Creating the Vendor Management application

Now, we are going to create the Vendor Management application. Each application has its own site map and components. The site map is a component in CRM that stores navigation links and is internally stored in an XML format in Dynamics 365.

We can add various components to the application, as follows:

  • Entities
  • Dashboards
  • Forms
  • Views
  • Charts
  • Business process flows

In this case, we are only going to add two entities to the application (vendor and product), and add a dashboard, as well.

The user must have certain security privileges before he/she can have access to configuring applications. It is important to understand this, as it will become important if you wish to give a user the capability to design ...

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