{"id":37111,"date":"2024-01-19T16:45:21","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T11:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/?p=37111"},"modified":"2024-01-18T16:59:21","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T11:29:21","slug":"link-activities-with-multiple-records-preview-in-dynamics-365","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/link-activities-with-multiple-records-preview-in-dynamics-365\/","title":{"rendered":"Link Activities with multiple records (Preview) in Dynamics 365"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this blog post, we will explore a new feature introduced by Microsoft, that enables the effortless linking of activities with multiple records.<\/p>\n<p>With the introduction of this feature, the <strong>Activity<\/strong> records can now be linked to additional records such as <strong>Accounts<\/strong>, <strong>Contacts<\/strong>, <strong>Leads<\/strong>, <strong>Opportunities<\/strong>, and <strong>Users<\/strong> using the new party list attribute.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Note<\/u><\/strong>: As this feature is currently in preview, it exclusively supports <strong>Email<\/strong> entity records at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>Now, let&#8217;s explore how to use this feature,<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Navigate to <a href=\"https:\/\/make.powerapps.com\">https:\/\/make.powerapps.com<\/a> and go to the <strong>Email<\/strong> entity where you will find the <strong>Related<\/strong> column present with <strong>PartyList<\/strong> datatype as shown below,<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Link-Activities-with-multiple-records-1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-37117 size-full\" style=\"border: 1px solid #000000; padding: 1px; margin: 1px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Link-Activities-with-multiple-records-1.png\" alt=\"Link Activities with multiple records\" width=\"1508\" height=\"571\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Link-Activities-with-multiple-records-1.png 1508w, https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Link-Activities-with-multiple-records-1-300x114.png 300w, https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Link-Activities-with-multiple-records-1-1024x388.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Link-Activities-with-multiple-records-1-768x291.png 768w, https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Link-Activities-with-multiple-records-1-660x250.png 660w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1508px) 100vw, 1508px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">2. Go to the <strong>Email<\/strong> entity main form and add the <strong>Related<\/strong> column on the main form as shown below,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Link-Activities-with-multiple-records-2.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-37116 size-full\" style=\"border: 1px solid #000000; padding: 1px; margin: 1px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Link-Activities-with-multiple-records-2.png\" alt=\"Link Activities with multiple records \" width=\"1578\" height=\"493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Link-Activities-with-multiple-records-2.png 1578w, https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Link-Activities-with-multiple-records-2-300x94.png 300w, https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Link-Activities-with-multiple-records-2-1024x320.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Link-Activities-with-multiple-records-2-768x240.png 768w, https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Link-Activities-with-multiple-records-2-1536x480.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Link-Activities-with-multiple-records-2-660x206.png 660w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1578px) 100vw, 1578px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">3. Now, you can associate one <strong>Email<\/strong> record with multiple records at the same time, below is the screen clip for reference,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Link-Activities-with-multiple-records-3.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-37115 size-full\" style=\"border: 1px solid #000000; padding: 1px; margin: 1px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Link-Activities-with-multiple-records-3.png\" alt=\"Link Activities with multiple records\" width=\"1157\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Link-Activities-with-multiple-records-3.png 1157w, https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Link-Activities-with-multiple-records-3-300x133.png 300w, https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Link-Activities-with-multiple-records-3-1024x455.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Link-Activities-with-multiple-records-3-768x341.png 768w, https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Link-Activities-with-multiple-records-3-660x293.png 660w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1157px) 100vw, 1157px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Email<\/strong> record will also appear on the <strong>Timeline<\/strong> of all the selected records in the <strong>Related<\/strong> column.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Conclusion<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Utilizing this functionality enables users to link a single activity with multiple records simultaneously, eliminating the need to generate duplicate activities for every individual record.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/product\/productivity-apps\/business-process-dynamics-365-crm-to-do-checklist-sequence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-36963 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Business-Process-Checklist-Playbook.gif\" alt=\"Business Process Checklist Playbook\" width=\"800\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this blog post, we will explore a new feature introduced by Microsoft, that enables the effortless linking of activities with multiple records. With the introduction of this feature, the Activity records can now be linked to additional records such as Accounts, Contacts, Leads, Opportunities, and Users using the new party list attribute. Note: As\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/link-activities-with-multiple-records-preview-in-dynamics-365\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"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":[16,38],"tags":[533],"class_list":["post-37111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dynamics-365","category-microsoft-powerapps","tag-dynamics-365"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37111","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}