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Mastering Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

Mastering Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

By : Stefano Demiliani, Tacconi
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Mastering Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

Mastering Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

4.9 (17)
By: Stefano Demiliani, Tacconi

Overview of this book

This book dives straight into guiding you through the process of building real-world solutions with the AL language and Visual Studio Code. It emphasizes best practices and extensibility patterns to ensure your extensions are well-structured, maintainable, and meet the needs of modern businesses. You'll learn advanced AL techniques, report creation methods, debugging strategies, and how to leverage telemetries for monitoring. Additionally, it covers performance optimization practices and API integration to help you create efficient and interconnected solutions. With a focus on extension development, this new edition allows you to jump right into coding without spending time on setup processes. This book introduces new chapters covering essential tasks that Business Central developers frequently encounter, such as file handling and printing management. Finally, the book expands its scope by including chapters on various integration aspects, including VS Code extensions, GitHub DevOps, Azure services, and Power Platform integrations. We’ll wrap up by covering Copilot capabilities in Business Central and how you can create your own generative AI copilots. By mastering these concepts and techniques, you'll be well-equipped to create powerful and customized solutions that extend the capabilities of Dynamics 365 Business Central.
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Using OData bound actions

We can use Dynamics 365 Business Central APIs not only to perform CRUD operations on an entity but also to invoke standard business logic defined in the application (both custom and standard code).

We can trigger Dynamics 365 Business Central business logic associated with the current entity via APIs by using OData bound actions. Bound actions are essentially actions that you can invoke via HTTP calls for a selected entity.

Imagine that you want to have an API action to clone a selected customer. This action takes the context of the selected customer and then it creates a new customer record with the same field values (except the Name field).

To do that, we can add a bound action to the previously created Customer API.

To use OData V4 bound actions, you need to declare a procedure in the API page decored with the [ServiceEnabled] attribute. The procedure is defined as follows:

    [ServiceEnabled]
    procedure Clone (var ActionContext...

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