In my second post in the series on how you can add an integration with SharePoint to the Employee Self-Service Portal in Dynamics 365 without using server-side code, I’ll describe how we go about getting the SharePoint folder location for the current Case on the Edit Case page.
In this series I’m going to step through how you can add an integration with SharePoint to the Employee Self-Service Portal in Dynamics 365 without using server-side code. While the recent news that the October ’18 release of the Portal capabilities for Dynamics 365 with include out-of-the-box SharePoint integration may make this series obsolete in a hurry, I’m sharing it as it might inspire other solutions that can leverage the same techniques.
Microsoft decided to make the October ’18 release notes available while I was on vacation (it’s like they didn’t even consider my schedule!), so I’m a bit late on this, but here are my thoughts on what to expect in the fall when it comes to the Portal capabilities for Dynamics 365.
One of the big things we’ve talked about during the transition from Adxstudio Portals v7 to the Portal Capabilities for Dynamics 365 v8 is losing the ability to include server-side code in your website project. There are ways around this limitation – typically we recommend using a Dynamics 365 Portals Companion App. However, there is another technique, which we’ve always considered a bit of a hack, but not only does it work, Microsoft is using the technique in their own Portals. So if they can do it, why not us?
Dates, times, time zones, daylight savings time, and anything related to those concepts is an area that has always been a huge pain in the you-know-where for developers. There are so many rules and variables that it’s hard to be confident that your solution is handling all cases perfectly. Thankfully frameworks like .NET remove a lot of the guesswork, but you still have to be careful. In this post, I’ll investigate how Dynamics 365 and Portals handle dates and times.
So 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.
In this post I go through some of our favorite platforms for building portals, and I’ll let you know what we love, and what we don’t, about each one of them.
