In this chapter, we will cover the tasks required to write the data dictionary elements commonly used within Operations development.
Data structures in Operations are not just tables and views, but also include the ability to define a data dictionary. This is now called the Data Model in Operations. The data model hasn't changed much in structure since AX 2012, but is much more refined with many more features to aid development and minimize the footprint when extending standard tables and types.
This chapter does not cover creating extensions of standard types, but it does cover how to create types that allow your structures to be extensible. Extensibility is covered in Extending standard tables without customization footprint section of Chapter 7, Leveraging Extensibility .
Most development in Operations is based on patterns, even if we are not aware of it. For example, the Vendor and Customer...
