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Hello Community Experts,

I have a custom entity and i want the map to show up based on the data entered in address field

I tried below links but it shows error like Error loading form control

https://butenko.pro/2013/10/31/microsoft-crm-2013-adding-standard-bing-map-control-to-forms-of-custom-entities/

https://xrmadventuretime.com/tutorials/show-map-with-pin-in-dynamics/

How do i achieve this requirement?

Please guide

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Hi Sumaira,

Bing maps are restricted to a set of entities in CRM that doesn't include "custom entities". I would say that you have 2 options here, either build a web resource (the old-still-valid way) or using a PCF component (the new trendy way).

As an example of the web resource I found this one (it might be outdated):

blogs.bing.com/.../

For PCF I found a couple (already built):

pcf.gallery/categories

Check it out and please mark this as answered if it solved your question.

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Sumaira Noor 1,085 on at

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thanks for the response @JairoP

Can you please suggest me why I'm getting the Error loading form control error even after following the below links?

Its quite urgent requirement

butenko.pro/.../

xrmadventuretime.com/.../

Please Advise!

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Well since both are unsupported customizations there are many things that could go wrong, from a simple XML tag missing to a wrong Id (There are lots of Guids that you need to make sure are correct here). Determining the cause would require checking your code to debug the issue...

I strongly suggest using a real web resource or PCF component in this case.

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Sumaira Noor 1,085 on at

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Thanks again for the response

I would like to try but since i dont know much about web resource and about PCF i was trying to take he help of those links

If you could please guide me on below it will be very helpful

I'm trying using this link

xrmadventuretime.com/.../

But i don't know where to add the below code

<controlDescriptions> <controlDescription forControl="{deadbeef-1701-54d2-09be-35295876ca8a}"> <customControl id="{4273EDBD-AC1D-40d3-9FB2-095C621B552D}"> <parameters> <datafieldname>msdyn_name</datafieldname> </parameters> </customControl> <customControl formFactor="0" name="MscrmControls.Map.MapControl"> <parameters> <value>msdyn_name</value> <mapSourceSwitch isGroup="true" static="true">CoordinatesGroup</mapSourceSwitch> <latitude>msdyn_latitude</latitude> <longitude>msdyn_longitude</longitude> <addressEditableSwitch isGroup="true" static="true">isAddressEditableYesGroup</addressEditableSwitch> <outputLatitude>msdyn_latitude</outputLatitude> <outputLongitude>msdyn_longitude</outputLongitude> </parameters> </customControl> <customControl formFactor="1" name="MscrmControls.Map.MapControl"> <parameters> <value>msdyn_name</value> <mapSourceSwitch isGroup="true" static="true">CoordinatesGroup</mapSourceSwitch> <latitude>msdyn_latitude</latitude> <longitude>msdyn_longitude</longitude> <addressEditableSwitch isGroup="true" static="true">isAddressEditableYesGroup</addressEditableSwitch> <outputLatitude>msdyn_latitude</outputLatitude> <outputLongitude>msdyn_longitude</outputLongitude> </parameters> </customControl> <customControl formFactor="2" name="MscrmControls.Map.MapControl"> <parameters> <value>msdyn_name</value> <mapSourceSwitch isGroup="true" static="true">CoordinatesGroup</mapSourceSwitch> <latitude>msdyn_latitude</latitude> <longitude>msdyn_longitude</longitude> <addressEditableSwitch isGroup="true" static="true">isAddressEditableYesGroup</addressEditableSwitch> <outputLatitude>msdyn_latitude</outputLatitude> <outputLongitude>msdyn_longitude</outputLongitude> </parameters> </customControl> </controlDescription> </controlDescriptions> can you please guide? Best Regards!

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Hello, sumaira

If you facing problem in maping record in dynamicscrm . here I'm share references. i hope it will help you.

https://community.dynamics.com/365/sales/f/dynamics-365-for-sales-forum/262153/bing-map-customization-on-custom-entity-form

Dynamics map integration.

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Hey Sumaira,

Hope you got a solution, if not, do have a look for certified geo-analytical solutions for Dynamics 365 that integrate it with Bing/Azure Maps. Pick one that can seamlessly integrate with Power Apps and Dataverse. You can then have your custom entities and map them with accurate latitudes and longitudes easily. Give it a try!

Thanks,

Sam

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