Microsoft Dynamics Lifecycle Services March Release Available

Microsoft has rolled out the March release of Lifecycle Services (LCS). It offers, among other features, asset library improvements. This is the first time Microsoft has enabled multi-select support for a set of operations in the asset library.

Currently, Microsoft supports multi-select for most of the operations in asset library including Delete, Save to my library, and Mark as release candidate. Beginning with this update, a user can provide descriptions for all the assets in the Asset library. The descriptions will then be available to everyone in LCS using the asset the user uploads.

The March update also offers some performance improvements, including the ability to export a BPM library for localization.

"[The] functionality now enables the localization (translation) of business process lines and task guide steps associated with business process lines," according to a post on the Microsoft Dynamics Lifecycle Services Engineering Blog, which details the steps necessary to access this functionality.

After a user imports BPM localizations, a Dynamics AX client connected to his or her LCS project will be able to render task guides in the Dynamics AX user interface language. However, the LCS BPM portal does not have this functionality yet. And import functionality is still not available for Dynamics AX 2012 projects, according to the blog post.

Another feature in the update is Solution creation, which allows partners to create a process data package directly from the Asset library. And the Methodology improvements enable a user to clone, or create copies of, an existing phase and the related tasks.

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