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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

Securing an app


In real-world scenarios, it is often a requirement to give specific app access to a certain set of users only. For this requirement, we can secure apps to be accessible via certain security roles only.

We now wish to edit the Lead Generation app security permissions so that they are only available to sales manager and salesperson security roles. We can do this by enabling app access for certain Security Roles only. Follow these steps to enable app access for certain security roles only:

  1. Navigate to Settings MyApps and select More options under the Lead Generation app:
  1. Select the Manage Roles option. This will launch the Manage Roles window on the right side of the screen, where various Security Roles can be selected. Select the appropriate roles and click Save:

Note: The system administrator and system customizer roles have full access on all apps by default. It is recommended you keep this setting as these security roles will need to maintain or customize apps in future.

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