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

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The extent to which application objects (such as forms, tables, and data entities) are extensible will evolve with each release. Currently, we can add data sources, ranges, relations, field groups, and table maps to data entities. We cannot add new methods or change existing ones, as this would result in no practical difference to an over-layer (except it could be worse, as no tooling would exist for conflict management). Instead, we would use a chain of command or preferably subscribe to the many event delegates.

When subscribing to events, you will need to read the original code. Sometimes the data is transferred using an insert_recordset statement, where the fields are written literally into the code.

This causes two problems: ...