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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

Chapter 5. Creating Custom Business Apps

PowerApps is a service that allows you to create, manage, and use custom business apps across the platform. It connects to the existing system and data source of customer securely allows customizer to build apps without writing a code. It is possible to make those apps available for web and mobile users instantly by publishing them.

In this chapter, we will be covering the following points:

  • Overview of PowerApps
  • Privileges required to configure and create PowerApps
  • Connectors in PowerApps
  • Understanding the PowerApps design interface
  • Creating a PowerApps using data from Dynamics 365
  • Running PowerApps on mobile and tablet devices
  • Data connection service in PowerApps
  • Creating an app using a data connection service
  • Creating an entity in a data connection service
  • Customizing the PowerApps