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Dynamics 365 Business Central Development Quick Start Guide

By : Stefano Demiliani, Duilio Tacconi
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Dynamics 365 Business Central Development Quick Start Guide

By: Stefano Demiliani, Duilio Tacconi

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is the new SaaS ERP proposition from Microsoft. This latest version has many exciting features guaranteed to make your life easier. This book is an ideal guide to Dynamics 365 Business Central and will help you get started with implementing and designing solutions for real-world scenarios. This book will take you through the fundamental topics for implementing solutions based on Dynamics 365 Business Central (on-premise and SaaS). We'll see the core topics of the new development model (based on extensions) and we'll see how to create applications with the new Microsoft ERP proposition. The book begins by explaining the basics of Dynamics 365 Business Central and the Microsoft ERP proposition. We will then cover topics such as extensions, the new modern development model of Visual studio code, sandboxes, Docker, and many others. By the end of the book, you will have learned how to debug and compile extensions and to deploy them to the cloud and on-premise.You will also have learned how to create serverless business processes for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Microsoft Flow


Microsoft Flow is a cloud-based workflow service that permits you to create automated processes across multiple applications without writing any lines of code.

To start using Microsoft Flow with Dynamics 365 Business Central, log in to https://flow.microsoft.com/ and search for Business Central. Here are the available flows:

To create a new workflow, select one of the available templates (here I've selected the Request approval for Dynamics 365 Business Central Sales Order template).

When selected, a wizard starts. It first shows the connected accounts (Dynamics 365 Business Central Office 365), and in the next window, you can graphically compose your flow by inserting the workflow parameters:

Then you can insert the conditions:

If the order is approved, an email is sent to the order creator:

If the order is not approved, a different notification email is sent to the order approval:

Obviously, you can customize this flow as you want to satisfy your business needs, but this is outside...