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Enhance BPF With Branching in Dynamics CRM

Introduction

To define and enforce consistent business processes, people using the system can focus on their work and not perform a set of manual steps. At times based on some conditions we must show or hide stages based on conditions. So here, in this post, we see in the same use case provide a discount based on the status of Vaccination to the selected contact.

Step 1

Login to the required environment and go to flows and select Business process flows as shown below figure.

Enhance BPF With Branching in Dynamics CRM Figure 1

Step 2

After Step 1, click on Vaccination flow and click on edit and go to components and select Condition Component and drag and drop it to Business Process Flow Designer and name it as Validate Vaccination as shown in the below figure.

Enhance BPF With Branching in Dynamics CRM Figure 2

Step 3

After Step 2, under Rules select Field as Vaccination Completed and operator as Equals and type as Value and select value as Yes and click on Apply as shown in the below figure.

Enhance BPF With Branching in Dynamics CRM Figure 3

Step 4

After Step3, under true part of Validate Condition keep the step Provide Discount as shown in the below figure.

Enhance BPF With Branching in Dynamics CRM Figure 4

Step 5

After Step 4, under false part of Validate Condition directly connect to the Comments Stage which is common for the user to provide comments as shown in the below figure.

Enhance BPF With Branching in Dynamics CRM Figure 5

Step 6

After Step 5, click on Update and Validate and Activate BPF as shown in the below figure.

Enhance BPF With Branching in Dynamics CRM Figure 6

Step 7

After Step 6, navigate to dynamics CRM instance and then open contact record and then select vaccination completed to yes and observe BPF Stage Discount showed as shown in the below figure.

Enhance BPF With Branching in Dynamics CRM Figure 7

Step 8

After Step 7, if user selects vaccination completed to No and observe BPF Stage Discount Stage will be hidden as shown in the below figure.

Enhance BPF With Branching in Dynamics CRM Figure 8

Note:

  1. Make sure every stage and data steps are discussed before implementation.
  2. Validate, Save and Activate BPF without fail.
  3. Properly arrange connectors so that respective stages flow is represented for the user if conditional branching is used.
  4. Microsoft Documentation found here
  5. BPF’s works only in Modern Driven Apps.

Conclusion

In this way, one can easily implement Conditional branching in Business Process Flow in Dynamics CRM.


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