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Extending Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Operations Cookbook

By : Simon Buxton
Book Image

Extending Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Operations Cookbook

By: Simon Buxton

Overview of this book

Dynamics 365 for Operations is the ERP element of Microsoft’s new Dynamics 365 Enterprise Edition. Operations delivers the infrastructure to allow businesses to achieve growth and make better decisions using scalable and contemporary ERP system tools. This book provides a collection of “recipes” to instruct you on how to create—and extend—a real-world solution using Operations. All key aspects of the new release are covered, and insights into the development language, structure, and tools are discussed in detail. New concepts and patterns that are pivotal to elegant solution designs are introduced and explained, and readers will learn how to extend various aspects of the system to enhance both the usability and capabilities of Operations. Together, this gives the reader important context regarding the new concepts and the confidence to reuse in their own solution designs. This “cookbook” provides the ingredients and methods needed to maximize the efficiency of your business management using the latest in ERP software—Dynamics 365 for Operations.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Hooking up a workflow to the user interface

This is the final step in designing our workflow, and involves setting a property on the form referenced by the document menu item, ConWHSVehicleTable, and adding the option to design workflows to the menu.

Getting ready

The minimum we need to have completed for this is create a workflow type.

How to do it...

In order to be able to design and process workflows, follow these steps:

  1. Expand User interface, Menu items, and then Display from the Application Explorer. Located WorkflowConfgurationBasic, right-click on it and choose Duplicate in project.
  2. Locate the new menu item...