Dynamics 365 Environmental Variable

  

Dynamics 365 Environmental Variable

This is one of the exiting features that I came across, it can simplify designs and architectures in Dynamics 365 CE.

I am sure most of you have created custom entities to hold your configuration key values. and wished there was a better way to handle environmental configurations.

Now we can take advantage of Environmental Variables to accomplish this:

1. Environmental variables can be moved through solution

2. They can be used in your Power Automate Flows

3. In Plugins or JavaScript

I will leave it to your imagination where you can use Environmental Variables based on  your Use Cases.

To simplify things I will show you how to create Environmental Variables and the various Data Type Options available.

Open an existing or a new solution in https://make.powerapps.com/

You have the following Data Types available for you:

1. Decimal number

2. {}JSON

3. Text

4. Yes/No

5. Data Source

 In upcoming blogs I will try to give you some examples on how you can consume these environmental variables from Power Automate Flow to Plugins and JavaScript

Happy Codding :)