Book Image

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

Prerequisites and security roles required for creating a Business Process Flow


Before we start a discussion about the steps required to create a Business Process Flow in Dynamics 365, it is important to understand the prerequisite security privileges, which a user needs before being able to create and edit Business Process Flows. This is particularly important if you wish to give a user or end user the ability to design and use their own Business Process Flow. The following table summarizes the minimum privileges required to create, configure, and activate a Business Process Flow in Dynamics 365:

S. No.

Entity name

Read

Write

Create

1.

Process

Yes

Yes

Yes

2.

Solution

Yes

-

-

3.

Customization

Yes

Yes

-

 

Solution and customization edit privilege are required, as it is a best practice to create and edit processes from a specific solution.

A detailed look at the security roles areas via CRM screens is given here:

  1. Under the Customizatiotab in the Dynamics 365 security role, the Read, Write and Create privileges for...