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Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801811590

Length 274 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Dynamics 365

Concepts

Enterprise Resource Planning

Author (1):

Adrià Ariste Santacreu

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations and Power Platform FREE CHAPTER

2. Chapter 1: Dynamics 365 F&O and Low-Code Development

3. Chapter 2: Dual-Write and Virtual Tables

4. Part 2: Extending Dynamics 365 F&O with Power Platform

5. Chapter 3: Power Automate Flows in Dynamics 365

6. Chapter 4: Replacing F&O Processes with Power Automate

7. Chapter 5: Building Automations and Integrations

8. Chapter 6: Power Apps: What’s in it for Finance and Operations Consultants?

9. Chapter 7: Extending F&O Apps with Power Apps

10. Chapter 8: Power BI Reporting for Dynamics 365 F&O Apps

11. Part 3: Adding AI to Your Flows and Apps

12. Chapter 9: Integrating AI Builder

13. Part 4: Dataverse and Power Platform ALM

14. Chapter 10: Environment Management

15. Chapter 11: Solution Management

16. Index

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Scenarios for virtual tables

We’ve learned about Dual-write, one of the native ways to integrate F&O data with Dataverse. Now it’s time to learn about virtual tables, earlier known as virtual entities. virtual tables are a Dataverse concept that’s not exclusive to F&O. It’s a virtual data source that can display data from several different sources in Dataverse.

The most important feature of virtual tables is that the data is not present in Dataverse; we only see a representation of the data from the external system in Dataverse. In the case of Dynamics 365 F&O, we will be able to consume data from the public virtual entities in F&O from Dataverse, but the data will be kept in F&O.

Does this mean we can only read data using virtual tables? No! We can perform all CRUD operations and more: