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Published inMar 2020
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ISBN-139781838643812
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Simon Buxton
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Simon Buxton

Simon Buxton has worked with Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management since its earliest incarnations, starting with the product in early 1999 when Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management was known as Damgaard Axapta 1.5. Simon has been the technical lead on many highly challenging technical projects in countries all around the world. These projects included complex integrations with on-premises and external systems, ISV solutions, and many technically challenging customer solutions. Now working with Binary, he was part of a team that implemented the first Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management implementation as part of the Community Technical Preview (CTP) program, which led to the close working relationship with Microsoft that made this book possible
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Creating tiles with counters for the workspace

Tiles are used as entry points to a form while also having the ability to show information about the data at hand. They can act as prompts for actions and are presented on the tile section of a workspace, as shown in the following screenshot:

The page that opens when you first sign into SCM is also a list of tiles, and each opens a workspace. The workspace will have an image resource that we can design. A key guideline is that all the graphics are minimalistic. All solutions should look and feel as if they are part of the standard solution.

Getting ready

This recipe can be used to create a tile for any form and is usually done for Details Master and Details Transaction to show...

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Simon Buxton

Simon Buxton has worked with Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management since its earliest incarnations, starting with the product in early 1999 when Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management was known as Damgaard Axapta 1.5. Simon has been the technical lead on many highly challenging technical projects in countries all around the world. These projects included complex integrations with on-premises and external systems, ISV solutions, and many technically challenging customer solutions. Now working with Binary, he was part of a team that implemented the first Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management implementation as part of the Community Technical Preview (CTP) program, which led to the close working relationship with Microsoft that made this book possible
Read more about Simon Buxton