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Microsoft Dynamics 365 Extensions Cookbook

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Microsoft Dynamics 365 Extensions Cookbook

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics 365 is a powerful tool. It has many unique features that empower organisations to bridge common business challenges and technology pitfalls that would usually hinder the adoption of a CRM solution. This book sets out to enable you to harness the power of Dynamics 365 and cater to your unique circumstances. We start this book with a no-code configuration chapter and explain the schema, fields, and forms modeling techniques. We then move on to server-side and client-side custom code extensions. Next, you will see how best to integrate Dynamics 365 in a DevOps pipeline to package and deploy your extensions to the various SDLC environments. This book also covers modern libraries and integration patterns that can be used with Dynamics 365 (Angular, 3 tiers, and many others). Finally, we end by highlighting some of the powerful extensions available. Throughout we explain a range of design patterns and techniques that can be used to enhance your code quality; the aim is that you will learn to write enterprise-scale quality code.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Wiring your event programmatically


In the previous recipe, we wrote our first JavaScript function and wired it manually. If you are going down the custom development path, always keep in mind future maintenance tasks. Rather than wiring your events manually through the user interface, consider doing it programmatically. Not only will that reduce the manual steps to configure your extensions, but it will also give you one location to view/maintain all the event wiring.

Getting ready

In order to wire your event programmatically, you'll need a candidate function to wire (we will use the function from the previous recipe), an IDE to write your code, and, of course, access to a Dynamics 365 instance with the System Customizer or higher security role.

How to do it...

  1. Navigate to Settings | Solutions | Packt.
  2. Click on Web Resources and double-click on packt_common.js.
  3. Click on Text Edit and add the following lines of code to your library:
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