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Dynamics 365 Application Development

By : Deepesh Somani, Nishant Rana
Book Image

Dynamics 365 Application Development

By: Deepesh Somani, Nishant Rana

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM is the most trusted name in enterprise-level customer relationship management. The latest version of Dynamics CRM comes with the important addition of exciting features guaranteed to make your life easier. It comes straight off the shelf with a whole new frontier of updated business rules, process enhancements, SDK methods, and other enhancements. This book will introduce you to the components of the new designer tools, such as SiteMap, App Module, and Visual Designer for Business Processes. Going deeper, this book teaches you how to develop custom SaaS applications leveraging the features of PowerApps available in Dynamics 365. Further, you will learn how to automate business processes using Microsoft Flow, and then we explore Web API, the most important platform update in Dynamics 365 CRM. Here, you'll also learn how to implement Web API in custom applications. You will learn how to write an Azure-aware plugin to design and integrate cloud-aware solutions. The book concludes with configuring services using newly released features such as Editable grids, Data Export Service, LinkedIn Integration, Relationship Insights, and Live Assist
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Understanding the app properties and designer interface


Apps have some specific properties which we need to go through before configuring an app. The following properties need to be provided before configuring an app. The following table summarizes the properties:

S. No.

Property name

Property description

1.

Name

This property needs to be provided to give a Unique Name for the app.

2.

Unique Name

Unique Name is auto-populated based on the Name property. It contains a prefix which is picked from the publisher prefix. The only part of the Unique Name can be changed (not the prefix as it is picked from the publisher of the solution).

A Unique Name can only contain English characters or numbers.

3.

Description

This property contains a short description of what the app is designed to achieve.

Note: It is recommended you use this property to provide meaningful descriptions for the app, as it will be useful information for ongoing CRM customization and maintenance.

4.

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The default setting for this property...