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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

Understanding activity feeds


Microsoft Dynamics CRM has a very cool activity feed feature that was introduced in CRM 2011. This feature is similar to getting updates in social media tools such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Yammer. We can also follow records and like/unlike posts as we do in social media. In our project tracking application we are going to use this feature so that the entire internal project team members can be up-to-date about the project status.

Note

You can refer to https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn659847.aspx for details on social media integration

Most business entities are enabled for activity feeds; we can see activity feeds on What's New dashboards and in the Social Pane in the respective entity. For example, in the following screen we can see posts related to account and related entity updates:

Note

POSTS can be selected as the default tab from the Social Page property by selecting Default Tab as Post under Display tab.

Activity feeds are available in entity...