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SWOT Analysis Control (drag and drop) for Dynamics 365 (9.x or 8.2)

Description

The SWOT Analysis Control for Dynamics 365 (8.2 or 9.x), can be added as a web resource to the account, opportunity or your custom entity form.

The SWOT Analysis helps the sales people / the organisation to identify the

  • Stenghts (internal)
  • Weaknesses (internal)
  • Opportunities (external)
  • Threads (external)

related to business competition to win an opportunity or customer.

For general usage see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis

This control is based on Angular 8, Webpack 4, Angular Material, Angular CDK and Rxjs and communicates with the Dynamics Web Api.

Realizes the Idea to include an custom Angular 7 Control in Dynamics 365 as Webresource and usage of the Dynamics 365 WebApi with Rxjs.

Proves that the production build gets super small (currently around ~500kb), even with Angular and Angular Material.

See also my Angular Elements version of this control for your custom web applications (https://github.com/ChrisMayor/AngularSwotMatrixControl)

Highlights

  • Angular 8.x
  • Angular Material
  • Angular CDK
  • Drag and Drop
  • Webpack 4.x
  • Usage of Rxjs for WebApi communication
  • Works in Classic UI and Unified Interface
  • Works in Dynamics 9.x
  • Scales to different screen resolutions
  • Non-Production build runs locally without Dynamics Integration - a console logger is injected as service instead
  • Only ~500kb production build size

Web demo

Demo

Note: Web demo is still on Angular 7 - Update to current version in work

Minimum requirements:

  • Tested on Dynamics 365 with Web Api Integration (online v9.0/v9.1) - not tested on 8.x but should also work there.
  • Works on classic ui and unified interface - suggested usage is on unified interface ui, caused by the limited space on the classic ui form and that you may have to care about the refresh of the web resource after creating the record (see hint below how to do this)

Releases for download as managed solution

V1.0 Solutions for Account and Opportunity Form (Dynamics 9.x) - Cloud

SWOT Analysis for account form (unmanaged)
SWOT Analysis for account form (managed)
SWOT Analysis for opportunity form (unmanaged)
SWOT Analysis for opportunity form (managed)

Installation guide

V1.0 Solution for Opportunity (Dynamics 9.0) - OnPremise

SWOT Analysis for opportunity form (managed) OnPrem

Note: Name of html webresource is mey_d365swotindex.html , please follow Installation guide how to add the web resource to the opportunity form.

Hints for custom entity use

You may use the unmanaged solution to add the SWOT Analysis to your custom entity form. In this case you need the following fields on the custom entity:

  • mey_swot_strengths (Multiline text 2000)
  • mey_swot_weaknesses (Multiline text 2000)
  • mey_swot_opportunities (Multiline text 2000)
  • mey_swot_threats (Multiline text 2000)

Note: Solutions are still on Angular 7 - Update to current version in work

Screenshots Unified Interface

Screenshots Classic Interface

Demo

Build / start locally

To build / start locally

  • Run: ng serve -o
  • Build: ng build --configuration=production

To do's

Some open points for future versions:

  • Unit testing
  • Configuration of the matrix with a separate configuration entity
  • Some UI enhancements / Design improvements
  • Icons are currently integrated via Googles CDN - maybe needs to be replaced if this is not suiteable for your implementation
  • Get the labels from Dynamics Metadata Service to allow translations
  • Wrap the Angular App in a Power App Custom Control (PCF) - Render the html and integrate the contents

Missing post create refresh of the web resource on the classic ui

  • On the classic UI you my have to refresh the web resource after create event:

Poll for the id / Refresh the Id in the webresource

var webResourceControl = Xrm.Page.getControl("WebResource_swotmatrix");
var src = webResourceControl.getSrc();
webResourceControl.setSrc(null);
// ... Manipulate the src to include the id ...
webResourceControl.setSrc(src);

In the unified interface Dynamics refreshes the web resource automatically after the record is created.

Disclaimer / Impressum

  • Published under the MIT license
  • Use at your own risk

Impressum / Imprint in German language to comply with German tele-media regulations.