Customising Dynamics 365 just got a lot easier
Dynamics 365 is beloved for its flexibility but customisation can take up a significant amount of time.
If you’re producing a lot of custom dialogs and wizards; the designing, coding and maintenance of your customisations can expend significant amounts of your time and budget.
That’s where Dialog Builder for Dynamics 365 can help.
Quickly write simple or complex dialogs and user-driven processes that integrate seamlessly with the Dynamics 365 user interface. Customise wizards with a huge variety of field types and callback functions, to have total control over the UI. With regular updates to Dialog Builder PCF control, you can be sure of your code’s integrity as new Dynamics versions are released.
The Dialog Builder for Dynamics 365 is billed monthly at $100 USD.
How does Dialog Builder work?
Dialog Builder is a PCF control that simplifies the creation of custom dialog pop-ups and user processes. There are endless possibilities with Dialog Builder — any kind of alert, process or input capture can be easily written and installed.
You can fully customise the appearance of your dialogs or let them use your system’s default styles to seamlessly integrate with the Dynamics 365 user experience.
Recreate and customise existing processes or produce entirely new input screens to capture input and display output back to the user.
Some example processes and dialogs you can use Dialog Builder for include:
Recreate the Close Opportunity screen with custom or disabled fields
Paginated wizards for step-by-step user processes
Filtered lookup/search input
Check out the video below to learn more:
Some of the key benefits of Dialog Builder are:
Achieve powerful customisations quickly: Create and customise dialogs to better fit individual needs and work processes in next to no time. Produce simple to complex processes with low development requirements.
Minimise custom code maintenance requirements: Every new version of Dynamics 365 comes with the risk of breaking bespoke customisations and the maintenance of this extensive code can be taxing and expensive. Your Dialog Builder subscription covers regular updates and support to ensure continuous uptime and minimal maintenance.
Save money on customisations: Bespoke customisations are expensive. Development is a long process of briefing, design, coding and iteration, plus the sole responsibility for ongoing maintenance. The resource required for frequent bespoke customisations and iterations can be huge but with a simplified and regularly updated tool like Dialog Builder, your developers can work smarter and faster, and ultimately save you money.
How Dialog Builder saves you money
We’ve seen first-hand how our Dialog Builder has saved our customers money. We were approached by a client with a unique problem to be solved with Dynamics 365 customisation and quoted two options: a bespoke customisation from scratch, or a custom dialog supported by our Dialog Builder add-on.
Without Dialog Builder, initial development would have taken as long as 5 days and a one-off cost of over $15,000. And don’t forget the hidden ongoing cost of maintenance and iteration.
With Dialog Builder, we were able to offer a 2-day turnaround at a one-off cost of roughly $6,000, plus the annual subscription fee of $1,200.
With Dialog Builder at their disposal, our client was able to save money on this initial project and continued to save money with future customisations that Dialog Builder also supports.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Dialog Builder is a powerful tool designed to streamline and simplify the process for developers to create new dialogs and wizards within Dynamics 365. This tool helps both in-house developers and Dynamics 365 vendors design custom processes to optimise the Dynamics 365 user experience.
In-house developers can save time and headaches with simplified coding, ongoing updates and reduce departmental costs.
Vendors can offer bespoke functionality to customers at a reduced and competitive cost and turnaround. -
Once installed, Dialog Builder provides a simple interface for inputting bespoke code for unique dialogs, wizards and processes. Dialog Builder offers simplicity and scalability letting you default to system styles or take total control over UI for each new dialog you create.
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Our Dialog Builder is quick to install and easy to get going. Depending on the complexity of your first dialog, it can take a day or two to get your new dialog up and running. Or, we can provide a library of example dialogs to get you started with some out-of-the-box functionality for even quicker results.
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Dialog Builder is designed to create or customise processes within Dynamics 365, it isn’t likely to cause a conflict except with some existing custom dialogs. If you’re worried, send an email to sales@magnetismsolutions.com and our Dynamics CRM experts can support you.
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Yes! We offer a free 30-day trial which we’ll help you set up. No credit card required and no obligations to continue if Dialog Builder isn’t right for you.
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Don’t worry — unwinding the installation is a simple process and before you know it everything will be back to how it was before. Our connectors shouldn’t get in the way of your data or your regular business activities.
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Dialog Builder for Dynamics 365 is billed monthly at $100 USD.
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