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

How to do it...

To create a data entity extension, follow these steps:

1. In the Application Explorer, expand Data Model and then Data Entities. Right-click on EcoResReleasedProductCreationV2Entity and select Create extension.
2. To add more context to this extension, rename the extension part (after the dot) to the project's name, such as ConVMSVehicleManagement. Although in our case the project and the package have a very similar name, this is not usually the case, so it is good practice to think that we would always change the extension portion of the name.

After examining the Data Sources node, we can see that it is not based directly on InventTable, but on a data entity. We will, therefore, need to create an extension for this before we ...