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

How it works...

The data entity extension works in a similar way to any other extension—it stores a delta change in an XML definition file that is merged with the base entity when the project is built. Should we look at the entity within the client, which we'll do in the next recipe, we will see that the fields exist as if they were part of the entity.

As it is a mapped field, we don't need to write any special code in order to persist this through the staging table to the target table. The mapping is done based on the field name, and should we forget to add the field to the staging table we will not get a warning. Since this data entity is not public, it can't be used with the Office add-in or through OData; it is intended to be used within ...