Understanding Publisher in Dynamics 365.

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Today we are going to learn about publisher in Dynamics 365.



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A publisher is a real world entity which publishes Solutions in Dynamics CRM. We will be exploring about Solutions in our upcoming blogs. Those entity can be a person, department or company.

When you create an organization in Dynamics 365 CRM, a default publisher is created for you, which can also be used as part of your solution. Each CRM solution requires a solution publisher which provides a common customization prefix and option value prefix.

Common customization prefix means, when you are creating any new Table(Entity), Columns(Attributes), Relationships etc., then all these custom customization is prefixed with some word like new_.

When you create a Table, Column or Relationship in any Solution that is linked to this publisher, the prefix that you define is added before the schema name that is used internally in the system for that component.

The most important use of publisher is to distinguish the customizers. Consider a scenario where your CRM is handled by two different solution providers named SP1 and SP2. So to identify each other's component, these both solution providers will create a publisher which will be further used for identifying components and publishing the customizations. To create a publisher follow below steps.

Navigate to https://make.powerapps.com and select your environment. Click on Setting gear icon and select Advance Settings. 




Click on Setting Drop down icon and select customization.




Now click on Publisher.




This will display all available publishers.




Click on New and configure the new publisher as shown below.




In our upcoming blog we will be using this publisher for creating and publishing solutions.

Hope it helps...



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