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Recently, Microsoft released their eCommerce solution. I got started by looking at how to do a bit of development locally. The guide is here https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/commerce/e-commerce-extensibility/setup-dev-environment One of the first steps to development is to clone Microsoft github repo . That's fairly easy to do. But, the next question I had was, “how do I do my development in my own private version control and continue to pull Microsoft's latest releases?”. I don't want to manually merge folders and deal with painful files. I am not an expert in git and still have a lot to learn. However, below is the approach we have taken and will test out over the coming weeks to see how it works for us. Go to Azure DevOps (my choice of version control) and Import the repository. Click on Import repository. Give it the github URL and name.   After a minute it should show an Import Successful message. Using git bash, clone your Azure DevOps repo by t...

Respect to all those POS developers. It really requires some dedication and focus to be a POS developer. This is an example of something I would have not figured out without my colleagues. We were working on a development project and we struggled to make sense out of the error. The error we got was complaining about the a method to validate the Unit of measure and Quantity. I was sure the object was not null and I had passed the right thing to it. Unit of measure and quantity fields were populated correctly. The modification was overriding the price. System.NullReferenceException was unhandled by user code    HResult=-2147467261    Message=Object reference not set to an instance of an object.    Source=Microsoft.Dynamics.Commerce.Runtime.Workflow    StackTrace:         at Microsoft.Dynamics.Commerce.Runtime.Workflow.CartWorkflowHelper.ValidateCartLineUnitOfMeasureAndQuantity (RequestContext context, Cart newCa...

I will start by pointing you to a good article Andreas Hofmann from Microsoft has written. It steps you through what you need to extend a transactional table in the Retail Channel and bring that back to HQ via the P Job. https://dynamicsnotes.com/extending-a-transactional-retail-channel-table-with-additional-data-hq-x-table-extension-cdx-extension-table-crt-data-service/ Now to summerise the issue I faced recently (being a retail rookie). Following the blog post I created a custom Int64 field on the RetailTransactionSalesTrans. However, when I ran the P job it failed with this error. “Failed to convert parameter value from a String to a Int64” I did some investigation by trying to find out what it is actually doing. Essentially the job will do an outer join to your custom extension table. Even though your custom field is 0 by default. You won’t be creating an extension record for every single transaction record. The p job will do an outer join between RetailTransactionSalesTrans to you...

I am using version 8 platform update 15. Since the POS development is locked out and extensions only is allowed. There are some limitations and a number of objects are not accessible. I was trying to navigate to the customer search and allow the user to select a customer and return to the calling form. This was very challenging. One possible solution I found is to use Global variables. I used the window object. To do this, declare the window object as per screenshot. And then just set your object : eg. window.MyVarName = WhatEverObject; To get the value just invert it. You can see how I have the customer object in debug. Credit to one of my colleagues who suggested this solution.