Regulatory Configuration Services (RCS) - Globalization features

Important

Regulatory Configuration Service (RCS) will be deprecated. All new RCS provisioning is stopped as of 10.0.39 GA. If provisioning is required, please register a support ticket. We will be providing tools and required support for migration from RCS to the Globalization Studio workspace. We plan to fully shut down RCS by August 1, 2024. For more information about migration to Globalization Studio workspace, see Regulatory Configuration Service merge to the Globalization Studio workspace

You can use Microsoft Regulatory Configuration Services (RCS) to create a Globalization feature that can be used in Globalization services, such as an e-invoicing service. RCS lets you perform these tasks:

• Define related components of a feature.
• Manage the feature lifecycle through a feature's status.
• Make a feature available for defined environments.
• Share a feature with other organizations.

The following procedures explain how a user in RCS can add a Globalization feature and related components, update the feature's status, and make the feature available so that it can be used in Globalization services.

Before you complete the procedures, you must complete the steps that are related to the following tasks:

• Accessing an RCS instance.
• Creating and activating a configuration provider. For more information, see Create configuration providers and mark them as active.

In your finance and operations apps instance, follow these steps.

1. Go to Organization administration > Workspaces > Electronic reporting.
2. If no RCS environment is provisioned for your company, select Regulatory services – Configuration, and follow the instructions to provision one.

Note

If an RCS environment has already been provisioned for your company, use the page URL to access the environment by selecting the sign-in option.

Turn on the Globalization features

1. In your RCS instance, select the Feature management tile.

2. In the Feature management workspace, select Globalization features in the list, and then select Enable now.

   

Globalization features

To use a Globalization feature, you must first import it from the the Global repository and create your own version of it. There are two ways to add Globalization features:

• Add a derived feature that is based on an existing feature that has been published or shared.
• Add a new feature that you've created from scratch.

Access Globalization features

1. Make sure that the Globalization features feature is turned on in Feature management, as described earlier in this article.

2. Open the new Globalization Features workspace, and then, under Features, select the e-Invoicing tile.

   

   The e-Invoicing Features page is opened.

   

Add a derived Globalization feature

You can add a new Globalization feature by deriving it from an existing feature that has been published or shared.

1. Select Import to open the Import feature from Global repository page.

   

2. Select Synchronize to get the latest features.

   The synced list includes features that are available to you either because they were published by Microsoft or because they were shared with you by another configuration provider.

   

3. In the list, select the features to import, and then select Import. You receive a message when the selected features have been successfully imported.

   

4. Select Add, and then, in the drop-down dialog box, select the Based on existing version option.

5. Enter a name and description for the feature.

6. In the list of available features, select the base version of the feature, and then select Create feature.

   

   The feature that you added is created and has a status of Draft.

   

7. Review the feature components to determine whether updates are required:

   • Review the configurations, in case you need to customize the Electronic reporting (ER) formats and their binding with format mappings for the feature version.
   • Review the setup, in case you need to customize the Actions tab, Applicability rules tab, or Variables tab for the feature version.

8. On the Versions tab, select an Effective from date, and enter a description if the Description field is blank.

9. Select Change status to complete the feature. Completed features can be made available for a specific environment so that they can be used in Globalization services, or they can be published to the Global repository.

Note

Features that have a Feature version status value of Published can be shared with external organizations.

Add a new Globalization feature

You can add a new Globalization feature by creating it from scratch.

1. On the Import feature from Global repository page, select Add, and then, in the drop-down dialog box, select the New feature option.

2. Enter a name and description for the feature.

3. Select Create feature.

   

4. On the Versions tab, select an Effective from date, and then select Change status to complete the feature. Completed features can be made available for a specific environment so that they can be used in Globalization services, or they can be published to the Global repository.

Note

Features that have a Feature version status value of Published can be shared with external organizations.

