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Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations Development Cookbook - Fourth Edition

By : Abhimanyu Singh, Deepak Agarwal
Book Image

Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations Development Cookbook - Fourth Edition

By: Abhimanyu Singh, Deepak Agarwal

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations has a lot to offer developers. It allows them to customize and tailor their implementations to meet their organization’s needs. This Development Cookbook will help you manage your company or customer ERP information and operations efficiently. We start off by exploring the concept of data manipulation in Dynamics 365 for Operations. This will also help you build scripts to assist data migration, and show you how to organize data in forms. You will learn how to create custom lookups using Application Object Tree forms and generate them dynamically. We will also show you how you can enhance your application by using advanced form controls, and integrate your system with other external systems. We will help you script and enhance your user interface using UI elements. This book will help you look at application development from a business process perspective, and develop enhanced ERP solutions by learning and implementing the best practices and techniques.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Dedication
Preface

Building a dynamic form


A standard approach to creating forms in Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations is to build and store form objects in the AOT. It is possible to achieve a high level of complexity using this approach. However, in a number of cases, it is necessary to have forms created dynamically. In a standard Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations application, we can see that application objects, such as the Table browser form, various lookups, or dialogs, are built dynamically. Even in Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, where we have a browser-based interface, every form or dialog opens in a browser only.

In this recipe, we will create a dynamic form. In order to show how flexible the form can be, we will replicate the layout of the existing Customer groups form located in the Accounts receivable module. The Customers form can be opened by navigating to Accounts receivable | Setup | Customers.

How to do it...

Carry out the following steps in order to complete this recipe...