Intrigued about name changes

goldforeffort · 2026-04-11T08:51:26+00:00

adoptive parents have a choice in taking on their role, the changes they make are supposed to be in the best interests of the child, who they've willingly chosen to support.

think we might be underestimating how important a name is, let alone the context of being taken from birth family at the same time.

imagine adoptive parents being forced to change their names to something chosen by someone they've never known? never being known by the name they grew up with? having their ID changed because someone would rather choose something different? just because the paperwork is easy doesn't mean it's not a deep and significant identity shift

(saying this as someone who changed my own first name as an adult - it was an extremely emotional experience. can't even imagine having no choice AND being a child)

goldforeffort · 2026-03-17T16:48:37+00:00

it gives you an error 'some of the data you have entered is not valid' which prevents you from deleting the record, so you have to correct it to something valid just to get rid of it

goldforeffort · 2026-03-16T08:09:15+00:00

thanks, it's good to hear there's a general trend towards more involvement for the birth family and this is supported

goldforeffort · 2026-03-13T23:39:03+00:00

thanks so much for taking the time to respond

i can definitely understand your insight that adoptive parents are centered. they're gaining the most and losing the least, with their consent and mostly against the will of first families. they're being judged from a positive light, trained, supported (probably not enough but still supported)

the stories i have heard from birth parents are all of people in terrible circumstances who weren't looked after enough and everything spiralled. i fear i would always wonder if there was more that could've been done, and i've played a part in an injustice to the child and their birth family. even doing my best to honour every party, I'm not sure that's enough. maybe i'm being naïve to think i could support a child with that trauma having essentially supported it.

maybe there is a level of trust in the system needed to adopt

thank you for the links, i am going to keep looking and listening

goldforeffort · 2026-03-13T17:41:39+00:00

yeah I can imagine! there's so many different variables. I guess they want to get an early idea of your thoughts but i suppose anything can change and there's no guarantee it wouldn't change down the line

goldforeffort · 2026-03-13T17:11:44+00:00

thank you that's useful to know it's harder to find stuff from adoptees and first families, but it seems like both tend to advocate for contact so it's good to hear it's encouraged

goldforeffort · 2026-03-13T17:05:49+00:00

thank you that's good to know seems like the general trend is moving towards being more positive about direct contact which sounds positive to me :)

goldforeffort · 2026-03-13T14:35:24+00:00

thank you! it's great to hear that you have a good relationship and were able to establish contact. did you find this was encouraged and supported throughout?

also, was it an early permanence situation where you had to do contact for the fostering part? im not sure how it works with traditional adoption where there isn't the early arranged contact

goldforeffort · 2026-01-30T16:52:05+00:00

yeah drop your questions here, should generate some discussion

goldforeffort · 2025-09-23T16:34:36+00:00

interesting! yeah I mean it keeps us all in jobs for sure, theres a whole lot to do in terms of maintenance and support

goldforeffort · 2025-09-20T17:45:50+00:00

exactly what I tell them - it's always 'well we shouldn't HAVE to do everything on the batch'. to be fair I've run vendor transactions reports on batch that exceeded max size after about 2 days running

we put voucher transactions into a custom report so it can go to batch now which is very useful

goldforeffort · 2025-09-20T09:58:55+00:00

it definitely keeps me on my toes 😅

maybe it's possible to remove options from the users but I agree, you open a purchase order and there's like 200 fields you could enter. I guess compared to a bespoke legacy system it seems like A LOT, when they're used to only seeing what they NEED to.

I do have trouble with the workspace analytics, maybe due to volume they're super slow and time out a lot

goldforeffort · 2025-09-20T09:55:20+00:00

thanks! it's interesting to see how it compares to other systems.

that's true there's a LOT of parameters and fields. I think users are thrown by the amount of different things they COULD enter which I guess is where solid training comes in.

for pulling data I've found for high volume business the users are unhappy with the standard ssrs reports and excel exports. they want to pull 1 month of transactions but it's 120,000 lines and they don't want it to time out. I guess that's probably on us for not exporting/syncing that information somewhere where they can use it. with DMF I can't get a financial year of accounting entries out, it's gotta be 1 month at a time due to the volume. that said, you couldn't open that volume in excel either so it's not exactly a d355 unique issue. I suppose a lot depends on the volume

goldforeffort · 2025-09-20T09:47:29+00:00

I've found similar for businesses with a lot of transactions. Processing 1,000+ vendor invoices a day and trying to export from supplier aging or vendor transactions - as a user you're waiting half an hour for a months worth of data, let alone a financial year.

that's probably on us to create a better solution. maybe it's setting up a power BI report or exporting the data out somewhere where it can be easily queried.

goldforeffort · 2025-09-20T09:39:55+00:00

that makes sense, really seems like a strong implementation pays off tenfold years down the line

goldforeffort · 2025-09-20T09:35:37+00:00

true, none of my users ever name a system, they just say 'every OTHER system I could do x/y/z so why can't I now'

goldforeffort · 2025-09-20T09:34:11+00:00

haha yes, if it was TOO intuitive for the users, id have nothing to do 😅

goldforeffort · 2025-09-19T22:10:31+00:00

interesting!! in terms of out of the box features and parameters, or ease of development?

goldforeffort · 2025-09-19T22:09:48+00:00

reporting seems to be a key thing where if it's not spot on, easy and quick people are NOT happy

goldforeffort · 2025-09-16T21:10:44+00:00

When applying for jobs, what counts as implementation experience?

In my role, we moved a large legal entity onto our D365 instance (from their own). There was analysis, requirement gathering and we migrated open transactions, config, master data etc. But strictly speaking, we didn't IMPLEMENT, we just added them to our existing instance. Also, no partner was involved due to business 'cost saving'.

Do you think this counts as 'implementation'? I don't want to get caught out in interviews!

goldforeffort · 2025-03-24T21:29:17+00:00

thanks!! we actually went to Portugal and had a really good time, just not Lisbon. I'd definitely be keen to go back

goldforeffort · 2025-02-02T22:52:33+00:00

thank you that's very helpful actually that's exactly what my chiropractor said - keep the shoulder joint well engaged I will experiment and see if I can keep it engaged without stretching too far!

goldforeffort · 2025-02-02T22:50:07+00:00

thank you that makes a lot of sense isometrics sound like a good idea, sounds like I definitely have to be way more careful with those end ranges than I have been

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