Managing creation of ZIP files for data packages for D365F&O, using Azure functions
Background Managing data operations using Data Packages is one of the very common execution strategies for any D365F&O implementation. A data package for a finance and operations app can consist of one or many data entities. A typical data package consists of a group of entities for a specific task, process, or function . For example, the data entities that are required for general ledger setup might be part of one data package. Importing data that are required for customer creation (e.g. customer group, payment terms, payment methods, reason codes, customers) could be another data package. It’s a very common requirement to make the data packages be exchanged as a part of integration. We could have an external system that a. drops files on a shared FTP site b. drops files on a blob storage c. sends mailers containing file content d. ...