1. Introduction to developing with finance and operations apps
As a developer working with finance and operations apps, it's important to have a firm grasp of the main architecture components of the Dynamics 365 ecosystem and finance and operations apps. Knowledge of core developer concepts, including technical capabilities, source code, testing frameworks, and reporting tools, will support your further efforts in building development skills that you can apply to finance and operations apps.
2. Build finance and operations apps
Developing in finance and operations apps requires a basic understanding of the tasks required to build new elements and customize finance and operations apps. The tasks include understanding X++ code and Visual Studio, as well as being able to create and modify the basic elements of the system.
3. Extend finance and operations apps
Extensions allow developers to make changes to the user experience in finance and operations apps by implementing modifications to the code that do not affect the base code. Among other benefits, extensions let developers update finance and operations apps to adhere to business processes and required changes.
4. Connect to finance and operations apps
Integration and the ability to access your data in finance and operations apps are important capabilities. Developers who have learned to build and extend code in finance and operations apps can enhance their knowledge of development by learning about data integration and how connecting to data can have positive impacts on users.
5. Migrate data and go live with finance and operations apps
As a functional consultant, you must understand how to prepare your customer's data for migration, work with data management, and perform user acceptance testing to go live with finance and operations apps.
6. Configure and work with analytics and reporting in finance and operations apps
Business leaders can make important decisions in their company if they have accurate insight into the underlying financial and operational data. A business user can also configure, and use the electronic reporting tool without a single line of code, to adopt new regulatory requirements and generate business documents in the required format to electronically exchange information with government bodies, banks, and other parties.