 365 Finance and SCM Delete | 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.
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Entity*
Default Value: N/A | String/Expression | Specify the OData entity object. | |
Cross company
Default Value: Deselected | Checkbox | Select this checkbox to delete record (apart from default company) for an entity. | |
Primary key* | Use this field set to specify the primary key that uniqely identifies the rows. | ||
Key
Default Value: N/A | String/Expression | Specify or select the primary key from which you want to delete the record.
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Value
Default Value: N/A | String/Expression | Specify the value of the key for which you want to delete the record. | |
Batch size
Default Value: 1 | Integer/Expression | Specify the batch size to delete the records in batches from the application. | |
Timeout (seconds)
Default Value: 300 | Integer | Specify the timeout to determine whether the connection is alive and also timeout while waiting for response through socket. | |
Number of retries
Default Value: 0 | Integer/Expression | Specify the maximum number of attempts to be made to receive a response. The number of retries are disabled if the value is 0. | |
Retry interval (seconds)
Default Value: 1 | Integer/Expression | Specify the amount of time in seconds 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 | String/Expression | Specify the key for the HTTP header. | |
Value
Default Value: N/A application/json;odata.metadata=full | String/Expression | Specify the value for the HTTP header. | |
Snap Execution
Default Value: Validate & Execute | Dropdown list | Select one of the following three modes in which the Snap executes:
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Troubleshooting
Error | Reason | Resolution |
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| Requests exceeded the limit of 6000 over the time window of 300 seconds. | Decrease the batch size and retry. |
| Too many requests sent to Dynamics 365 Finance and SCM endpoint. | The Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and SCM related Snaps, include |
Examples
Deleting the User Record from the Application
This example pipeline demonstrates how to delete records in the Finance & Operations application.
Step 1: Configure the Mapper Snap with the values you want to pass to the Finance and SCM Delete Snap to delete that specific record.
Step 2: Configure the Primary key with the values from the upstream Mapper Snap to enable the deletion of the record.
Step 3: Validate the Snap. On validation, the Snap displays the deleted status of the specified record.