Book description
Gain useful insights to help you efficiently build, test, and migrate customized solutions on Business Central cloud and on-premise platforms
Key Features
- Explore enhanced functionalities and development best practices in Business Central
- Develop powerful Business Central projects using the AL language
- Master the new Business Central with easy-to-follow recipes
Book Description
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is a complete business management solution that can help you streamline business processes, connect individual departments in your company, and enhance customer interactions.
Ok. That first part was really professional sounding, right? Now, let's get into what this cookbook is going to do for you: put simply, it's going to help you get things done. This book will help you get to grips with the latest development features and tools for building applications using Business Central. You'll find recipes that will guide you in developing and testing applications that can be deployed to the cloud or on-premises. For the old-schoolers out there, you'll also learn how to take your existing Dynamics NAV customizations and move them to the new AL language platform.
Also, if you haven't figured it out already, we're going to be using very normal language throughout the book to keep things light. After all, developing applications is fun, so why not have fun learning as well!
What you will learn
- Build and deploy Business Central applications
- Use the cloud or local sandbox for application development
- Customize and extend your base Business Central application
- Create external applications that connect to Business Central
- Create automated tests and debug your applications
- Connect to external web services from Business Central
Who this book is for
This book is for Dynamics developers and administrators who want to become efficient in developing and deploying applications in Business Central. Basic knowledge and understanding of Dynamics application development and administration is assumed.
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright and Credits
- Dedication
- About Packt
- Contributors
- Preface
- Let's Get the Basics out of the Way
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Customizing What's Already There
- Technical requirements
- Adding fields to base application tables
- Modifying the base application interface
- Modifying the base application business logic
- Using In-client Designer
- Using Event Recorder
- Replacing base application reports
- Adding new profiles and role centers
- Adding filter tokens
- Adding application areas
- Let's Go Beyond
- Testing and Debugging - You Just Gotta Do It
- Old School, Meet New School
- Making Your App Extensible
-
Business Central for All
- Technical requirements
- Consuming external web services
- Publishing your own web service
- Enabling basic authentication
- The Business Central API – exploring with Postman
- The Business Central API – retrieving data
- The Business Central API – creating data
- The Business Central API – publishing a custom endpoint
- Power Platform – using Microsoft Power BI
- Power Platform – using Microsoft Flow
- Power Platform – using Microsoft PowerApps
- Consuming Azure Functions
- DevOps - Don't Live without It
- Time to Share Your Application!
- Other Books You May Enjoy
Product information
- Title: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Cookbook
- Author(s):
- Release date: August 2019
- Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
- ISBN: 9781789958546
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