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Extending Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Operations Cookbook

You're reading from   Extending Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Operations Cookbook Create and extend real-world solutions using Dynamics 365 Operations

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786467133
Length 442 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Starting a New Project 2. Data Structures FREE CHAPTER 3. Creating the User Interface 4. Application Extensibility, Form Code-Behind, and Frameworks 5. Business Intelligence 6. Security 7. Leveraging Extensibility 8. Data Management, OData, and Office 9. Consuming and Exposing Services 10. Extensibility Through Metadata and Data Date-Effectiveness 11. Unit Testing 12. Automated Build Management 13. Servicing Your Environment 14. Workflow Development 15. State Machines

Creating a workflow approval

A workflow approval is an element that allows approval tasks to be routed, which can be approved or rejected. The design can then use this outcome in order to trigger tasks, or simply inform the user. The workflow approval status is persisted as a field on the document record (that is, the vehicle record in our case), in the same way that the workflow type does.

As a result of this, there are often two fields on the workflow's main table, one for workflow document state, and another for workflow element state. In some cases, such as human resource workflows, the Base Enum is combined into one field. This can seem confusing, but when the workflow status field is properly defined, it simplifies the process.

We cannot create extensions for workflow elements, so we cannot use workflow types created by other parties without customization (over-layering).
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