Customization and Development Environment with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Customization and Development Environment Course

Advantages of the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Customization and Development Environment Course

Prerequisites

Who is this course for?

This course is aimed at functional consultants from NAV, D365 BC, or other ERPs who wish to learn about the main customization and development possibilities offered by Business Central with VSC. It will analyze the components of an Extension, as well as an overview of the development environment.

Training Objectives. What will you learn?

• Understand the Business Central customization and development environment
• Manage isolated environments 
• Use Visual Studio Code with extensions and AL language
• Work with tables and pages
• Handle data
• Create reports 
• Manage BC security and permissions
• Implement CodeUnits, events, and triggers for integration with Procedures
• Use DevOps in BC projects
• Create custom APIs
• Execute a project with objects and extensions

Course Content - Program

Unit 1: Development Environments and AL: Visual Studio Code: Overview

• Introduction to the customization and development environment
• Creating isolated environments
• Base extensions
• Creating an extension
• Integration with the BC environment
• Extensions and AL
• Practice 1: Creating the development environment
• Practice 2: Creating a Sandbox
• Practice 3: Integrating the VSC environment with Business Central

Unit 2: Using tables and pages

• Creating objects in Business Central
• Main utilities
• Configuration Table
• Page 
• Practice creating a page and configuration table
• Create the client table extension object
• Table, list page, and card page
• Practice 1: Creating Extensions with components
• Practice 2: Creating tables and pages

Unit 3: Introduction to programming with AL language, use of events and reports

• Identifiers, syntax, and variables
• Data types
• Arrays
• Lists
• Assignments
• Expressions in Business Central
• Functions in AL
• Reports and reporting
• Examples of BC extensions with AL
• Practice 1: Data handling and types
• Practice 2: Creating reports

Unit 4: Rights and Permission Sets. Development Standards in Business Central

• Introduction to permission sets
• Creating rights and permission sets
• Characteristics of functional tables
• The data processing model
• Master data
• Document standards
• Practice 1: Implementing a data processing model
• Practice 2: Adding tables and pages for master data
• Practice 3: Creating sample documents

  Unit 5: CodeUnits, events, and triggers

• CodeUnit Concepts
• Creating and accessing a CodeUnit
• Events
• Table and field triggers
• Page triggers
• Control and action triggers
• Working with Web services
• Practice 1: Using triggers and CodeUnit
• Practice 2: Creating local and global Procedures
• Practice 3: Calling CodeUnits
• Practice 4: Creating CodeUnits with a VSC extension

 Unit 6: Integrate DevOps and Business Central

• Create DevOps
• Kanban board
• Git repositories
• Synchronize repositories with Visual Studio Code
• Creating pipelines with YAML
• Practice 1: DevOps configuration and Kanban board creation
• Practice 2: Code synchronization with GIT
• Practice 3: Installing and running the Test Toolkit

Unit 7: Integrations with Dynamics 365 Business Central

D365 BC APIs

Comparison of OData and APIs

Using standard D365 BC APIs

Creating a custom API in D365 BC

Implementing a new API for a custom and an existing entity

Creating an application that uses D365 BC APIs

Project Creation

The project will add new objects and extensions to the base application for a bonus feature for customers. Each section of this project includes code that serves to install, customize, or update this sample extension. The final result will be published in the Sandbox.

The activities to be carried out are:

• Develop a sample extension with a table, a card page, and a list page.
• Implementation of the sample extension in the development sandbox environment.
• Using Dynamics 365 Business Central Designer to modify visual aspects of the extension.
• Creating extension objects that can be used to modify page and table objects.
• Database initialization during extension installation.
• Updating and preserving data during extension update

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If you want to take this course virtually, you can purchase it at the top of the product page. For any questions, please contact us.

If you want to take this course in classroom or telepresence mode, please contact us:

• Email: info@nanforiberica.com 
• Phone:  +34 91 031 66 78
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