WorthKnowing: Adding system fields in data entity

Hi Folks, 

System fields like CreatedBy, CreatedDateTime, ModifiedBy, and ModifiedDateTime appear in a D365FO entity’s metadata, but they don’t show up in exports or OData. This happens because system fields aren’t automatically exposed through the staging table.

To make them available, create wrapper fields with different names—such as CreatedBy1, CreatedDateTime1, ModifiedBy1, and ModifiedDateTime1—and map them to the system fields.

Steps

- Add the new fields to the staging table or its extension.

- Add them to the data entity and map each one to the corresponding system field.

- Build and synchronize the project.

- Export or call the entity via OData to confirm the fields appear.

This simple approach ensures audit fields are available for integrations, exports, and reporting.

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[Solved] The ‘VSProjectPackage’ package did not load correctly. UDE VS setup issue

Hi Folks, 

After configuring Visual Studio for UDE development, when accessing anything in Dynamics 365 menu, I was getting below error, 

Error message: 

The ‘VSProjectPackage’ package did not load correctly.

The problem may have been caused by a configuration change or by the installation of another extension. You can get more information by examining the file
C:\Users\deepak.agarwal\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\VisualStudio\17.0_0dc3asdf9\ActivityLog.xml.

Restarting Visual Studio could help resolve this issue.

Solution: 

Note: Please save and work and close Visual Studio before performing these steps. 

Its most likely you didn't installed the visual studio properly, check and install below missing component. You can do this by from

Control Panel > Uninstall program > Select Visual studio 2022 > Click on change on top

Now check for these three component, 

1. Under Workloads >.NET desktop development 

2. Navigate to Individual Component >  Search for Model and select Model SDK

3. Within induvial component , now search for DGML and select 'DGML editor'

and with these three component modify/install Visual studio. It may take few minutes to download and install on your visual studio. 

Once installation is successfully completed, you must be able to access all the options from Dynamics 365 menu. 

Cheers!!!

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