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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

Managing data for PowerApps


Using data in PowerApps is not a great challenge with the help of connectors, but using data from the cloud may result in an input of massive amount of data coming into the app. This is not good for either the user or the system itself. It is very important to make an efficient and effective app to manage the data, because fetching data is like getting the useful information required for the app user. This is required to reduce memory, processing power, and for network bandwidth of PowerApps. It will also improve response time and performance of the PowerApps by getting useful data.

To encounter a problem with bulk data, delegation of data is used by PowerApps. A delegation of data only provides the data that is useful to the users for the user app. This sorting of data saves lots of network traffic. It means PowerApps will process data before it loads the device.

Delegation is nothing but applying a formula to data before sending it over the network. Delegation...