{"id":11416,"date":"2018-03-30T18:15:41","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T12:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/?p=11416"},"modified":"2018-03-30T18:15:41","modified_gmt":"2018-03-30T12:45:41","slug":"enable-editing-of-fields-for-mobile-offline-usage-in-dynamics-365","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/enable-editing-of-fields-for-mobile-offline-usage-in-dynamics-365\/","title":{"rendered":"Enable Editing of Fields for Mobile Offline Usage in Dynamics 365"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Introduction:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If user access Dynamics 365 through a mobile app and it is in offline mode then the user gets an error message and unable to edit records as fields are locked in offline mode.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-11418\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Enable-Editing-of-Fields-for-Mobile-Offline-Usage-in-Dynamics-365.png\" alt=\"Enable Editing of Fields for Mobile Offline Usage in Dynamics 365\" width=\"824\" height=\"699\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In this blog, we will walk you through the steps to enable the editing of entity fields in offline mode.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Walkthrough:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">How to enable the entity fields in offline mode?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">First, the admin needs to create \u201c<strong>Mobile Offline Profile<\/strong>\u201d record in Dynamics CRM using web client and this can be done only in a production environment. Below are the steps to create the record in CRM.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Navigate to <strong>Setting \u2192\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Mobile Offline<\/strong>, as shown in below screenshot:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-11419\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Enable-Editing-of-Fields-for-Mobile-Offline-Usage-in-Dynamics-365-1.png\" alt=\"Enable Editing of Fields for Mobile Offline Usage in Dynamics 365\" width=\"824\" height=\"466\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Select <strong>Mobile Offline Profile <\/strong>as shown in below screenshot:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-11420\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Enable-Editing-of-Fields-for-Mobile-Offline-Usage-in-Dynamics-365-2.png\" alt=\"Enable Editing of Fields for Mobile Offline Usage in Dynamics 365\" width=\"822\" height=\"316\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Now click on a <strong>new<\/strong> button and create a record as shown in below screenshot:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-11421\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Enable-Editing-of-Fields-for-Mobile-Offline-Usage-in-Dynamics-365-3.png\" alt=\"Enable Editing of Fields for Mobile Offline Usage in Dynamics 365\" width=\"816\" height=\"231\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Now provide name and description to the records and save the record as you can see in the below screenshot:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-11422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Enable-Editing-of-Fields-for-Mobile-Offline-Usage-in-Dynamics-365-4.png\" alt=\"Enable Editing of Fields for Mobile Offline Usage in Dynamics 365\" width=\"826\" height=\"229\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Now after saving record user need to add \u201c<strong>Mobile Offline Profile Item Details\u201d<\/strong> record by clicking \u201c<strong>+<\/strong>\u201d icon on the sub grid and the pop window will appear to create a \u201c<strong>Mobile Offline Profile Item<\/strong>\u201d. Where user needs to provide Name, Entity and Data Download Filter and save the record. Here the user has to create all entity that user wants to make available for offline in this profile, as shown in below screenshot:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-11427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Enable-Editing-of-Fields-for-Mobile-Offline-Usage-in-Dynamics-365-51.png\" alt=\"Enable Editing of Fields for Mobile Offline Usage in Dynamics 365\" width=\"824\" height=\"303\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Now the user has to add new users to this \u201c<strong>Mobile Offline Profile<\/strong>\u201d record by clicking on \u201c<strong>+<\/strong>\u201d icon on the user sub grid. Users who are a part of this profile will only be able to perform the edit on offline mode as shown in below screenshot:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-11428\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Enable-Editing-of-Fields-for-Mobile-Offline-Usage-in-Dynamics-365-61.png\" alt=\"Enable Editing of Fields for Mobile Offline Usage in Dynamics 365\" width=\"821\" height=\"212\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>After adding the entities and users to the record \u201c<strong>Mobile Offline Profile<\/strong>\u201d user has to \u201c<strong>Publish\u201d <\/strong>this record, as shown in below screenshot:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-11429\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Enable-Editing-of-Fields-for-Mobile-Offline-Usage-in-Dynamics-365-71.png\" alt=\"Enable Editing of Fields for Mobile Offline Usage in Dynamics 365\" width=\"820\" height=\"212\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After publishing the above record user can log in to the CRM mobile app and try to open or create the records in offline mode this time user will not get any error and able to edit the record as shown in below screenshot.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-11430\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Enable-Editing-of-Fields-for-Mobile-Offline-Usage-in-Dynamics-365-81.png\" alt=\"Enable Editing of Fields for Mobile Offline Usage in Dynamics 365\" width=\"822\" height=\"667\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Conclusion: <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Using the steps above, user can edit records for mobile offline usage in Dynamics 365.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/product\/productivity-pack\/click-2-export-microsoft-dynamics-crm-reports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-10864\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Click2Export-banner.png\" alt=\"Export Dynamics CRM Reports\" width=\"824\" height=\"206\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction: If user access Dynamics 365 through a mobile app and it is in offline mode then the user gets an error message and unable to edit records as fields are locked in offline mode. In this blog, we will walk you through the steps to enable the editing of entity fields in offline mode.\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/enable-editing-of-fields-for-mobile-offline-usage-in-dynamics-365\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":11417,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,18],"tags":[564,810,811],"class_list":["post-11416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dynamics-365","category-dynamics-365-v9-2","tag-dynamics-365-mobile","tag-fields-dynamics-365","tag-fields-dynamics-365-mobile"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}