Dynamics 365 - Get URL dynamically in flow

[Shidin]

Hi, 

I am using Flow with Dynamics 365 to build out a Quotes Approval Process.

In the 'Item Link' textbox on the Approvals step, I am concatenating the 'CRM tenant name' and the Quote GUID so that the user can get a link to the Quote record. (see screenshot below)

1. As you can see, I have hardcoded the Dynamics 365 URL and only the Quote GUID is dynamic.
   How can I get the Dynamics 365 URL in the flow? 
   Looking for something similar to what 'formContext.context.getClientUrl()' does in a web-resouce in Dynamics 365.
2. When is the recommended or the best way to 'deploy' this flow to my Production tenant?

Thanks in advance

[v-yuazh-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @Shidin，

For your first question:

I afraid that the only way should be hardcoded the Dynamics 365 URL and I couldn't find any to get the Dynamics 365 URL in flow.

For your second question:

Are you creating the flow in another tenant instead of the Production tenant?You could take a try to export the flow to see if it could copy the flow to Production tenant, if not, please manually create the flow on Production tenant.

Best regards,

Alice

[Shidin]

For 1, What I ended up doing was adding my Dynamics instance URL as a configuration record (custom entity) and then use the 'Dynamics 365 - Get records' action to query for that particular record.

[edxsandeep]

You can do following - 

e.g -My full link is as below, but my last underlined portion only will be dynamic.

https://orgf5f2b738.crm5.dynamics.com/main.aspx?appid=f9c14c95-affc-e811-a97d-000d3aa0f171&pagetype=...64cfa3e5-0c06-e911-a97f-000d3aa0f171

For the underlined dynamic part, Please add - Unique identifier for enetity instances from dynamic content. 

[klemetsrud]

If anyone is using the CDS Current Environment now instead of the dynamics 365.

The odata.id for a given record gives you the url, entity name, and ID, you would just need to parse it out.

Example: substring(outputs('Create_a_Copy_of_Updated_Contract_Inspection')?['body/@odata.id'], 0, indexOf(outputs('Create_a_Copy_of_Updated_Contract_Inspection')?['body/@odata.id'],'/api/'))

Replace the 'Create_a_Copy_of_Updated_Contract_Inspection'  with whatever the step name is that you want to get the URL from. That at least gives you a string that gives you the Dynamics 365 url. That being said, i'm still working on getting the entity name and ID out of there to construct a link to the actual record 😉

I know the CRM connector has a record url it returns, but CDS does not 😞