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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
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Customer Feedback
Preface

Build a generic read audit plugin


In the Setting up an Azure Service Bus endpoint recipe earlier in this chapter, we used built-in plugin capabilities to write a plugin context to an Azure Service Bus queue when a specific event is triggered (update of a specific field).

We can also use this same capability to also trigger an event when records are read, effectively creating a read audit notification/log.

In this recipe we will configure a read plugin step to write its context to an Azure Service Bus queue. We'll then create a listener that will gather the user GUID, the entity name and the entity GUID of the record read, and store those values in a NoSQL Azure Cosmos DB (previously known as Document DB) database in the JSON format:

Getting ready

You will need an Azure Service Bus endpoint registered in Dynamics 365 as set out in the Setting up an Azure Service Bus endpoint recipe earlier in this chapter. You will also need an Azure user able to create a Cosmos DB instance and a corresponding...