There was a question in the Community forum about creating tables in an external databases that would match the schema of F&O data entities. One of the possible approaches is generating SQL code for CREATE TABLE statement. The information about field names, types and such things would be taken from F&O metadata and we already …
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If I need to extra metadata of a D365FO application, my preferred way is the new metadata API. But sometimes the requirement is so simple that it’s sufficient to query source XML files directly. For example, this all what’s needed to get a list of fields from a table (together with their types) and store …
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Somebody asked in the Community forum for examples of display methods in views in the standard D365FO application. It’s not necessary to remember any concrete examples – finding all such methods is very simple. The right tool for this purpose is Metadata search. Open Metadata search (Visual Studio > Dynamics 365 > Metadata search) and …
When working with metadata in Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operation, the usual approach is using the MetadataSupport class. It’s a simplified interface to actual metadata classes, which is easy to use, but it doesn’t expose everything. For instance, it doesn’t return operations of custom services. Nothing is lost, because you still can get all …
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AX 7 (“Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Operations”) offers a new API for getting metadata of AX elements such as tables, form extensions, models and so on. It’s very easy to use, therefore even if you’re very familiar with the old TreeNode API, you should definitely pay attention to this new one. The best place to …