Microsoft Dynamics: Managing Data

The Incoming Data tool makes it easy to select which fields from Microsoft Dynamics you want to have available in your Conga Collaborate documents. Use the Outgoing Data tool to push information from Conga Collaborate back into Microsoft Dynamics. You can set this to trigger according to a number of different events and to push data into any editable field within your Microsoft Dynamics account.

Incoming data

Use these steps to select all of the fields you wish to pull into Conga Collaborate documents:

From your Account Settings view, click Integrations
Click Microsoft Dynamics
Scroll down to Manage Data
Select the entity that you will use to launch Conga Collaborate documents from the Select Launching Entity menu
Select an object, and all possible fields show up
Check off the fields you would like to have available in your Conga Collaborate documents and save them before you move on to another object
- A list of Referenced Fields also pops up to the right and enables you to select fields from connected entities (for example, the user or account that owns the Opportunity).
- Be sure to click Save on every entity that you are selecting fields from before moving on to the next entity.
- After clicking Save you see a record of each field, organized by launching entity in the drop-down list.

Any variables you need in your Conga Collaborate documents display when you click your launching object in the variables list. If you have multiple objects in your list, only the variables of the object from which you created your Conga Collaborate document will be available.

If you have configured variables from multiple objects in your CRM settings, you may see more variables available in your template than are available in your created document.

Remember: Use only variables that are listed directly under your launching object in your Conga Collaborate CRM settings. For example, if you have configured variables to pull in with the Account and Opportunity as launching objects, then only the variables listed under your Opportunity object will be available in Documents created from your Opportunities.

Outgoing Data

Any information you’re sending needs a place to land in Microsoft Dynamics, so be sure the field you are trying to push data into exists on the entity you've selected.

To configure this tool, follow these steps:

From your Account Settings view, click Integrations
Click Microsoft Dynamics
Select the Conga Collaborate event you want to trigger updates of MS Dynamics entity records - you may select
- Publish
- Accept
- Decline
- New Version
- Ask a Question
- First View
- Formstack Form Submission
- Email Sent
Select Microsoft Dynamics and choose from the drop-down menu of every updatable Microsoft Dynamics entity in your account
Select the field you would like to send the information to
Select the Conga Collaborate data you want to map to the assigned field or specify the value to set in Microsoft Dynamics
Click Add to finish creating the event

Example Use Cases

Using the Outgoing Data Tool, you can push a PDF of a published proposal back as an attachment to the Opportunity. Once triggered, the PDF will show up on the Attachments related list on the Opportunity.

Follow these steps to push a proposal PDF to an Opportunity as an attachment:

Select the Event—most likely Proposal Publish, New Version of Proposal, or Accept Proposal
Choose the Attachment object and then the Body field
You see a Proposal: PDF option. Click Add

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