Enabling/creating the entity as type “Elastic” within Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM


With the wave 1 rollout in Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM earlier this year, there has been an addition of a new type of entity in Dynamics CRM. It is called an “Elastic” entity. In this blog, we will walk through one of the capabilities of this newly launched feature, what makes it different from the regular types of entities, and how it could potentially benefit the overall productivity while working around the entities.

Go to Power Apps, pick the appropriate environment >> Tables >> New Table

wave 1 rollout

Fill up the mandatory details and select the entity type as “Elastic” under advanced options. Save to proceed.

wave 1 rollout

Upon saving, you will notice Two new fields come up as a part of the entity, these fields are not available for entities of other regular type

wave 1 rollout

In this illustration, we will use the “Time to Live” field by simply dragging and dropping it on the form. We will see the significance of this field in action soon, but for now, let’s put it on the form as the first step.

Drag and Drop - Attach2Dynamics

wave 1 rollout

Let’s…


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Inogic
Inogic is one of the leading Microsoft Dynamics 365 ISV since 10+ years. Its flagship product Maplytics™ is a market leading certified (CfMD) geo-analytical mapping app. Maplytics empowers Dynamics CRM users across industries with the power of geographical data visualization, route optimization and along the route search with turn-by-turn directions, appointment planner, locational search by radius and shapes with drill-down filters and color-coded pushpins, heat maps, shape layers & territory management.
 
Inogic is renowned for its high quality and low-cost offshore development services and productivity apps like InoLink: QuickBooks + Dynamics CRM, User Adoption Monitor, Attach2Dynamics, Alerts4Dynamics Click2Export, Click2Clone, Kanban Board, SharePoint Security Sync, Lead Automation & Distribution, Map My Relationships, Auto Tax Calculator, Subscription and Recurring Billing and Marketing4Dynamics.

Author: Inogic

Inogic is one of the leading Microsoft Dynamics 365 ISV since 10+ years. Its flagship product Maplytics™ is a market leading certified (CfMD) geo-analytical mapping app. Maplytics empowers Dynamics CRM users across industries with the power of geographical data visualization, route optimization and along the route search with turn-by-turn directions, appointment planner, locational search by radius and shapes with drill-down filters and color-coded pushpins, heat maps, shape layers & territory management.   Inogic is renowned for its high quality and low-cost offshore development services and productivity apps like InoLink: QuickBooks + Dynamics CRM, User Adoption Monitor, Attach2Dynamics, Alerts4Dynamics Click2Export, Click2Clone, Kanban Board, SharePoint Security Sync, Lead Automation & Distribution, Map My Relationships, Auto Tax Calculator, Subscription and Recurring Billing and Marketing4Dynamics.

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