Product documentation
| Question: | What is the relation between the product’s sales price and the layout price field? |
| Answer: | There is no direct relation between any price field in the system and the price field to be shown on the result card. Using the field search queries for a product item, you can retrieve the sales price (as a list price) or the purchase price from the released product for example. For one specific price field you can emphasize it as the price field (including a price currency symbol) on the result card. |
| Question: | Is it possible to display the result of a calculated field on the result card? |
| Answer: |
Yes, you can add fields to the layout definitions that are calculated at the moment the search result is fetched. This can be used for information such as On-hand inventory and Margin. A few calculated fields are made available, but almost any needed calculation can be added by a developer. |
| Question: | Can we also use the regular column filters in combination with Product Search? |
| Answer: | This is not supported as part of the solution. When opening the Product search results in a listpage, the regular column filters can be used to further filter the result. However, we advise against it, as it is not possible to use a combination of Product search and regular column filters for saved searches on tiles (or lists/links on the workspace). The Product search filters are the only ones that are applied for the tile and the count on the tile will represent that. Taking the additional regular column filters into account would heavily impact performance and is therefore not supported. We highly recommend to handle any additional filtering needs via Product search (especially if the required filter would be recurring), as it is both supported and much quicker, so adjustments to the Product search setup if needed make more sense. The regular column filters should only be used for occasional further filtering of Product search results on very rarely needed filters. |
| Question: | I got a message about an invalid expression during usage of Product Search? |
| Answer: |
Using the Product Search function a message appears:
On the tab General two buttons are available: Search layout definitions and Search filter definitions. If necessary, please first delete the definition with the named property and publish the definitions again. |
| Question: | Does changing the category attribute value on the category need an update to Azure Search? |
| Answer: | Changing the value of the category attribute values do not need a publish of the definitions again. However, an update of the search data (both scheme and data) is required here. |
| Question: | I get a message saying there are missing search layout definition fields? |
| Answer: |
When a message appears about missing search layout definition fields, then the field DYSASBLayoutDefinitionId is empty. The solution is using a default layout definition containing ID and Description, as a fall back layout definition. This layout definition will be generated automatically during the update of the search data, so there is no real definition available. |
| Question: | How to disable the default Product Search form during entering an item number? |
| Answer: |
Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations behavior is to open the default Product Search form automatically, when you are leaving the item number field during a non-complete line input. Using the Azure Product Search function, this behavior is probably not wanted:
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| Question: | When trying to access the details of a product from the Released products search form, I get a message that I don't have the required permissions. |
| Answer: | This means that you do not have the security access rights to the (standard MS) details form the system is trying to open. Please contact your system administrator to assign additional (standard MS) rights to your account. |
To disable this behavior, you can switch off the Trade item search function within your configuration key settings.