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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

Creating PowerApps using Common Data Connection


We have seen Common Data Connection-related things. To understand Common Data Connection, the following steps will help to create Common Data Connection:

  1. Go to the PowerApps website, and create a new connection. Select Common Data Service:
  1. Select the Create button on the Common Data Service dialog:
  1. Authenticate using your Office 365 credentials.
  2. Check Common Data Connection by navigating to PowerApps Navigation.
  3. Create a new app by clicking on the App section in Navigation. Create a new app, using the Common Data Service:
  1. Select the Account entity from the Choose an entity list, and click on Connect:
  1. Automatic PowerApps will be generated from the Account data:
  1. Click on the Preview button to run the app:
  1. Select the File option from the menu bar. Click on the Save as option, then specify location and name of an App: