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Extending Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Operations Cookbook

By : Simon Buxton
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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)

Extending standard data entities

Extensibility is becoming more and more pervasive in the development paradigm of Dynamics 365 for Operations, and it is important to be able to have extensible data entities; otherwise, we would have to write new ones to be able to use a field we added to a table as an extension.

In this example, we will create an extension for the Released product creation entity, named EcoResReleasedProductCreationEntity.

Getting ready

Part of this recipe is to add an extension field so we can import data into it, so the first part is to create an extension for the InventTable table with a new field. This is optional, but is included in order to demonstrate how this is done.

To follow this optional step, create a table extension for the InventTable...