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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

Microsoft PowerApps


Microsoft PowerApps is a cloud-based and no-code solution offered by the Office 365 platform to create web- and mobile-data-connected applications.

To create a PowerApps connected to Dynamics 365 Business Central, log in to https://powerapps.microsoft.com/, select the Apps menu on the left, and then click on Create an App:

In the Connection menu, select Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and then click Create. A wizard will create a connection to your Dynamics 365 Business Central tenant.

Now you can choose a dataset to work with (selected from the list of your companies), select a table (from all the tables published as OData web services in Dynamics 365 Business Central), and click Connect:

PowerApps creates a connection to your data, and after few seconds PowerApps Studio is started. Here is the place where you can start building your app:

The PowerApps Studio

You can customize the layout, add more fields to the app pages, and many other things:

If we just start this...