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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

Export API


The Export API is used to provide custom export options such as Open in Excel options that are manually added via the Export API.

In this recipe, we will show how to use the Export API to provide custom export options by adding an explicit button for Open in Excel experiences. The label shown on the button should usually be Open target in Excel where the target is the name of the target data, such as Vendors or catalog. The code behind such a button will be for obtaining the template to be used. Add the desired filter and pass the template to the user.

How to do it...

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

  1. Start Visual Studio 2015 by opening the previously created project, or create a new project.
  2. Right-click on the project, and then click Add | Newitem.
  3. Select the Resource item type and set the name to VendorBasicTemplate. Make sure that VendorBasicTemplate.xlsx is closed.
  4. Add a document template for usage in code.
  1. Add a new button OpenVendorInExcel on the VendTable...