Category Archives: Business Process Flows

Get Business Process Flow Stages in a defined sequence within Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM

Introduction Recently while working on one of our requirements, we came across a scenario where we needed to arrange the Business Process stages in the order in which it was mentioned on the entity record. So, we tried to get the stages from the processstage table, but the resultant stages on querying the processstage table… Read More »

New Release: Business Process Checklist app for streamlining business processes in Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM

Effective business process management results in increased user productivity by 30-50% and increased success rate of projects by 70%. Effective business process management is a backbone of any organization. A well-structured business process takes everything into consideration viz costs, productivity, the value generated for customers and stakeholders, and overall ROI. Once the sales manager/administrator creates… Read More »

Daily, Weekly, Monthly or Annually – Schedule and Automate Bills Generation in Dynamics 365 CRM/Power Apps with Recurring Billing Manager!

Do you find it hard to manage multiple billings in Dynamics 365 CRM? Do you find it tedious to keep track of overdue payments? Don’t look further! Recurring Billing Manager – our popular billing app for Dynamics 365 CRM/Power Apps is just what you need! With a new name, new look and a very user-friendly… Read More »

Power Automate Flows now available from within Business Process Flows

Business Process Flow helps business visualize their process flow on the Dynamics 365 CRM records and see the progress and the current status of the record along the process. Business processes often require automation of certain actions upon achieving certain stages of the process. With this in mind Microsoft included the ability to invoke. 1.… Read More »

Call a workflow on Stage Exit of a last stage in business process flow of Dynamics 365 CE

Introduction As Dynamics 365 CRM’s native feature, we can call on-demand workflows from inside a business process flow. We can configure this from the new business process flow designer, by dragging a workflow component to a process stage, or to the Global Workflows section. As you know, we have written a blog on global workflow… Read More »

Connector and Global Workflows in Dynamics 365 Business Process Flow

Introduction Business Process Flow (BPF), which was introduced in CRM 2013 is really useful for all the organizations to train their staff in an effective way. Like, everyone knows BPF is a guided process for a user to follow. Since, CRM 2013, BPF has undergone drastic changes iteration by iteration. Initially, BPF didn’t support SDK… Read More »

Trigger Workflow and Action from Business Process Flow Stage On Demand in Dynamics 365

Introduction As we know, the Business Process Flow feature plays very crucial role in Dynamics 365, which guides the users to execute their work sequentially with defined stages. With the release of Dynamics 365 9.x, Microsoft has added new feature .i.e. execute workflow/action from Business Process Flow stage as on demand. Means, when the user… Read More »

Business Process Flow Stage Name in Dynamics 365

Introduction In Dynamics 365 Microsoft included various updates and improvement to Business Process Flow (BPF). Previously when a BPF was started, all the information regarding the BPF was stored within the record itself. There were fields as ProcessId (ID of BPF), StageId (ID of the active BPF).  These fields are getting deprecated, so below is… Read More »

Make the Business Process Flow fields to be required conditionally

Introduction: Recently, we had a business requirement to make some fields, present in the Business process flow stage, to be required conditionally based on the value selected in one of the fields in the BPF stage. First, we tried to achieve this by writing a client side JavaScript code to make the Business Process fields… Read More »