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Integration - Create a lead in CRM via a web service in 10 minutes

CRM (Microsoft Dynamics Online – not AX CRM) has an SDK which you could use to integrate to. It can been overwhelming sometimes. So, I decided to use Flow to do the communication for me (HTTP Request > Dynamics). Took me 10 minutes from start to finish.

I didn’t have to learn the CRM SDK or figure out how to do authentication etc. I wanted to send a simple json message like this.

{
     "Email": "munib@fakeemail.com",
     "FirstName": "Munib",
     "LastName": "Ahmed",
     "Topic": "Health"
}

Go to Flow and create a new HTTP request. Click on “Use sample payload to generate schema” and enter the above json message. It will generate a schema as per below screenshot. Take note of the HTTP POST URL that has been generated. We will use that later to send the message to.

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In the Actions select Dynamics > “Create a new record”. Select Leads as the entity name. Map the fields and you are done.

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Now we just need to send a message to Flow using the URL. It doesn’t matter what tool you use to send a message. Below I used AX2012 (just because I had this job from a previous blog post I did).

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Go to Flow Run history to see what has happened. Notice in the output – it looks like the message we sent.

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We see the same in the creation. The mapping has worked.

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Final result in CRM is the lead created. All my mapped fields look fine.

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A word of caution. This is not a production ready solution. As you should consider security and your end to end architecture.

I did this as a proof of concept and wanted to show the power of Flow. Allowing me to integrate to another system that I didn’t have much knowledge of.

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