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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

Creating a lookup dynamically


Automatic lookups, mentioned in the previous recipe, are widely used across the system and are very useful in simple scenarios. When it comes to showing different fields from different data sources, applying various static or dynamic filters, or similar, some coding is required. The current version of Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations is flexible enough that the developer can create custom lookups, either using the Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations forms or by running them dynamically from the X++ code.

This recipe will show how to dynamically build a runtime lookup from the code. In this demonstration, we will modify the Vendoraccount lookup on the Customers form to allow users to select only those vendors that use the same currency as the currently selected customer.

How to do it...

To create a lookup dynamically, we can follow the following steps:-

  1. Create a new solution name CreatingDynamicLookup and assign an appropriate package to it.
  2. Create a new...