Integrate Dynamics 365 for Customer Engagement apps with Microsoft Teams
If you're familiar with Microsoft Teams, you know that it is a chat and collaboration platform – a place to manage all your conversations, files, and important tools in one team workspace. You can access SharePoint, Power BI, and now Dynamics 365 for Customer Engagement right from the Teams app. Teams comes with the Office 365 subscription and offers both a web and desktop version.
A Dynamics 365 page can be added as a tab on a Teams channel that you are working on to allow easy access to the customer information. The tab added on the Teams channel is a fully functional page, meaning you can edit any records or navigate to related records without leaving the app. You can also use the Dynamics 365 Bot for quick updates on records. In this article, I'll go into more depth about the integration process.
Before getting started, enable the Teams integration feature from Customer Engagement:
- Sign in as a System Administrator.
- Go to Settings > Administration > SystemSettings > Generaltab.
- Enable Microsoft Teams integration.
Let's get started:
1. Go to the Teams channel where you want to add a D365 page as a tab and add a tab by clicking on the + button.
2. Search for the Dynamics 365 app.
3. After clicking on Dynamics 365 app, you will be asked to select the Organization and the App module. Select the same from the dropdown accordingly and click on select.
4. Search for the entity you want to connect to this channel and click save.
5. Now that it's done, you can edit the record details or navigate to the related records in Dynamics 365 from the Teams app.
6. Once you complete the above steps, you will see a notification that the record is successfully connected (see above image). Any changes done here will be synchronized with the Customer Engagement apps.
7. Once the integration is done, Teams also provides the feature to associate files. Any related documents uploaded in the Files tab in Teams will also appear in the D365 Customer Engagement app under Documents for the record. Similarly, any documents added in D365 for Customer Engagement apps, will appear in the Files tab on Teams.
Below are images of the Microsoft Teams Files tab:
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