https://darrenparkinson.uk/tags/dynamics/ Recent content in dynamics on Darren Parkinson Hugo -- gohugo.io en Sat, 25 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://darrenparkinson.uk/posts/2019-05-25-extracting-photos-from-dynamics-with-go/ Sat, 25 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://darrenparkinson.uk/posts/2019-05-25-extracting-photos-from-dynamics-with-go/ <p>We use Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 as our <a href="https://platform.deloitte.com.au/articles/a-pace-layered-integration-architecture">&ldquo;System of Record (SOR)&rdquo;</a> and single source of truth for our people (HR) data. One of the things we keep there is a photo of each person. These days, there are several places that the photo ideally needs to be, in order to provide a consistent user experience across the variety of applications we use on a daily basis, ranging from Business Messaging to internally developed applications and dashboards using a static load balancer.</p> <p>Ultimately we developed a command line application using <a href="https://github.com/spf13/cobra">Cobra</a> that runs on a scheduled basis to keep photos across all the platforms up to date. This post is about the way Dynamics stores the photos and how we overcame that using Go.</p>