Call Azure Function from Dynamics 365 via Power Automate - Part 5.2

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Power Automate

Power Automate, earlier known as Microsoft Flow has multiple connectors that perform some Actions on some Events. The combination of connectors used to create Automated Workflows.

Connector is the tool to connect two external Applications together.

Example- When  creating any record in MS Dynamics 365, insert same record into SQL Database.

MS Dynamics 365 and SQL Database are two different Applications.

Event can be Create of Record, Update of Record, Delete of Record and etc.

Action can be Create of Record, Retrieve of Record and etc.

Scenario-

A requirement states that we need to call an external API that return some response.

This API will be triggered on create of a record in Dynamics 365 and returned response will be updated back to that particular record.

 

Solution-

We can make External Http Request using Power Automate Connectors.

Step 1 – Go the https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/ , sign-in and select Environment.

Step 2 – Go to the Solutions, Open the solution and create a new Flow.

After clicking solutions, we will find the same solutions list that we had made in our Dynamics 365 environment. We need to open any solution and create a flow under that solution just like any other component i.e. Entity, Fields, Web resources etc.

Step 3 – Search for Common Data Service Connector.

Note: Do not use Dynamics 365 connectors as they are deprecated now.

Step 4 – Select Trigger condition and Entity name and then click on +New step.

Step 5 – Search for HTTP.

Http is used to call API Endpoint by sending Request.

Step 6 – Follow as per below.

Step 7 – Click on +New Step to add another connector and search for Initialize.

Initialize is the connector used to contain the Response from HTTP connector (which sends HTTP Request and receive Response back).

Step 8 – Follow as per below.

This variable containing Response will be used to update the Dynamics 365 record of Test Entity.

Step 9 - Click on +New Step to add another connector and search for Common Data Service.

Step 10 – Follow as per below and Click Show advanced options.

The Unique identifier is like GUID.

Example -

Step 11 – Follow as per below and Save the flow.

After saving the flow, it will look like-

Step 12 – Now go to the Test Entity and create a New Record.

Step 13 – Save the form and reload it.

Hurrraayyyyy! We did it :)

We ran our flow successfully. To see the flow run, go the solution where we had made a Flow  and open it.

We will find the history of Flow runs.

After opening the above flow run history, we will find a successful execution of each connector.

Let's jump to Part 5.3 - Call Azure Function from Dynamics 365 via Webhook 

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