Extending microsoft business central with power platform leverage power platform to create scalable business central solutions with high business value
Discover how you can extend the capabilities of Business Central by building and deploying Power Platform solutions Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook Key Features Unlock the full potential of Business Central using Power Platform, including Power Apps, Power Automation,...
| Otros Autores: | , |
|---|---|
| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Birmingham, England :
Packt Publishing Ltd
[2023]
|
| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Materias: | |
| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009764837606719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright and Credits
- Dedication
- Contributors
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Part 1 - Part Fundamentals
- Chapter 1: Business Central and Power Platform - Better Together
- Technical requirements
- How Business Central and Power Platform are better together
- Setting up your development environment
- Business use case - the K&
- S Solutions Inc. company
- The Business Central and Power Platform ecosystem
- Power Pages
- Power Virtual Agents
- Power Automate
- Power Apps
- Summary
- Chapter 2: Getting to Know Business Central APIs
- Technical requirements
- An introduction to Business Central APIs
- How to connect to Business Central APIs
- Configuring Azure Active Directory for OAuth use with Postman and Business Central
- Adding API permissions
- Creating your first GET request in Postman
- Exercise 2.1 - using Postman to call an API in Business Central
- What are the limits of working with APIs?
- Tips and tricks to work with APIs and Business Central
- Summary
- Chapter 3: Connecting to Business Central in the Cloud and On-Premises
- Key differences between connecting to Business Central versus on-premises
- Connecting to Business Central on-premises
- Connecting to Business Central in the cloud
- Building a Power Automate flow
- Summary
- Chapter 4: Working with Virtual Tables and Dataverse
- Technical requirements
- Introduction to Microsoft Dataverse
- Setting up a Power Platform environment
- Creating a new table in Dataverse
- Integration between Dataverse and Business Central
- Understanding virtual tables
- Virtual tables - key benefits
- Virtual table restrictions and limitations
- Setting up virtual tables
- Creating a model-driven app
- Building the model-driven app
- Summary
- Further reading.
- Part 2 - Doing the Work of Designing, Building, and Implementing
- Chapter 5: Best Practices for Building Power Apps for Business Central
- Technical requirements
- Exercise for creating the Contact canvas app
- Citizen developers versus pro developers
- Different types of Power Apps and deciding which type of app to create
- Data sources and their different types
- Repeatable components
- Reference apps
- Fluent Theme Designer
- How to import components
- Creating a canvas app
- Customizing fields, labels, and descriptions
- Summary
- Further reading
- Chapter 6: Building Flows for Business Central
- Technical requirements
- Well-documented business process flows
- Triggers and actions for Power Automate
- Exercise - creating a flow for a new vendor
- Building a Power Automate flow from scratch
- Using a Business Event in a Power Automate flow
- Inserting a record into BC using Power Automate
- Advanced Power Automate setups
- Best practices
- Summary
- Chapter 7: Delivering Solutions
- ALM for admin, citizen, and pro developers
- Environment overview
- Solutions
- Types of solutions
- Solution components
- Creating solutions
- Summary
- Further reading
- Part 3 - Common Business Cases in Business Central for the Power Platform
- Chapter 8: Automating Approvals and Reducing Manual Business Processes
- Technical requirements
- Setting up approvals in Business Central
- Configuring your environment for approvals
- Importing users into Business Central
- Configuring the approval process in Business Central
- Setting up Power Automate integration
- How to enable Power Automate in Business Central by user
- How to enable Power Automate permission in Business Central by user(s)
- Exercise for setting up purchase approvals using a Power Automate template
- Common troubleshooting tips for approvals.
- Summary
- Chapter 9: Connecting Power BI for Business Central Data
- Technical requirements
- Exercise for creating a Power BI report and dashboard
- Enabling Power BI reports within Business Central
- Adding additional Power BI reports to the Business Central home screen
- Connecting to data in Power BI using out-of-the-box APIs
- Reviewing different visuals and publishing reports
- Power BI visuals
- Power BI report editor
- Publishing the report
- Dashboard
- Summary
- Further reading
- Chapter 10: Extending Functionality by Using Several Power Platform Solutions
- Extending functionality in Business Central using several Power Platform solutions
- Case study - creating a Power Apps app from Power BI Desktop
- Case study - a new item setup
- Creating a solution
- Best practices to extend functionality in BC using several Power Platform solutions
- Summary
- Part 4 - Tips and Tricks for Common Issues
- Chapter 11: User Adoption and Licensing Mapping Guide
- User adoption
- Envision
- Onboarding
- Scale
- Adoption best practices
- Power Platform Maturity Model
- Microsoft 365 plans and licensing
- The Microsoft 365 admin center
- Business Central license
- Power Platform license
- Summary
- Further reading
- Chapter 12: Understanding the Center of Excellence and Why It Is a Valuable Tool
- Technical requirements
- Center of Excellence
- Creating a dedicated environment to run a CoE and import a CoE solution
- Importing the Creator Kit and CoE solution
- Additional admin tools and monitoring Power BI dashboards
- Power BI dashboards
- Production CoE dashboard
- Governance and audit compliance processes
- Business Central plus Power Platform
- Summary
- Further reading
- Index
- About Packt
- Other Books You May Enjoy.
