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Hi everyone! I'm new to this MS CRM. I have a couple of doubts that I want to share with you people. What is the general need to use plugins in MS CRM? In MS CRM, everything getting automated(version to version). Then what is the need of developers is future then?

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ARIFNIIT 1,391 on at

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Microsoft CRM have lots of the out of the box feature. but every organization have different sales, Marketing and service process or we can say different requirement.

To achieve specific requirement Microsoft Dynamics CRM have customization feature. where you can customize system as per your requirement and system feasibility.

So you can customize/Extend MS CRM system on client side and server side. JS will be used to extend it on client side and Plugin/Custom workflow activity/Custom action will be used to extend CRM system on server side.

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gdas 50,091 Moderator on at

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Hi Sai,

Dynamics CRM plugins is nothing but to extend your business logic while any event occur on any record and into event execution pipeline . Yes I agree with you that we can automate using workflow , action ,,custom workflow but there is something which is very complex or you can say not supported by workflow , Action example calling external service , doing some complex calculation or business logic in the plugin event execution pipeline , thats why plugin came into picture .

I made a video for this , please take a look -

www.youtube.com/watch

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Can you explain the difference between client side and server side briefly?

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Mahendar Pal 45,095 on at

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At a high level simple answer is- if you can't implement your requirement using out of the box features then you need to look for plugin, so you are going to extend capability of Dynamics CRM with the help of the plugins.

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Mahendar Pal 45,095 on at

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Client side- When you want your login runs to on the browser for example- run some validation on field change, and what ever you need available at entity form, you will use client side code.

Server Side-When you need to perform some logic on the server for example when this current record saved in CRM db, initiate some action from Server, for example may you want to post your entity record to some other db.

Let's take a very common example, based on the customer lookup selection in contact entity you want to bring customer address and show it on contact form, if you want to make it more user friendly you need to write JS for this, so as soon as user will change lookup he can see data populated, but you can do the same thing in Plugin, which will only run when you will save your changes and you will get post back from server to see the address fields populated.

Hope it will help.

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How to learn plugins? Is there any material for beginners (other than CRM PowerObjects)?

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gdas 50,091 Moderator on at

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Hi Sai,

Please refer below -

docs.microsoft.com/.../plugin-development

docs.microsoft.com/.../write-plugin

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Mahendar Pal 45,095 on at

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If you want to learn from yourself, you can check for youtube there are many videos available for plugin development.

Aanother one is SDK: docs.microsoft.com/.../plugin-development

Otherwise look for training provider.

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What would be the scope of CRM in future?

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ARIFNIIT 1,391 on at

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Client side : code which will execute on browser. for example JavaScript

Server Side: code which will execute on server. for example C# code(Plugin, workflow and Action)

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