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Extending Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Simon Buxton
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Extending Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Simon Buxton

Overview of this book

Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management is Microsoft’s ERP solution, which can be implemented as a cloud or on-premise solution to facilitate better decision-making with the help of contemporary, scalable ERP system tools. This book is updated with the latest features of Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management including Chain of Command (CoC), Acceptance Test Libraries (ATL), and Business Events. The book not only features more than 100 tutorials that allow you to create and extend business solutions, but also addresses specific problems and offers solutions with insights into how they work. This cookbook starts by helping you set up a Azure DevOps project and taking you through the different data types and structures used to create tables. You will then gain an understanding of user interfaces, write extensible code, manage data entities, and even model Dynamics 365 ERP for security. As you advance, you’ll learn how to work with various in-built Dynamics frameworks such as SysOperation, SysTest, and Business Events. Finally, you’ll get to grips with automated build management and workflows for better application state management. By the end of this book, you’ll have become proficient in packaging and deploying end-to-end scalable solutions with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

Data Management, OData, and Office

Data integration with other applications is a very important part of Finance and Supply Chain Management (SCM). It is a cloud-first ERP solution, and this means that it has to provide secure ways to manage its data. As part of the implementation data usually has to be imported, and after that, we will often wish to import and export data from SCM, we may also wish to integrate with other applications, such as Excel, or access data from SCM in our internal on-premise applications.

Although SCM provides many data integration features out of the box, we will usually have to extend or write new entities. The topics covered in this chapter provide the recipes that are commonly used to access our data in terms of both integration and for use in Edit in Excel experiences. The following topics are covered:

  • Creating a data entity with an Edit in Excel...