From the Microsoft Dynamics 365/CRM Blogs: Custom pricing; Service account; Sales opportunities; External links

From this week's Microsoft Dynamics 365/CRM blogs:

• Automatically Populate Extended Amount Field When Using Custom Pricing (Dynamics CRM/365 For Enterprise)
• Using Office 365 Service Account for .Net MVC Portal Connected to Dynamics 365 CRM
• Options for Reviewing Sales Opportunities in Dynamics 365 (CRM)
• Hide External Links in Microsoft Dynamics CRM/365 Portal

Automatically Populate Extended Amount Field When Using Custom Pricing (Dynamics CRM/365 For Enterprise)

On the CRM Chap's blog, Joe Griffin wrote that usually when your business is thinking about adopting Dynamics CRM/Dynamics 365 for Enterprise (D365E), you can be reasonably sure that you can rapidly adapt the majority of what's already configured to suit your business needs.

But even it you want to "fine-tune" things a little more, there is a number of ways you can achieve your objectives - sometimes in very unique ways, he wrote:

I have previously looked at a good example of this on the blog - namely, how to override the systems built-in pricing engine in favor of your own - and, assuming you have a good understanding of C# and how to deploy plugins to the application, you can spin an important aspect of the systems functionality on its head to match how your business operates.

Being able to do that is a good thing, but sometimes some odd things might occur, according to Griffin.

You can read about an example here.

Using Office 365 Service Account for .Net MVC Portal Connected to Dynamics 365 CRM

On Mohamed Mostafa's Blog, Mostafa wrote that when ...