{No Code Approach} Generic framework to delete all child records when a parent record is deleted in Dynamics 365 using Microsoft Flows

Here comes another requirement and here comes Microsoft flows again to bail me out. So let’s see what the requirement was and let’s see how can we implement Microsoft flows to achieve these easily which otherwise would have required extensive coding to achieve.

So it goes like this. Basically, there are lot of custom entities in the environment and there are many parent-child relationships in between those entities and they are referential in nature. Ideally parental would have suited for some, however due to the number of parental relationship limitation in Dynamics, they would set it up as referential.

Now whenever a parent record is deleted, the associated child records would be deleted as well. Since this is referential relationship, whenever we delete a parent record, the child records are left orphaned in the system.

Microsoft flows offers you an easy way to delete records in bulk. You could easily…