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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

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781786468864

Length 480 pages

Edition 4th Edition

Languages

X++

Tools

Dynamics 365

Concepts

IT Operations

Authors (2):

Abhimanyu Singh

Agarwal

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Authors

About the Reviewer

www.PacktPub.com

Customer Feedback

Dedication

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

Building the browse for folder lookup

In Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, file reading or saving is a very common operation. Normally, for non-automated operations, the system prompts the user for file input.

This recipe will demonstrate how the user can be presented with the file browse dialog box in order to choose the files in a convenient way.

Folder browsing lookups can be used when the user is required to specify a local or a network folder, to store or retrieve external files. Such lookups are generated in Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations using the File upload control.

In this recipe, we will learn how to create a lookup for folder browsing. As an example, we will create a new field and control named Documents on the Vendor parameters form, which will allow us to store a folder path.

How to do it...

Create a new project. Open AOT, add a VendParameters table for customization, and create a new field with the following properties:

Property	Value
Type	String
Name	DocumentPath
Label...

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Authors (2)

Abhimanyu Singh

Abhimanyu Singh

Abhimanyu Singh works as a Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations consultant. Since the start of his career in 2012, he has worked in the development and designing of business solutions for customers in supply chain management, banking, and finance domain using Microsoft technologies. He has several certifications, including the Microsoft Certified Dynamics Specialist certification.

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Agarwal

Agarwal

Deepak Agarwal is a Microsoft Certified Professional who has more than 6 years of relevant experience. He has worked with different versions of Axapta, such as AX 2009, AX 2012, and Dynamics 365. He has had a wide range of development, consulting, and leading roles, while always maintaining a significant role as a business application developer. Although his strengths are rooted in X++ development, he is a highly regarded developer and expert in the technical aspects of Dynamics AX development and customization. He has also worked on base product development with the Microsoft team. He was awarded the Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award from Microsoft for Dynamics AX four times in a row, and he has held this title since 2013. He shares his experience with Dynamics AX on his blog: Axapta V/s Me Deepak has also worked on the following Packt books: Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3 Reporting Cookbook Dynamics AX 2012 Reporting Cookbook Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Programming: Getting Started

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