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Case study 4 - ADatum Corporation Background ADatum Corporation is a market leader in the design and distribution of innovative aluminum systems. The company provides services to the architectural…

The correct answer is No; Yes; Yes. Data Entity Properties for Purchase Order Inquiries Context from Requirements The key requirement driving all three property values: > "Purchase order inquiries must be exported using data packages. Users must be able to query using OData but should not be able to update or…

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Case study 4 - ADatum Corporation Background ADatum Corporation is a market leader in the design and distribution of innovative aluminum systems. The company provides services to the architectural, residential, industrial, and home improvement markets in Australia. The company has warehouses in Perth. Sydney, and Melbourne. A team of warehouse employees provides delivery to the customer sites. Current Environment ADatum Corporation currently uses Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009. Customers use email or phone calls to place orders. After the company provides a quote to customers, the customer must agree to the sale price before the company places a sales order. The company is migrating to Dynamics 365 Finance and Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management using a phased rollout strategy to its sites. The company has the Lifecycle services project to manage various environments and releases. The company has the following Finance and Supply Chain Management environments: - Development - Quality assurance (QA) - User acceptance testing (UAT) - Production The company uses Azure DevOps for a code repository. All developers use a development branch to check in code and a release branch to maintain the code for production releases. Requirements. General - Configure a cloud-based development environment for Finance and Supply Chain Management. Enable a code extension that supports updates. - Configure Microsoft-supported version control and an Azure-hosted build pipeline. - Migrate all document handling attachments for the customers to Finance and Supply Chain Management from Dynamics AX 2009. - Audit X++ code for a best practice check. - All new code must be unit tested in a development environment and then validated by the QA team before the code is merged into the Release branch for further releases. Requirements. Business processes - All changes that are deployed to the UAT environment must be approved for code release to production. - The sales manager requires a solution that is extensible to ensure that new master tables document handling attachments are migrated to the new system. - A base class named MigrateAttachment must be designed with methods that all child classes must implement. - A method named processAttachment must be created so that extenders are not able to subscribe to pre-events and post-events. - On the All sales orders list page, two new fields must be added for the total sales order amount. One field uses goods and services tax (GST) and the other field does not use GST. - A process named Populate check data must be designed based on the following: The process must run from the All customers list page and populate a custom table named CustCheckData with 1000 rows. The table must have two fields named CheckNumber and BankNumber. The process must return to the current session after the data is processed. - The generated check data must be available for users to access in a tabular form without additional details and preview panes. - The purchase manager requires a new data entity to send out the information for purchase order inquiries that are generated in Finance and Supply Chain Management - The sales manager must be able to access the total quotation for the sites and item types. - The sales manager requires a quotation number to be printed on the sales invoice business document. Customers must be able to access the reference number on the invoice documents. - The purchase manager requires a new approval workflow for approving purchase orders that are more than $10,000. Requirements. Business systems - After a user named UserA posts a packing slip for a sales order, customers must be informed of the product delivery in real-time. This information is provided using business events. - Purchase order inquiries must be exported from the Finance and Supply Chain Management using data packages. Users must be able to query using OData but should not be able to update or create the data in the system. - A sales manager's workspace must display the total quotations using key performance indicators. - The purchase order approval workflow must be configured from the procurement and sourcing module. Issues - UserA reports delays when opening the All sales orders list page. - A customer is unable to access the business events for a packing slip that is posted by UserA. - A user named UserB reports that the system is unresponsive when they run the Populate check data process for a customer. - UserA reports that the print management settings in the accounts receivable module do not display the new layout when testing a new sales invoice report layout in the UAT environment. Drag and Drop Question You need to design the new data entity for the purchase order inquiries records. Which values should you set on the data entity properties? To answer, move the appropriate values to the correct data entity properties. You may use each value once, more than once, or not at all. You may need to move the split bar between panes or scroll to view content. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point. Answer:

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Explanation

Data Entity Properties for Purchase Order Inquiries

Context from Requirements

The key requirement driving all three property values:

"Purchase order inquiries must be exported using data packages. Users must be able to query using OData but should not be able to update or create data in the system."


Property-by-Property Breakdown

Property 1 → No (Write/Edit Capability)

This property controls whether users can create or update records through the entity.

  • The requirement explicitly prohibits updates and creates via OData
  • Setting this to No enforces a read-only contract at the entity level
  • Common mistake: Confusing "read-only for OData" with disabling the entity entirely - the entity still needs to be active and queryable

Property 2 → Yes (Is Public / OData Enabled)

This property exposes the entity through the OData endpoint.

  • The requirement states users must be able to query via OData
  • Setting Is Public = Yes registers the entity with the OData metadata and makes it discoverable at /data/<EntityName>
  • Without this, the entity would only be accessible via data management, not OData queries
  • Common mistake: Forgetting to set this and then wondering why the OData feed doesn't show the entity

Property 3 → Yes (Data Management Enabled)

This property makes the entity available for data package import/export.

  • The requirement says inquiries must be exported using data packages
  • Data Management Enabled = Yes allows the entity to appear in the Data Management workspace and be included in data projects
  • Common mistake: Assuming OData exposure (Is Public = Yes) also enables data packages - these are two separate properties serving different integration channels

Summary Table

PropertyValueDriven By
Allow Create/Update (write capability)No"should not be able to update or create"
Is Public (OData)Yes"able to query using OData"
Data Management EnabledYes"exported using data packages"

Key Insight

OData querying and data package export are independent capabilities in D365 F&SCM - you must opt into both separately. A read-only OData entity that also supports data package export is a common pattern for reporting and integration scenarios like this one.

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#data entities#OData#entity properties#read-only access

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