Staging
Concept
You can use the staging concept to validate data in an intermediate area before it is further processed.
This is usually used to import data into D365 FO from another system. In this way, you can validate the data before it is written into the D365 FO database.
Examples where you can apply a staging journal are:
- Incoming sales orders from customers.
- Incoming purchase order confirmations from vendors.
- Incoming items, BOMs, and routes from a PLM application.
A staging scenario consists of:
- A message to import the data from the source into the staging journal. This message has a target document of type Staging and a target connector of type Staging journal.
- A staging journal which is an additional table in which the data is validated and approved before the data is imported into the target. Usually, the target is D365 FO.
- A message to get the approved data from the staging journal and process it. Usually, the approved data is imported into D365 FO. This message has a source document of type Staging and a source connector of type Staging journal. If the data must be imported into D365 FO, the target connector is of type D365 FO and the target document is one of the internal document types, usually D365 FO.
This picture shows the staging process and related setup for data to be imported in D365 FO: