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

Deciding between data-events or Chain of Command

When writing data-event handlers, we must also take into account Chain of Command extensions. The Using Chain of Command to initialize data recipe shows an alternative to using data-events.

In this specific case, I would opt for Chain of Command, and the decision is based on many factors, including the following:

• Looking up data in order tables, where there is an InitFrom method for that table that can be used instead.
• Is the data likely to be inserted using a set-based operation with triggers disabled, such as insert_recordset? These are common in journal and transaction tables, and when data is inserted or updated through a data entity.

Data-events are ideal on main and worksheet tables, ...