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Dynamics 365 Portals: Entity List of ‘My’ Records

Post Author: Joe D365 |

With Dynamics 365 for Customer Engagement (Online), Microsoft provides most customers with one free instance of the Dynamics Portal Add-On. One of the main content features of Dynamics Portals is the Entity List.

The Entity List is the equivalent of a View in Dynamics 365. These Entity Lists can be defined to show lists of records based on system views that are already defined in Dynamics 365, and they can have additional filters added over and above what is defined in the system view.

Use Case

When the Portals add-on is configured, you can select from several pre-defined web sites including a Partner Portal. This Partner Portal allows you to setup a website for your Partners to log in and enter Opportunities, create support cases, search knowledge, and other record types to be created or retrieved directly from your Dynamics 365 instance.

One use case for this filter condition feature can essentially give you the ability to create a My Opportunities view that will show Opportunity records assigned to the current user logged into the portal. Here are the steps to creating the My Open Opportunities Entity list for display in the portal.

1. Create a system view with the columns that you wish to surface on the portal. Set any basic filter criteria to start with (e.g. Status = Open).

2. Navigate to Portals > Entity Lists and click New to create a new entity list.

3. Set the Name, Entity Name, Website.

4. In the View iFrame, click + View.

5. Select the system view that you created in a previous step.

6. Save the record (Do not Save & Close just yet).

7. Set the other appropriate values for the entity list:

  • Page Size
  • Web Page for Details View
  • ID Query String Parameter Name
  • Enable Entity Permissions
  • Key
  • Etc.

8. Scroll the form and Find the Filter Conditions section.

9. Set the Portal User Attribute to an appropriate relationship.

  • For our example, we will set this to Partner Contact (msa_partneroppid) to filter based on the contact record associated to the Opportunity.

10. Scroll to the Options Tab and Grid Configuration iFrame. Here you can decide if you want to allow the user to create new records, edit existing records, etc.

11. Save & Close.

The main concept to take away from this scenario is the Filter Conditions where we tell the Entity List to filter the records based on the current user that is logged in to the portal. This concept can easily be adapted to other record types such as Leads, Cases, Quotes, etc. by creating or editing existing Entity List records and setting the Filter Conditions.

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By Joe D365
Joe D365 is a Microsoft Dynamics 365 superhero who runs on pure Dynamics adrenaline. As the face of PowerObjects, Joe D365’s mission is to reveal innovative ways to use Dynamics 365 and bring the application to more businesses and organizations around the world.

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