{"id":11641,"date":"2018-05-04T18:32:40","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T13:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/?p=11641"},"modified":"2018-05-04T18:32:40","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T13:02:40","slug":"geo-code-dynamics-365-records-using-microsoft-flow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/geo-code-dynamics-365-records-using-microsoft-flow\/","title":{"rendered":"Geo-code Dynamics 365 Records Using Microsoft Flow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Introduction:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft Flow is a powerful business application platform that includes PowerApps, the Common Data Service, Dynamics 365, and Office 365. It allows you to create and automate workflows across multiple applications and services without developers help. Microsoft Flow connects to more than 100 external services like SharePoint, OneDrive, Dynamics 365, Customer APIs, etc. we are going to explore one of these.<\/p>\n<p>In this blog, we are going to use Microsoft Flow to connect with Bing Maps Services and utilize the address information to find geo-coordinates. It is possible to geocode out of box\u00a0as well as a custom entity with the steps below.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Let us see a step by step walkthrough for a\u00a0custom entity:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Build a new Flow and read\u00a0custom entity i.e new Admission record in Dynamics 365.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11642\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/ms-flow1.png\" alt=\"ms flow1\" width=\"608\" height=\"264\" \/><\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>Browse the Bing Maps connector in Next Step.<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11650\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/ms-flow2.png\" alt=\"ms flow2\" width=\"618\" height=\"253\" \/><\/li>\n<li>Bing Maps provides a lot of services as shown in the screenshot below.<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11643\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/ms-flow3.png\" alt=\"ms flow3\" width=\"583\" height=\"460\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li>Register with API key and you can easily get the key from Bing Maps portal.<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11645\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/ms-flow4.png\" alt=\"ms flow4\" width=\"615\" height=\"263\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"5\">\n<li>Provide the required information.<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11646\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/ms-flow5.png\" alt=\"ms flow5\" width=\"605\" height=\"272\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"6\">\n<li>Click on Next Step\u00a0\u2192 Add An Action\u00a0\u2192 Enter Update record in search action\u00a0\u2192 Select Dynamics 365\u00a0\u2192 Update a record<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11647\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/ms-flow6.png\" alt=\"ms flow6\" width=\"604\" height=\"370\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"7\">\n<li>Add another step to update field back to CRM using \u2018Dynamics 365\u2019 connector as shown in the below screenshot.<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11648\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/ms-flow7.png\" alt=\"ms flow7\" width=\"484\" height=\"486\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"8\">\n<li>Now, you can see Run button as seen below. Now you can geocode CRM records of the entity.<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11649\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/ms-flow8.png\" alt=\"ms flow8\" width=\"216\" height=\"179\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Conclusion:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Now it is possible to Geocode Dynamics 365 Records with Microsoft Flow using the simple steps described above.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/geocoding-millions-of-dynamics-crm-records-using-maplytics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11659\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Generate-Your-Own-New-Leads-Now-Within-Dynamics-365-CRM-with-Maplytics-3.png\" alt=\"Generate Your Own New Leads Now Within Dynamics 365 CRM with Maplytics (3)\" width=\"800\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction: Microsoft Flow is a powerful business application platform that includes PowerApps, the Common Data Service, Dynamics 365, and Office 365. It allows you to create and automate workflows across multiple applications and services without developers help. Microsoft Flow connects to more than 100 external services like SharePoint, OneDrive, Dynamics 365, Customer APIs, etc. we\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/geo-code-dynamics-365-records-using-microsoft-flow\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":11652,"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":[36],"tags":[209,561,654,1150,1152],"class_list":["post-11641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-microsoft-flow","tag-bing-maps-connector","tag-dynamics-365-microsoft-flow","tag-dynamics-crm-microsoft-flow","tag-microsoft-flow","tag-microsoft-flow-bing-maps-connector"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11641","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=11641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}