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SSRS - D365 FO SAT-box annoyance

WHY oh WHY, does the developer-box not tell you, that you can not use custom code in an SSRS-report ?

Working with a SSRS-report on Dynamics 365 FO, I came across the following annoyance, with Microsofts setup virtual boxes in Azure.

I was working with getting the report to present the filters and chosen parameters from the report dialog that the user is running the report with.
At some stage, I thought making a function with custom code in the report properties, was the way to go, but I abandoned that approach in favour of another - AND forgot all about the code.

This meant that the custom coded was checked into dev.azure.com, and included in the build on the build box. So I got the deployable package and uploaded it into asset library in LCS, and applied to the SAT-environment.

No worries. Right until the users started tested the report in the SAT-environment, because they got:




So this meant going back to the dev-box, cleaning out the custom code, doing the building and applying to SAT all over again.

Why could the build-box not just check for this, and warn me? :-(

Lesson learned do NOT use custom code in SSRS-reports for D365 FO.



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