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Dual-Write or Virtual Entity over Header/Lines tables

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Posted on by Volodymyr Pavlovskyi 65

Hi community, 

I am trying to find some example on how to create Model-Driven Canvas app in PowerPlatform and synchronise this with Dynamics 365 For Finance. Please note that am I asking this question for 365 For Finance forum as data eventually should be available in 365 for Finance. I have already set up Dual-Write and Virtual Entity, not sure what way we should prefer in future, at this moment my goal is to create some PowerApp canval or model driven to be able to create a header and lines, for example for sales table.

Can you people share some example on how to create power App which will create header+lines data in F&O ? For example when I tried with Sales order I had troubles with assigning generated by number sequence sales order Id.

Please any input would be appreciatied, I tried to google any example and there are some nice articles for dual-write, but they never show how to import SalesTable and SalesLines for example

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  • André Arnaud de Calavon Profile Picture
    André Arnaud de Cal... 303,397 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    Hi Volodymyr,

    The major difference between Dual Write and Virtual Entities is that with Dual Write, there is data storage in Dataverse of the same data and with Virtual Entities the data is only kept in FinOps.

    Dual Write would be the choice if there are physical tables in Dataverse which needs to be synced with FinOps. This is mainly used to link Dynamics 365 CE applications with FinOps. If you only need the data in FinOps, you can use virtual entities.

    Can you explain the troubles you have with the number sequence for sales orders? Do you get errors? Did you use virtual entities and in what way?

  • Harshal Nayak Profile Picture
    Harshal Nayak Microsoft Employee on at

    Hello Volodymyr,

    I would agree to what Andre has mentioned as my understanding is the same.

    Also I came across the following community thread where a power automate/flow was used to create a record.

    https://community.dynamics.com/365/financeandoperations/f/dynamics-365-for-finance-and-operations-forum/290891/create-a-record-from-powerapps

    Regards,

    Harshal

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