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Published inMar 2020
PublisherPackt
ISBN-139781838643812
Edition2nd Edition
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Simon Buxton
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 a data entity with an Edit in Excel experience

In this task, we will create a data entity for our vehicle table, which we will extend in order to demonstrate how data entities can be used. We will also use this to allow us to maintain vehicle data through the Office add-in and make it a public OData entity.

Getting ready

We will just need to have an SCM project open, and a table for which we want to create a data entity.

How to do it...

To create the data entity, follow these steps:

  1. Before we start, we need to check that the table we are going to use has a natural...
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Extending Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management Cookbook - Second Edition
Published in: Mar 2020Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781838643812

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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