Category Archives: Business Process Flows

Associate multiple Business Process Flows for a record starting Dynamics 365/CRM

Introduction: Since Business Process Flows were introduced back in the days of CRM 2013, it only supported having one BPF associated with a record. The idea of Business Process Flow has been to enable and guide the users and teams on the directions or processes to follow when working. And it is not uncommon to… Read More: Associate multiple Business Process Flows for a record starting Dynamics… »

Stage-gating a Business Process Flow using two-options attribute type in Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement

Introduction: Business Process Flows (BPF) have been around for a while now. BPF aid user adoption by guiding the users through the process that need to be followed at each step of the sales stage. You can add various stages in the business process flow to indicate the stage at which this record take for… Read More: Stage-gating a Business Process Flow using two-options attribute type in… »

Modify Maximum Active Business Process Flows allowed per entity in Dynamics 365

Introduction: Business Process Flow was introduced around CRM 2013. Business Process Flows can be used a guide to assist the users with the business process to be followed. Take for example Lead; your business could define the various stages and actions that need to be performed before a lead is qualified. To ensure that these… Read More: Modify Maximum Active Business Process Flows allowed per entity in… »

Streamline your business process flow in Dynamics CRM 2016

Introduction: Since the release of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013, it had become essential to set business process flow for several professionals in the organization. The main aim was to guide people till the desired outcome through a set of well-defined steps. Irrespective of the entity, the CRM user experience has been streamlined for arriving at… Read More: Streamline your business process flow in Dynamics CRM 2016 »

Set Process through Workflow in Dynamics CRM 2016

Introduction: Since the release of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013, the new feature of building and deploying a standard business process flow has become important to organizations. The prime objective was to make CRM users capable to visualize more than one process. Regardless of the nature of the record, building of process flows help towards understanding… Read More: Set Process through Workflow in Dynamics CRM 2016 »

Applying Scripts on Business Process Flow controls in Dynamics CRM 2015

Introduction Anyone who would have tried using the api functions available to access the controls on the Business Process Flow to hide/lock in CRM 2013 would know that the function only worked if the control was on the current active stage on the form. Suppose you had 2 stages Develop and Propose and you had… Read More: Applying Scripts on Business Process Flow controls in Dynamics CRM… »

Scripting on Business Process Flow in CRM 2015- Part II

In our previous first part blog, we explained about BPF, it`s enhancements and few of the methods from the list of available methods. This second blog installation will explain the other available methods. Get the Active Path We can get the Active Path i.e., serves the exact seq. of stages that got the user to… Read More: Scripting on Business Process Flow in CRM 2015- Part II »

Scripting on Business Process Flow in CRM 2015- Part I

With the introduction of MS CRM 2015, came many new features. The one we are going to discuss here is advancement of Business Process Flow and especially the Scripting part, which came as boon. Before CRM 2015, the Business Process Flow exist, but no API availability made it impossible for the developers to interact with… Read More: Scripting on Business Process Flow in CRM 2015- Part I »

Enhanced Business Process Flow in CRM 2015 – VEGA release

As you may be aware, Microsoft has come up with Business process flow feature in CRM 2013 which provides assistance to users in CRM using stages to be followed in order to complete the whole process. Earlier Limitations: Strictly Linear Process: Business processes are designed to work only in linear manner, no branching is allowed.… Read More: Enhanced Business Process Flow in CRM 2015 – VEGA release »

Business Process Flow in CRM 2013

The December 2012 Update of Microsoft Dynamic CRM Online introduced Business Process Flow for the OOB Lead, Opportunity and Case entities. With CRM 2013 Microsoft has extended this feature further and allowed creating of business process flows for any entity including custom entities. Enabling Business Process Flow for an entity:    The first step to… Read More: Business Process Flow in CRM 2013 »