From the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Blogs: Flow and Facebook; Item attributes; Simpler user permissions; Big item descriptions

A selection of the latest insight from the Microsoft Dynamics NAV blogs:

• How to Create Your First Flow for NAV
• Dynamics NAV 2017 - Item Attributes
• Overview of User Permission: Microsoft Dynamics NAV
• How to Work with Big Item Descriptions

How to Create Your First Flow for NAV

On the Totovic NAV Blog, Aleksandar Totovic explained how to use Microsoft Flow to create a small Flow to connect Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Financials and Facebook. Totovic stated he used Financials only because it was easier for his demo, but you can do the same thing with Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2017, for example.

Before starting with Flow, you have to publish the web service you want to use in Flow, he stated. To begin, you click on My Flows and then on "Create from blank' (for this demo). However, if you want to use some of the templates, you will select "Create from template," Totovic stated.

Then you have to find some of Dynamics triggers. If you want to create flow for NAV or Financials, you can use When a record is created or When a record is modified. In this example, I used When a record is created. And then you need to choose one of your connections to your solution or to create new one (be careful with username and password - Web Service Access Key).

You can read the next steps here.

Dynamics NAV 2017 - Item Attributes

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