As a new customer is entered in Dynamics 365 Business Central, the user can decide to enter a domain name instead of the name, which leads to the system looking up the information for the company associated with this domain name from a Web Service and filling out the remaining fields on the customer card with information obtained from the Web Service. 

Expected result

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Pre-requisites

To complete this challenge, you will need:

• A Dynamics 365 Business Central Development Environment
  • Use http://aka.ms/getbc to create an Azure VM.
  • Use NavContainerHelper to spin up a Business Central Container locally.
• Visual Studio Code with the AL Extension installed
  • Azure VMs will have VS Code pre-installed
• An API Key from http://www.fullcontact.com

Steps

• Create an empty app
• Create a page extension for the customer card
• On the OnAfterValidate trigger on the Name field, check whether the entered value is a domain name
• Ask the user whether he wants to lookup information about the company associated with this domain name
• Call the fullcontact Web API and assign field values

Hints

• In VS Code, use Ctrl+Shift+P and type AL GO and remove the customerlist page extension
• Use the tpageext snippet
• Use string.EndsWith to check whether the name is a domain name
• Use the Confirm method to ask whether the user want to download info
• Use HttpClient to communicate with the Web Service
• Use Json types (JsonObject, JsonToken, JsonArray and JsonValue) to extract values from the Web Service result

Cheat Sheets

• Create an empty app
• Create a page extension
• Code for communicating with Web Service
• Update the customer

Enjoy

Freddy Kristiansen

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