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Extending Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Operations Cookbook

By : Simon Buxton
Book Image

Extending Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Operations Cookbook

By: Simon Buxton

Overview of this book

Dynamics 365 for Operations is the ERP element of Microsoft’s new Dynamics 365 Enterprise Edition. Operations delivers the infrastructure to allow businesses to achieve growth and make better decisions using scalable and contemporary ERP system tools. This book provides a collection of “recipes” to instruct you on how to create—and extend—a real-world solution using Operations. All key aspects of the new release are covered, and insights into the development language, structure, and tools are discussed in detail. New concepts and patterns that are pivotal to elegant solution designs are introduced and explained, and readers will learn how to extend various aspects of the system to enhance both the usability and capabilities of Operations. Together, this gives the reader important context regarding the new concepts and the confidence to reuse in their own solution designs. This “cookbook” provides the ingredients and methods needed to maximize the efficiency of your business management using the latest in ERP software—Dynamics 365 for Operations.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Creating a sample workflow design

Let's test the elements we have created. The following workflow design is only intended to test the workflow we have created, and omits many of the features that we would normally use. We will also use the same user for submission and approval, and you will see that appear to be waiting for the workflow engine as we test. This seems a problem at first glance, but in real-life scenarios, this is fine. In practice, the tasks and approvals are performed by different users and are not done as a series of tasks. They will receive a notification, and they can then perform that action and pass the ball back to the workflow engine.

Getting ready

Before we start, ensure that the project is built and synchronized with the database.

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