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Implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement

By : Mahender Pal
Book Image

Implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement

By: Mahender Pal

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Customer Engagement (CE) is one of the leading customer relationship management (CRM) solutions that help companies to effectively communicate with their customers and allows them to transform their marketing strategies. Complete with detailed explanations of the essential concepts and practical examples, this book will guide you through the entire life cycle of implementing Dynamics 365 CE for your organization or clients, and will help you avoid common pitfalls while increasing efficiency at every stage of the project. Starting with the foundational concepts, the book will gradually introduce you to Microsoft Dynamics 365 features, plans, and products. You’ll learn various implementation strategies and requirement gathering techniques, and then design the application architecture by converting your requirements into technical and functional designs. As you advance, you’ll learn how to configure your CRM system to meet your organizational needs, customize Dynamics 365 CE, and extend its capabilities by writing client-side and server-side code. Finally, you’ll integrate Dynamics 365 CE with other applications and explore its business intelligence capabilities. By the end of this Microsoft Dynamics 365 book, you’ll have gained an in-depth understanding of all the key components necessary for successful Dynamics 365 CE implementation.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Implementing client-side logic

Client-side logic executes on the client machine; for example, data validation that's been implemented using client-side code runs in the browser. Dynamics 365 CE allows us to use client-side language tools such as JavaScript's jQuery to implement client-side logic. We can use client-side code on entity forms to implement data validation or to display data from other entities. To implement client-side logic for entities, first, we need to understand the client-side API object model. We can do so using the following diagram:

As shown in the preceding diagram, we have four main contexts that come under the client API object model root.

executionContext

The execution context is used to...