DMF
For files in standard data entity formats — vendors, customers, released products — there is no need to write a custom parser: Microsoft's Data Management Framework entities already implement the parsing and the business logic. In the External Integration module, DMF is simply one more way to process an incoming file: DEVIntegProcessDMF runs a DMF import project as the processing step of a normal inbound message.
What the wrapper adds on top of plain recurring DMF imports:
- the file is attached to an Incoming messages record, with the framework's status model and error log,
- multicompany execution — one message type can import into multiple companies,
- unified monitoring in the workspace next to all other integrations.
Sample scenario
A vendor import via a standard DMF data project, fed from files on an Azure File Share.