Month: March 2018

Virtual Entities and Dynamics 365 Portals – Part 3 – Finally, the Part About Portals
March 26, 2018 3 Min.To ReadSo far in this series I’ve provided an intro on virtual entities and a deeper dive into virtual entities and relationships. In this post, I’m finally going to talk about how they work with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Portals.

Virtual Entities and Dynamics 365 Portals – Part 2 – Relationships
March 19, 2018 2 Min.To ReadIn my first post in this series I discussed how virtual entities and the link-entity node in FetchXML don’t mix well. In this post I’m diving a little bit more into virtual entities and how they can be related with other virtual entities, as well as non-virtual entities.

Virtual Entities and Dynamics 365 Portals – Part 1
March 13, 2018 3 Min.To ReadOne of the great new features available in Dynamics 365 v9 is Virtual Entities, which allow you to represent data from external system as entities without copying or synchronizing data, and often times without any custom code. In this series of posts, I’ll dive into this new feature, with a focus on what it means for Dynamics 365 Portals, and how we can leverage them to create no-code integrations between your Dynamics 365 Portal and other systems.
Diving into new Microsoft Dynamics 365 Portal capabilities and official guidance for upgrades from Adxstudio Portals
March 5, 2018 < 1 Min.To ReadMy latest article for MSDyanmicsWorld.com was released last week. It talks about the latest release of Dynamics 365 Portals, as well as the release of documentation for the migration from Adxstudio Portals v7 to the Microsoft-hosted v8.
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