Understanding a dependent extension

In the previous sections, we developed our extension and deployed it.

Imagine now that you've deployed this extension to a customer tenant and now the customer asks you for some customization:

  • They want to add the Certification No. field to the Vendor Quality table.
  • They want to change the gift assignment logic by always assigning a fixed gift quantity of 2.

To create a customization for your customer, you should never directly modify your standard extension code, but instead, you should create a new extension that will be dependent on your base extension.

To do this, we create a new extension project in Visual Studio Code called PacktDemoDependencyExtension. This new extension must be dependent on our ...

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