Feature component overview

Globalization features have several components:

• Version – This component supports feature lifecycle management and lets users manage the status for different versions of the feature.
• Configurations – This component lets users manage, view, and edit related ER formats and format mappings.
• Setups – This component lets users of Globalization services, such as an e-invoicing service, manage the setup of the related feature version. Therefore, it supports the flexible construction of communication and responses rules.
• Environment – This component lets users of Globalization services, such as an e-invoicing service, manage the environment where the feature version setup is used and grant authorization to the users who will have access to it.
• Organizations – This component lets users to share the feature with external organizations.

Configuring feature components

Version and status

The version is used to manage the Globalization feature lifecycle.

The status can be changed in the Status field on the Version tab. The following statuses are available:

• Draft – The feature can be edited only when it's in this status.
• Complete – The feature and all related components have been finalized (completed) and can't be edited.
• Published – The feature and all related components have been published to the Global repository.
• Shared – The feature and all related components have been shared with external organizations.
• Enabled – The feature and all related components have been enabled for use in a Globalization service, such as an e-invoicing service.

Note

Features must move sequentially through some of these statuses. Therefore, not every status might be available at every lifecycle stage.

Configurations

The following actions are available for configurations:

• View – View the underlying feature configurations that don't require any update.
• Edit – Create a draft version of a selected configuration so that you can edit the format or format mapping in the Format designer.
• Delete – Delete a selected configuration from the feature.
• Rebase – Rebase the feature. For more information, see the Rebase derived Globalization features section later in this article.

Setups

The following actions are available for feature setups:

• Add – Create a new feature setup. This feature setup can be derived from an existing feature setup or created from scratch.

• Delete – Delete a selected feature setup.

• View – View an underlying feature setup that doesn't require any changes.

• Edit – Create, delete, or modify the attributes of the three main components of a feature setup:

  • Actions and their parameters
  • Applicability rules
  • Variables

Environments

The following actions are available for environments:

• Enable – For a selected feature version, select a published environment, and select an Effective from date when it should be available. For more information, see the Configure environments for enablement section later in this article.
• Cancel – Remove an environment for a feature setup.

Organizations

Follow these steps to share a Globalization feature with an external organization.

1. On the e-Invoicing features page, select the feature and the feature version to share.

2. On the Organizations tab, select Share with, and then, in the drop-down dialog box, enter the organization's domain name.

3. Select Share.

   

The feature is shared with the selected organization and is available for that organization in the Global repository. From there, the feature can be imported into the organization's instance of RCS or Dynamics 365 Finance so that it can be used.

Rebase derived Globalization features

You can rebase a derived Globalization feature to the new or updated base feature version. In this way, changes that have occurred in the base version can be automatically updated. The updated base feature version is created by the originating configuration provider, and it's then published or shared.

For example, if you want to rebase the derived version of a feature that you created, you first get the latest version of the feature by importing it from the Global repository.

1. On the e-Invoicing features page, select Import.

2. Select Synchronize to get the latest features.

3. In the list of features, select the features to import, and then select Import.

   

4. In the list of features, select the feature to rebase.

5. On the Version tab, select New to create a draft version.

   

6. Select Rebase.

7. In the Rebase dialog box, select the latest version of the feature to rebase to.

   

8. Select OK.

9. Review the feature components, and make any changes that are required.

10. Select Change status to complete the rebased feature. When the rebase is completed, you can perform additional actions. For example, you can publish the feature and make it available for use in Globalization services.

    

Configure environments for Globalization features

Users of Globalization services can manage the environment to set up a Globalization feature and grant authorization to other users who will have access to it.

1. In the Globalization Features workspace, under Environments, select the e-Invoicing tile.

   

2. Select Key Vault parameters, and then select New to create an Azure Key Vault secret.

3. Enter a name and description for the key vault, and then, in the Key Vault URI field, enter the URL that identifies the Key Vault resource in Azure.

4. On the Certificates FastTab, select Add to add the certificate, and enter a name and description for each certificate.

   

5. Select New to create a new environment.

6. Enter a name, a description, and the shared access signature token secret required for the storage.

7. On the Users FastTab, select New to add a user who will have permission to access this environment.

8. Enter the user's user ID and email address.

9. Repeat steps 7 and 8 to add more users.

10. Select Publish to publish the environment.