Extending Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management Cookbook - Second Edition
by Simon Buxton
How it works...
There is a lot to the DIXF, some of which we will cover further in the next recipe.
The main step we took in this recipe was to refresh the data entities. This builds the data entity tables from the metadata of the data entity that was defined in code. Without this step, the entity might not appear if it is new, or if it was changed, the data entity could be out of date with the physical entity and staging table data structures.
The next step was to export a sample dataset to Excel. This is to provide us with a spreadsheet that we can use to populate new records.
Once we had populated the spreadsheet, we then created a new import project to import the spreadsheet. The file is imported as a blob into the import project. The ...
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