Author: Nishant Rana

App source is a platform where all the power platform apps and related cloud supported apps that are built on top of Microsoft can be publish. Mostly people use app source to show case their master piece of work in form of product.

To publish an app on app source there are few mandatory steps that should be complete.

Step#01: Managed Solution

Create a solution that includes all the components that needs to be pitch as part of your publish application. Export the solution with Managed properties.

Step#02: Create Package using Microsoft Dynamics Package Deployer.

Microsoft dynamics package deployer is part of Nuget package manager for VS 2015, 2012, 2013. In case you have any earlier version of VS then try to upgrade it as it supports .net framework 4.6.2.

Open visual studio as administrator and select new project as defined below;

File > New > Project

Templates > Visual…

One of the talking points during my conversations with customers (be it workshops or 1:1) is to have an ability to perform a business process periodically based on a trigger.

Out of the box D365 CE does not have any way of scheduling a recurring job/process that can execute so usually we start looking outside to avail options of a Azure Web job or a Console Application or something similar.

In this post, I will try to explain a near Out of the box way of simulating Scheduling processes within the realm of D365 CE itself which will only require configurations and no coding at all.

Examples of some of the common business processes that requires a scheduled background process to execute at a specific interval of time could be:

1. Sending birthday cards/greetings through D365 CE to your customers or contacts.
2. Setting up reminders X number of days in advance…