ccampora / ZipFunction

Function to zip files from a blob Storage to use them with Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations DMF API

ZipFunction

Function to zip files from a blob Storage. The initial purpose of this function is to use it as part of a Logic Apps flow.

Installation

Deploy to Azure

After the deployment is sucessful

Configure a new Blob Storage Account

• Create a new Azure Blob Storage Account -- Yes. Another account. Do not re-use the account created by the Azure functions deployment.
• Create a new container.
• Go to Access Keys and obtain a Connection String
• Create the parameter StorageAccountConnectionString and input the value obtain in the previous step

Testing

Drop some files to zip into the container.

Go to the Azure function and select Code + Test

Replace the body with a proper message. See an example below

Input message example:

{
  "containerpath": "container01", 
  "filelist": [
    "in/2021071156857-08585755930712445680477052973CU30-SalesOrderHeaderV2Entity.csv,SalesOrderHeaderV2Entity.csv",
    "in/2021071156857-08585755930712445680477052973CU30-SalesOrderLineV2Entity.csv,SalesOrderLineV2Entity.csv",
    "config-files/salesorders/Manifest.xml,Manifest.xml",
    "config-files/salesorders/PackageHeader.xml,PackageHeader.xml"
  ],
  "zipfilename": "in/zipFile/2021071156857-08585755930712445680477052973CU30.zip"
}

Optional use the parameter "validatezip" to check if the final package contains validate data file extensions.

  "validatezip": true

the example above will take zip all the files listed in "filelist" array in a file name "zipfilename". It will also rename each of the files if specified.

Also, read this post: https://ccampora.blogspot.com/2021/12/creating-dmf-data-package-from-files.html