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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

Caching a display method


In Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, display methods are still used in some places to show additional information on forms or reports such as fields, calculations, and more. Although they are shown as physical fields, their values are a result of the methods to which they are bound.

The display methods are executed each time the form is redrawn. This means that the more complex the method is, the longer it will take to display it on the screen. Hence, it is always recommended to keep the code in the display methods to a minimum.

The performance of the display methods can be improved by caching them. This is when a display method's return value is retrieved from a database or calculated only once and subsequent calls are made to the cache.

In this recipe, we will create a new cached display method for the PaymentTerm description. We will also discuss a few scenarios in order to learn how to properly use caching.

How to do it...

  1. In the Application explorer, locate...