The deprecation of Dialogs has been discussed WAAAY too many times, and I still feel there is a gap for simple dialogs that would do lots of magic. A while back Microsoft introduced Custom Pages as one option to solve this missing piece, but simplicity is just not there yet.
I have been reviewing lots of great material from fellow MVP’s to study up a bit on the topic
MCJ – Custom Page updating Model Driven app
Scott Durrow – Adding logic to the new button configurator
Lisa Crosbie – Creating custom page
But I can’t quite shake the feeling that it’s still pretty tech-intensive to be able to create a Custom Page and call in from Dynamics. You need to have a decent understanding of the following:
- Creating a ribbon button in the new app configuration (easy, but adding commands not so easy)
- Javascript to actually start the Custom Page (not for everyone)
- Canvas App configuration (I am not a front-end type of guy, and hate having to start with a blank slate every time).
- Power FX for the showing of a button + updating whatever you are doing in the canvas app back to the model-driven app.
All in all, I would say that this is probably what you can expect a Dynamics/Power Apps consultant to understand, but it is not given that everyone feels comfortable while configuring. To be honest, Ribbon Workbench isn’t easy without a few tutorials either, but one gets better over time. (did anyone ever get the invert of a true/false statement right the first time?😂).
What to do?
Let’s just get to the bottom of the real issue. How to solve the problem of the Custom Page with a button and at the same time created a great way for sales to have a lot of fun!😁
Over the next weeks, I will start to publish a series of Custom Page and Sales, to showcase what you can do to improve Sales morale and adoption
Every post will be shown on the new Sales Page that I have “Win Notification” so stay tuned!!
The full solution will be available for download in the end.
In one company we had integration (push to azure service bus + ESP8266 reading info from there) that was ringing a bell on a wall on every Won Opportunity.
This was fun!
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This is somehting I want to look closer into.. Might look for more API driven devices though 😉
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