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Extending Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management Cookbook

You're reading from   Extending Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management Cookbook Create and extend secure and scalable ERP solutions to improve business processes

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838643812
Length 534 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Preface 1. Starting a New Project 2. Data Structures FREE CHAPTER 3. Creating the User Interface 4. Working with Form Logic and Frameworks 5. Application Extensibility 6. Writing for Extensibility 7. Advanced Data Handling 8. Business Events 9. Security 10. Data Management, OData, and Office 11. Consuming and Exposing Services 12. Unit Testing 13. Automated Build Management 14. Workflow Development 15. State Machines 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using Chain of Command with a form

The forms in SCM can contain a lot of code that we may wish to augment to suit a specific requirement. We have added a service ID field to the sales order, so it may seem a fair requirement to default the service ID if it were called from a service order.

When a form is opened, an args object is passed. If we add the SalesTable menu item to our service order form, and set the dataset to the service order, the args object will be constructed with a reference to this record. We can use this to filter a list of sales orders or use it in the form to set defaults on a new sales order record.

How to do it...

First, we will add the sales order menu item to our service order, and then use the Chain...

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