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Dynamics 365 Business Central Development Quick Start Guide

By : Stefano Demiliani, Duilio Tacconi
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Dynamics 365 Business Central Development Quick Start Guide

By: Stefano Demiliani, Duilio Tacconi

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is the new SaaS ERP proposition from Microsoft. This latest version has many exciting features guaranteed to make your life easier. This book is an ideal guide to Dynamics 365 Business Central and will help you get started with implementing and designing solutions for real-world scenarios. This book will take you through the fundamental topics for implementing solutions based on Dynamics 365 Business Central (on-premise and SaaS). We'll see the core topics of the new development model (based on extensions) and we'll see how to create applications with the new Microsoft ERP proposition. The book begins by explaining the basics of Dynamics 365 Business Central and the Microsoft ERP proposition. We will then cover topics such as extensions, the new modern development model of Visual studio code, sandboxes, Docker, and many others. By the end of the book, you will have learned how to debug and compile extensions and to deploy them to the cloud and on-premise.You will also have learned how to create serverless business processes for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Customizing the Headline


The Headline is an interesting new object available in Dynamics 365 Business Central that can be used to immediately show up-to-date information on a Role Center page. A Headline is essentially a page that contains one or more text fields that can be formatted in a particular way. There are nine standard Headlines in Dynamics 365 Business Central:

Nine standard Headlines in Dynamics 365 Business Central

A Headline is a page with a new PageType called HeadlinePart:

The HeadlinePart Page

For our extension, we also want to customize the Dynamics 365 Business Central Headline (the Headline RC Business Manager object) in order to show some statistical information's to users.

Note

Headlines will only appear in the web client; they will not be shown in other client types.

To create this customization, we need to add a pageextension object to our project in order to extend the Headline RC Business Manager page.

This is the complete code of our pageextension for customizing the Headline...