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Hello.

I've created an Azure Function that I'm able to successfully call via webhooks from Dynamics 365. I registered the webhook on the Create entity by using the plug in registration tool.

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Do we have to register a webhook on an entity?

Can a webhook be triggered without an entity? eg: Can a webhook be triggered via a custom url?

Once our code is done executing and complete in our Azure function, is there a way to notify Dynamics ?

We are wanting to trigger an azure function that returns a guid back to Dynamics 365.

Thank you!

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Johao Larios 1,795 on at

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Hello there,

Please find answers to your questions below:

Do we have to register a webhook on an entity?

--->webhooks are registered against MEssages using Plugin Registration tool. The messages are operations that happen during the pipeline execution of actions on entities. So, yes. You have to register it on an entity.

Can a webhook be triggered without an entity? eg: Can a webhook be triggered via a custom url?

--->You will always need to triggered then by calling an event inside Dynamics CE. So, if you have a custom URL, you can build that custom url in a way that it performs maybe an update in an entity and register the webhook in the update message for that entity.

Once our code is done executing and complete in our Azure function, is there a way to notify Dynamics ?

---Yes, if you call the azure function from a plugin or from a workflow, as described in this article written by the community: www.inogic.com/.../

We are wanting to trigger an azure function that returns a guid back to Dynamics 365.

This is our documentation for webhooks: docs.microsoft.com/.../use-webhooks

More useful information for you:

docs.microsoft.com/.../write-custom-azure-aware-plugin

Please do let me know if you have any more questions or please mark this one as an answered.

regards,

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JFDDynamics 5 on at

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Hello Johao,

Thank you for the quick response.

We are able to see the webhook call our Azure function. But, can we get data returned from the Azure function in Dynamics? How can we actually see the response body and where is it stored?

We looked at the following article, but it doesn't seem to show where the data is in Dynamics.

www.inogic.com/.../

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Hello JFDDynamics,

I you see that article, in the next method:

private static async Task<string> Post2Azure(UriBuilder uriBuilder, ITracingService tracingService, IOrganizationService service)

They are calling an azure function from a workflow:

HttpResponseMessage response = client.PostAsync(uriBuilder.Uri, byteContent).Result;

if (response == null)

{

tracingService.Trace("no response received");

throw new InvalidOperationException("Failed to obtain the httpResponse");

}

result = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();

tracingService.Trace("response read: " + result);

Then, they take the information from a JSON that is coming from there and creating a contact in CRM with that information:

JObject ob = JObject.Parse(result);

tracingService.Trace("responseparsed to json: ");

//Create a CRM contact

Entity contact = new Entity("contact");

contact["firstname"] = ob["Fname"].ToString();

tracingService.Trace("firsname to json: " + ob["Fname"].ToString());

contact["lastname"] = ob["Lname"].ToString();

tracingService.Trace("firsname to json: " + ob["Lname"].ToString());

contact["emailaddress1"] = ob["Email"].ToString();

Guid id = service.Create(contact);

tracingService.Trace("contact created " + id.ToString());

Hope this helps to clarify this even more.

Let us know if you have more questions.

Regards.

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