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Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015 Application Design

By : Mahender Pal
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Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015 Application Design

By: Mahender Pal

Overview of this book

<p>Businesses can have their developers build complete apps or plug-ins and interfaces to suit their business needs. With the application of MS CRM, administrators can alter the content, layout, and business logic for each business use case. Businesses can choose to run Dynamics CRM on their own internal server or to link to web-hosted installations. This book is an enhanced guide that covers all the new features released with Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015. Coming straight off the shelf with a whole new frontier of updated business rules, process enhancements, SDK methods, and other enhancements, this book is a complete guide for all your Dynamics CRM questions.</p> <p>Starting off, this book will introduce you to the deployment options such as online and on-premise, and the software and hardware requirements as CRM customization. It will also teach you how to develop a sample application.</p> <p>Going deeper, this book teaches you about the new enhancements in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015 such as business process, new client-side scripting, mobile application, and actions enhancements. You will quickly get up and running with plugin development and project tracking concepts with the help of sample applications.</p> <p>The book concludes with how Microsoft Dynamics CRM extends its mobile capabilities and bring more feature-rich experience to the app users.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015 Application Design
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating asynchronous workflows


Let's say we want to implement a simple book inventory update; when a book is issued, we need to decrease the quantity on hand field in the associated book record by 1 and when a book is returned we need to increase the quantity on hand by 1.

We can do this using a workflow, so perform the following steps to create one:

  1. Navigate to Components | Process | New.

  2. Enter the following properties and click on OK:

    Process name: Update Book Inventory

    Category: Workflow

    Entity: Book Issue/Return

    Keep New blank process option selected

    Keep Run this workflow in background option selected

  3. Select the Record is created and Record fields change options, click on the Select button, and select the him_status field from available fields.

  4. Click on the Add Step drop-down and select Check Condition, click on Click to configure for the hyperlink.

  5. Add a condition such as the following by selecting the corresponding option from the select drop-down and click on Save and Close.

  6. Click on...