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Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations Development Cookbook

You're reading from   Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations Development Cookbook Recipes to explore forms, look-ups and different integrations like Power BI and MS Office for your business solutions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786468864
Length 480 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Deepak Agarwal Deepak Agarwal
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Deepak Agarwal
Abhimanyu Singh Abhimanyu Singh
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Processing Data FREE CHAPTER 2. Working with Forms 3. Working with Data in Forms 4. Building Lookups 5. Processing Business Tasks 6. Data Management 7. Integration with Microsoft Office 8. Integration with Power BI 9. Integration with Services 10. Improving Development Efficiency and Performance

Caching a display method

In Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, display methods are still used in some places to show additional information on forms or reports such as fields, calculations, and more. Although they are shown as physical fields, their values are a result of the methods to which they are bound.

The display methods are executed each time the form is redrawn. This means that the more complex the method is, the longer it will take to display it on the screen. Hence, it is always recommended to keep the code in the display methods to a minimum.

The performance of the display methods can be improved by caching them. This is when a display method's return value is retrieved from a database or calculated only once and subsequent calls are made to the cache.

In this recipe, we will create a new cached display method for the PaymentTerm description. We will also...

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