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

By : Simon Buxton
Book Image

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)

Adding a form display method to a standard form

We can add display methods to tables and forms using extension classes. The table route is preferred, as tables are reusable. We sometimes need to add display methods to a form because some information is only available when the form is built, such as data on the form's data sources.

This is a limitation in that the display methods on forms cannot be added to the data source object, and they don't currently accept a record as a parameter. For this reason, they can only use the current record of a data source and cannot, therefore, be used as on-grid controls—they would show the same values on all rows.

In our case, we will write a display method to show information from a service order, in order to state that new orders will be attached to the service order. Of course, if this is intended as a warning, it needs...