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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

Changing an automatic transaction text


Every financial transaction in Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations must have a descriptive text. Some texts are entered by users and some can be generated by the system. The latter option holds true for automatically generated transactions, where the user cannot interact with the process.

Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations provides a way to define texts for automatically generated transactions. The setup can be found by navigating to Organizations administration | Setup | Default descriptions. Here, the user can create custom transaction texts for various automatic transaction types and languages. The text itself can have a number of placeholders--digits with a percent sign in front of them, which are replaced with actual values during the process. Placeholders can be from %1 to %6, and they can be substituted with the following values:

  • %1: This is the transaction date
  • %2: This is a relevant number, such as the invoice and delivery note
  • %3: This...