Extending Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management Cookbook - Second Edition

How it works...

There are a few steps here, some iterative. The basic steps are as follows:

1. Create a connection to the Service Bus with the connection string.
2. Create a flow to read the Service Bus.
3. Use the initialize variable task in order to cast the inbound message as a string. This is because the Service Bus message will be base64 encoded, which the Parse JSON task cannot read.
4. Use Parse JSON in order to deserialize the data into information that we can use later in the flow.

We can create approvals, send a formatted email, or send the data to the production control system.

The last part can be difficult when we consider security implications. As Microsoft Flow runs in the cloud, we would, therefore, send a message to a different Service ...