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Extending Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Operations Cookbook

You're reading from   Extending Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Operations Cookbook Create and extend real-world solutions using Dynamics 365 Operations

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786467133
Length 442 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Starting a New Project FREE CHAPTER 2. Data Structures 3. Creating the User Interface 4. Application Extensibility, Form Code-Behind, and Frameworks 5. Business Intelligence 6. Security 7. Leveraging Extensibility 8. Data Management, OData, and Office 9. Consuming and Exposing Services 10. Extensibility Through Metadata and Data Date-Effectiveness 11. Unit Testing 12. Automated Build Management 13. Servicing Your Environment 14. Workflow Development 15. State Machines

Creating aggregate data entities

Aggregate data entities allow us to use aggregate measures in the same way we would use a table. They can also be used to expose the aggregate data through OData. This example will be used to create a chart form part in the next recipe.

Getting ready

We will need an aggregate measure for this, so we are following on from the previous two recipes.

How to do it...

To create the aggregate data entity, follow these steps:

  1. Create new item by choosing Analytics from the left pane of the Add New Item dialog and Aggregated Data Entity from the right. Name the entity ConWHSVehicleServiceDataEntity...
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