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Extending Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations Apps with Power Platform

By : Adrià Ariste Santacreu
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Extending Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations Apps with Power Platform

By: Adrià Ariste Santacreu

Overview of this book

Uncover the synergy between Microsoft Power Platform and its integration with Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations (F&O) with this essential guide to implementing low-code and no-code concepts to not only extend and enhance F&O but also improve maintainability and speed up development. Systematically exploring Power Platform, this book covers topics such as Dataverse, Power Automate, Power Apps, and Power BI using real-world scenarios in Dynamics 365 F&O to offer practical insights. You’ll then master the integration of F&O and Power Platform using dual-write and virtual tables, and delve into process automation with Power Automate. The book further deepens your proficiency in Power Apps by showing you how they can be used to extend the F&O functionality and incorporate artificial intelligence using AI Builder and its pre-trained AI models ready to use with your data. Throughout, you’ll gain a solid understanding of the diverse components of Power Platform and how they can transform your Dynamics 365 F&O experience. By the end of this book, you’ll be equipped with the skills and knowledge necessary to fully harness the immense potential of Power Platform and Dynamics 365 F&O.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Free Chapter
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Part 1: Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations and Power Platform
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Part 2: Extending Dynamics 365 F&O with Power Platform
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Part 3: Adding AI to Your Flows and Apps
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Part 4: Dataverse and Power Platform ALM

Exporting and importing solutions

We’ve created an app; with its connections, it calls some flows and communicates with some different environments. We’ve tested that, and now we want to move it to a UAT environment where the users will test and learn.

Hopefully, the solution you’ve created in your dev environment is an unmanaged solution because of what we learned in the previous section. Let’s see in more detail how we can export a solution and which options we have.

Publishing an unmanaged solution

Let me start with something we haven’t talked about yet. When we export an unmanaged solution and we’ve made changes to it, we must publish it first. We can do this in the export functionality. After clicking the Export button, we get a dialog where we can choose to publish the changes before continuing with the export process (see Figure 11.10):

Figure 11.10 – Publishing all changes from the Export dialog

Figure 11.10 – Publishing all changes from the Export dialog...