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Mastering Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

By : Stefano Demiliani, Duilio Tacconi
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Mastering Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

By: Stefano Demiliani, Duilio Tacconi

Overview of this book

Dynamics 365 Business Central is an all-in-one business management solution, which is easy to adopt and helps you make smarter business decisions. This book is a comprehensive guide to developing solutions with Microsoft ERP (in the cloud and also on-premises). It covers all aspects of developing extensions, right from preparing a sandbox environment to deploying a complete solution. The book starts by introducing you to the Dynamics 365 Business Central platform and the new Modern Development Environment. You'll then explore the sandbox concept, and see how to create sandboxes for development. As you advance, you’ll be able to build a complete advanced solution for Dynamics 365 Business Central with AL language and Visual Studio Code. You'll then learn how to debug and deploy the extension and write automatic testing. The book will also take you through advanced topics like integration (with Azure Functions, web services, and APIs), DevOps and CI/CD techniques, and machine learning. You'll discover how Dynamics 365 Business Central can be used with Office 365 apps. Finally, you'll analyze different ways to move existing solutions to the new development model based on extensions. By the end of this book, you'll be able to develop highly customized solutions that meet the requirements of modern businesses using Dynamics 365 Business Central.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Section 1: Dynamics 365 Business Central - Platform Overview and the Basics of Modern Development
5
Section 2: Developing Extensions for Dynamics 365 Business Central
10
Section 3: Debugging, Testing, and Release Management (DevOps)
15
Section 4: Advanced Integrations with Dynamics 365 Business Central
20
Section 5: Moving Solutions to the New Extension Model

Creating and extending Role Centers

When a user logs in to Dynamics 365 Business Central, they are presented with a page that shows information and actions tailored to their role inside the company. This page is called a Role Center, and it's an integral part of the role-tailored experience of the application.

Dynamics 365 Business Central offers about 20 Role Centers out of the box (as standard) that you can extend and customize, and you can create new Role Centers.

A Role Center is a page that has the PageType property set to RoleCenter. The page structure is as follows:

In the structure diagram, the sections are as follows:

  • Section 1 is the Navigation Menu area (one or more items that, when clicked, show other sub-menus). This is used to provide access to the relevant entities for the role to which this Role Center page is assigned.
  • Section 2 is the Navigation Bar...