Product attribute search
by DynamicsAxTraining
The Product attribute extension facilitates the use and maintenance of products with attributes
The Product Attribute Search add-on significantly enhances daily productivity by enabling rapid, system-wide searches using product parameters such as attributes, engineering attributes, hierarchies, and categories.
For example, Users can instantly check on-hand quantities for products with specific dimensions (e.g., a 10mm diameter), find the correct product while creating an order line, identify customers who have purchased specific models, or analyze sales data by various product attributes.
Standard Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations allows you to add extensive product information without modifying the standard application. However, until now, the lack of robust search capabilities has prevented this functionality from being fully utilized.
With our add-on, you can extend your products with an unlimited number of attributes and search through hierarchies, categories, and attributes in a convenient and efficient way.
Key Benefits:
- Easy to Use: Works out-of-the-box once installed with no additional parameter setup required. Hierarchies, categories, and attributes become instantly available for searching on the form.
- Easy to Extend: Supports searching across more than 70 forms, including Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Inventory, Warehouse, Planning, and Production. Filters and columns can be added to any standard or custom form via UI configuration with no development required.
- Quick Search: Products are filtered instantly using the original form query and showing real-time data. Filters support multi-value lookup, ranges, wildcards, And\Or logic, cross-hierarchy and cross-category search, and attribute translation.
- Comprehensive Functionality: Includes "Search by Attributes", "Display Attributes", and "Create Product with Attributes", among many other enhancements.
- Find products and related data by attributes across 70+ standard forms, such as inventory on-hand or sales data.
- Streamlined Data Entry: Add new lines in over 20 forms (Sales lines, Purchase lines, Trade agreements, Counting lines, etc.) with advanced attribute filtering.
- Grid Integration: Display attributes as columns on over 80 standard forms (Sales lines, Inventory on-hand, Released products, etc.).
- Intelligent Product Creation: Assign categories and attributes during product creation, set category-specific product id number sequences, and auto-generate product names based on attribute values.
- Duplication Control: Automated warnings if a new product has a non-unique set of attributes.
- Advanced Analytics: A dedicated Sales Attribute Analysis workspace for hierarchy, category-based, and attributes reporting.
- Additional Features: Supports saved views/personalization, attribute ranges in queries (for reports and jobs), "copy to clipboard" for filtered IDs, tools to identify missing attribute values, etc.
The Product attribute extension functionality requires no additional parameter setup to work. All features are built directly on existing standard setup options. This ensures that the add-on works out of the box immediately after installation, even in applications already utilizing hierarchies, categories, and attributes.