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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

PowerApps designer


PowerApps designer is used to manage PowerApps. This designer contains the following components, which are being used to design PowerApps:

Screens: Screens are the containers for the different controls of PowerApps. The screen is nothing but the visual front end of an application designed for user interaction. In PowerApps, managing the screen is simple.

Following types of screens are available in PowerApps:

  • Blank
  • Scrollable screen
  • List screen
  • Form screen

Controls: To design the PowerApps, different UI elements are required. These UI elements are also known as controls.

The following list specifies controls for the PowerApps designer:

  1. Text control:
    • Label
    • Text input
    • HTML text
    • Pen input
  1. Controls:
    • Button
    • Drop-down
    • Date picker
    • List box
    • Checkbox
    • Radio
    • Toggle
    • Slider
    • Rating
    • Timer
  1. Gallery:
    • Vertical
    • Horizontal
    • Flexible height
    • Blank vertical
    • Blank horizontal
    • Blank flexible height
  1. Data table 
  2. Forms:
    • Edit
    • Display
    • Entity form
  1.  Media:
    • Image
    • Camera
    • Barcode
    • Video
    • Audio
    • Microphone
    • Add picture
  1. Charts:
    • Column chart
    • Line chart
    • Pie...