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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

Creating a purchase order


Purchase orders are used throughout the purchasing process to hold information about the goods or services that a company buys from its suppliers. Normally, purchase orders are created from the user interface, but in automated processes, purchase orders can be also created from the code.

In this recipe, you will learn how to create a purchase order from the code. We will use a standard method provided by the application.

How to do it...

Carry out the following steps in order to complete this recipe:

  1. Add a new runnable class named CreatePurchOrder with the following code snippet:
        static void PktCreatePurchOrder(Args _args) 
       {   
          NumberSeq  numberSeq; 
          PurchTable purchTable; 
          PurchLine  purchLine; 
 
          ttsBegin; 
          //initialize number sequence objects 
          numberSeq = NumberSeq::newGetNum( 
           PurchParameters::numRefPurchId()); 
            numberSeq.used(); 
          purchTable.PurchId = numberSeq...