What is AOT in AX & D365FO

 

Define AOT in AX & D365FO

The Application Object Tree (AOT) is a tree view of all the application objects within Microsoft Dynamics AX and D365FO. The AOT contains everything you need to customize the look and functionality of a Microsoft Dynamics AX application.

In the D365FO,  You can find the AOT objects in Application Explorer.

Custom font in SSRS Report

Install custom font in SSRS Report

In this blog, I will show you how to use custom fonts in Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations reports, which Means fonts that are not part of your D365FO environment.

We can add the Custom font in AOS resources. D365FO server loads the font after your package deployment and treats those fonts as a systems-installed font.

Following are the simple step to use a custom font in the SSRS report in D365FO...


Step-1 Download any font you want to use in the SSRS report. in this tutorial for a demo, I am using the below Fonts.

1. Romantisk Demo Regular
2. Madpakke Demo Regular

Step-2 Create custom report like below  

Step-3 Now Add the resource file and add your downloaded font on the resource. each font required a separate resource file.

Here I am adding two resource files and assigning my font to them One by one.

Romantisk Demo Regular

Madpakke Demo Regular

The resource file looks like the below image.

Step-4 Now install the font on a development server. so it will available for you in Visual Studio for your development.

Step-5 Now add design in the report and add write any text then assign your custom font to your text. 

Step-6 Now perform build and deploy the report..

Step-7 Execute the report it will look like this.

Step-8 Now create the deployable package and deploy it on your D365FO Azure server :)

Please feel free to contact me if you are facing any issues during the implementation of this blog