Adjusting the Native Dynamics SharePoint Integration

Do you store documents in SharePoint, but don’t know how to integrate it with Dynamics 365? Dynamics 365 offers a native SharePoint integration that is quick and easy to set up! Unfortunately, for organizations that have a custom SharePoint structure already in place, you may run into some road blocks. But don’t worry, you can still make it happen!

Using the Default SharePoint integration

Most notably, the native integration with Dynamics 365 assumes that you do not already store your documentation in SharePoint and that you are using the default folder structure. For example, once the native integration is configured and you navigate to an Account within Dynamics 365, you can select Documents. From here, you can create a new Document and it will automatically create a new location in SharePoint for you within Account –> Account Name_appended with a unique identifier:

Customizing the SharePoint integration

Now, let’s take the scenario where you already have a unique SharePoint structure in place where you are storing your documentation. For example, let’s say that you have a SharePoint folder called Clients where it contains subfolders of your Accounts with unique identifiers created by your team or another 3^rd party integration:

Can we still use some of the native SharePoint integration features in Dynamics 365? Of course! It just requires a couple of steps:

• First, we must replicate our structure within the Dynamics 365 SharePoint Document Location settings by specifying our unique Relative URL:

• Secondly, we can create a custom workflow that will do the following: Automatically map each Dynamics 365 Accounts Document Location to the existing Document Location we have stored in SharePoint. Note that this may require some additional configuration for your admins, such as ensuring the Account identifier used in SharePoint is added to your existing Accounts in Dynamics 365. It may help to configure a one-time bulk data migration to make this happen.

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