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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

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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