Dynamics 365 – Restricted Sales entities
Back in August/ September 2019 when Microsoft announced the license changes to Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform as part of the wave 2 2019 release Microsoft also announced changes to the list of restricted entities that require a full Dynamics 365 license.
Annoyingly 5 months later that list of restricted entities has still not been updated which is fine until a customer asks, “Can we use the product entity outside of Dynamics” and you disappear off to answer the question only to discover there is no answer.
So last week we decided to do an experiment and see if it is possible to identify the entities that exist in Dynamics 365 but do not exist in freshly created Common Data Service / Power Platform application environment.
This post is the first of a number of posts listing Dynamics 365 entities that don’t exist in non Dynamics 365 / standard Power Platform environments.
For convenience, we are going to display things on a Solution by Solution basis. So here are the Sales related Entities in the msdynce_Sales solution.
D365 Sales Entities not in available in PowerApps
| Entity Name | Entity System Name | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Competitor | Competitor | ? |
| Competitor Address | CompetitorAddress | Helper Entity |
| Competitor Product | CompetitorProduct | Helper Entity |
| Competitor Sales Literature | CompetitorSalesLiterature | Helper Entity |
| Contact Invoices | ContactInvoices | Hidden |
| Contact Orders | ContactOrders | Hidden |
| Contact Quotes | ContactQuotes | Hidden |
| Customer Opportunity Role | CustomerOpportunityRole | Helper Entity |
| Discount | Discount | ? |
| Discount Type | Discount Type | Helper Entity |
| Invoice | Invoice | Probably Restricted |
| Invoice Detail | InvoiceDetail | Probably Restricted |
| Lead | Lead | Probably Restricted |
| Lead Competitors | LeadCompetitors | Helper Entity |
| Lead Product | LeadProduct | Probably Restricted (join on two entities that are both probably restricted) |
| Opportunity | Opportunity | Probably Restricted |
| Opportunity Close | Opportunity Close | tied to opportunity |
| Opportunity Competitors | Opportunity Competitors | tied to opportunity entity |
| Opportunity Product | OpportunityProduct | Probably Restricted (there is lot of business logic behind here) |
| Order Close | OrderClose | tied to Sales Order entity |
| Product Price Level | ProductPriceLevel | Probably restricted (join on two entities that are both probably restricted) |
| Product Sales Literature | ProductSalesLiterature | ? |
| Quote | Quote | Probably restricted |
| Quote Close | QuoteClose | tied to Quote entity |
| Quote Detail | QuoteDetail | Probably restricted (there is lot of business logic behind here) |
| Sales Literature | SalesLiterature | ?? |
| Sales Literature Item | SalesLiteratureItem | ?? |
| Sales Order | SalesOrder | Probably Restricted |
| Sales Order Details | SalesOrderDetail | Probably Restricted (there is lot of business logic behind here) |
So that’s the Sales side of things – where there are a number of likely entities due to the business logic that occurs behind them.
Next I will move on to the product side of things before looking at Marketing, then customer service and finally some other interesting bits and pieces.
And yes there should be a sales pitch here but I will leave that until everything else is set up and ready to go.
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