Entity, control, and user interface changes (Project Service Automation 3.x)

Important

Dynamics 365 Project Service Automation has evolved into Dynamics 365 Project Operations. For more information, see Project Service Automation Transition.

With the release of Microsoft Dynamics Project Service Automation (PSA) 3.x, many changes have been made to the entities, controls, views, and user interface. This article provides information about these important changes.

Parent-child relationships for sales document, sales document line, sales document line detail entities

In versions of Dynamics 365 Project Service Automation (PSA) released prior to version 3.0, some of the relationships between sales documents, sales document lines, and sales document line detail entities were implemented through string fields that would hold a string representation of GUID of the related entity. This was due to platform limitations that required significant custom code on the server and client sides of the solution to make those relationships work similar to typical Dynamics CRM entity relationships and to make string fields act like lookup fields.

PSA 3.0 has been updated to leverage the new entity relationships between sales document and sales document line entities.

Because lookup fields can now be used to indicate references to entities, the fields that held the string value of the GUID of the related entity in previous versions are no longer needed and therefore have been deprecated. The custom client and server side code that handles the relationships defined by legacy string fields has also been deprecated.

Entity schema changes

The following table provides a one-to-one list of the deprecated string fields and the new lookup fields for the entities.

Entity	Deprecated field (String)	New field (Lookup)
invoicedetail (Invoice Line)	msdyn_contractline	msdyn_contractlineid
msdyn_actual (Actual)	msdyn_salescontractline	msdyn_salescontractlineid
msdyn_contractlineinvoiceschedule (Project Contract Line Invoice Schedule)	msdyn_contractline	msdyn_contractlineid
msdyn_contractlinescheduleofvalue (Project Contract Line Milestone)	msdyn_contractline	msdyn_contractlineid
msdyn_fact (Fact)	msdyn_salescontractline	msdyn_salescontractlineid
msdyn_invoicelinetransaction (Invoice Line Detail)	msdyn_invoiceline msdyn_salescontractline	msdyn_invoicelineid msdyn_salescontractlineid
msdyn_journalline (Journal Line)	msdyn_salescontractline	msdyn_salescontractlineid
msdyn_orderlineresourcecategory (Project Contract Line Resource Category)	msdyn_salescontractline	msdyn_contractlineid
msdyn_orderlinetransaction (Project Contract Line Detail)	msdyn_salescontractline	msdyn_salescontractlineid
msdyn_orderlinetransactioncategory (Project Contract Line Transaction Category)	msdyn_contractline	msdyn_contractlineid
msdyn_orderlinetransactionclassification (Project Contract Line Transaction Classification)	msdyn_contractline	msdyn_contractlineid
msdyn_quotelineinvoiceschedule (Quote Line Invoice Schedule)	msdyn_quoteline	msdyn_quotelineid
msdyn_quotelineresourcecategory (Quote Line Resource Category)	msdyn_quoteline	msdyn_quotelineid
msdyn_quotelinescheduleofvalue (Quote Line Milestone)	msdyn_quoteline	msdyn_quotelineid
msdyn_quotelinetransaction (Quote Line Detail)	msdyn_quoteline	msdyn_quotelineid
msdyn_quotelinetransactioncategory (Quote Line Transaction Category)	msdyn_quoteline	msdyn_quotelineid
msdyn_quotelinetransactionclassification (Quote Line Transaction Classification)	msdyn_quoteline	msdyn_quotelineid
SalesOrderDetail (Order Line)	msdyn_quotelineid	msdyn_quoteline

Deprecated custom views and controls

The following custom views and controls, and their related artifacts, have been deprecated.

• Chargeability view.
• Custom grid controls for showing quote line details on the Project Information page for the quote line.
• Custom grid controls for showing project contract line details on the Project Information page for the sales order line.

Note

For the full list of deprecated resources, see Deprecated Web resources in Project Service Automation v3.x

Unified Client Interface App Module

With the introduction of Unified Client Interface (UCI) App Modules, the PSA site map entries have been removed from the system.
Functionality related to form switching for Opportunity, Quote, Order, Invoice has been deprecated as it is no longer required because the UCI App Module includes only PSA versions of the forms.

The following web resources have been deprecated:

• msdyn_\SalesDocument\SalesDocumentFormLoader.js
• msdyn_\SalesDocument\PSSalesDocumentCustomFormIds.js

Note

For the full list of deprecated resources, see Deprecated Web resources in Project Service Automation v3.x.