Custom Data Entity D365FO

Custom Data Entity in few steps

Step -1
Create New Project and Create a Table like below 

Step-2 

Now add 4 fields. Name, Age, ClassName and RollNumber. After this create an index add two fields RollNumber and className.


Reference: Screenshot

Step-3 

Right-click on the table and navigate to Addin and select Create Data Entity.

Step-4  

if you are facing the error Natural key is not found like the below screenshot.

Step-5 

Go to Table and change the primary index with your newly created index.

Step-6 

Now perform step-3 again... Hope everything will work fine for you.

Extension Cases-

If you have the requirement to create a Systems Out of the box table entity and you are facing the same natural key error then there is another way to create a data entity of the required table.

As we all know we can't change the primary index in Table extensions.. check the below screenshot Primary index field showing disable.

Step-1 Copy any existing Entity 

Step-2 Remove data source, Fields, relations indexes, Methods and groups

Step-3 Add Invent Trans add the required field and make index

Step-4 set the properties like below images

Step-5 Now regenerate the staging table

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