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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

Connectors in PowerApps


PowerApps is capable of getting data from the cloud. To do so, first, the connectors should be created. Connectors specify a data source of PowerApps. Transferring data from the cloud to PowerApps is very simple and secure. There is no need to worry about any kind of encryption to make data secure.

The PowerApps connector supports many services, such as online or on-premises data. There are two types of connectors available in PowerApps:

  • Standard connectors: These are known as standard connectors because PowerApps provides support for many services such as Dynamics 365, SharePoint, and Excel. There are many connectors that support PowerApps.
  • Custom connectors: The custom connector is only created when there is any need to connect PowerApps with custom service; for example, custom service design by developers to fetch data from local data servers to PowerApps.

Some types of connectors work only with a specific data source; for example, a tabular data source, such as SharePoint...