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Microsoft Dynamics 365 Extensions Cookbook

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Extensions Cookbook

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Microsoft Dynamics 365 Extensions Cookbook

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Extensions Cookbook

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Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics 365 is a powerful tool. It has many unique features that empower organisations to bridge common business challenges and technology pitfalls that would usually hinder the adoption of a CRM solution. This book sets out to enable you to harness the power of Dynamics 365 and cater to your unique circumstances. We start this book with a no-code configuration chapter and explain the schema, fields, and forms modeling techniques. We then move on to server-side and client-side custom code extensions. Next, you will see how best to integrate Dynamics 365 in a DevOps pipeline to package and deploy your extensions to the various SDLC environments. This book also covers modern libraries and integration patterns that can be used with Dynamics 365 (Angular, 3 tiers, and many others). Finally, we end by highlighting some of the powerful extensions available. Throughout we explain a range of design patterns and techniques that can be used to enhance your code quality; the aim is that you will learn to write enterprise-scale quality code.
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Creating your first custom workflow activity


A custom workflow activity allows you to add complex processing steps to your configurable workflows. Workflows are ideal for long-running processes as they do not face the two-minute timeout limitation that plugins have. Workflows can be run on demand as well as after triggering an event. Workflows can be configured by power users using a point and click user interface. Once custom activities are defined they can also be used as a point and click configuration without requiring additional .NET coding.

Creating a customer workflow activity is very similar to plugins. In this recipe, we will create a custom workflow activity that executes the exact same functionality as the plugin described in the previous section. In fact, rather than writing the workflow from scratch, we will turn the plugin into a workflow.

One of the great features of a custom workflow activity is that it can take input parameters and generate output parameters; a great feature...

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