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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

Data packages


Data packages in Dynamics consist of logically grouped data entities. In a simpler way, a data package contains one or more entities or groups of data entities. Lifecycle Services (LCS) contains multiple base data packages that you can use to reduce implementation time during the project. These packages also be used to prepare your system in much less time with demo/real data. These packages can contain the elements that are required in each module/area in order to meet the minimum requirements. As per business requirements or advanced business processes, you might have to add more entities to the list of packages.

Getting ready...

The data packages that Microsoft publishes on LCS use a numbering sequence that is based on the module, data type, and sequence. Here is an example:

  • Module/area numbering:

  • Data type numbering:

  • Numbering format:

The names of data packages include the numbering format, which is followed by the module abbreviation and then a description. For example, the...