Configure Common Data Service starter portal (Preview)

In this article, we will discuss about the configuration of Common Data Service Starter Portal inside Dynamics portal. Common Data Service Starter Portal was a feature mentioned in the April 2019 release notes.

Now we can configure our Dynamics portal to connect to the Common Data Service environment and allow your users to interact with it.

This feature brings in the ability to connect a portal to a Common Data Service environment that does not have any Dynamics 365 for Customer Engagement apps (Sales, Service, or Marketing) preinstalled.

A Common Data Service starter portal is provisioned in the same way as any other portal. The only difference is that we select a Dynamics 365 instance that uses Common Data Service. After selecting the instance, the only portal type we see is Common Data Service Starter Portal.

Steps for configure Common Data Service Starter Portal inside Dynamics Portal: -

1. At the time of Portal configuration, there would be an option of Common Data Service Starter Portal (Preview) inside Select Portal to be deployed.

2. Select it.

After the portal Configuration it will look like: -

Once the portal is provisioned, a website with the sample pages is available. We can then use them to quickly get started.
Now in portal click on Sample pages, there are few options of built-in page templates.
These options are as follows: -

• Blank page
• Blank page with title
• Landing page
• Page with child links
• Page with side navigation

The Common Data Service starter portal comes with the sample data for you to quickly get started.

 Note: - The Common Data Service starter portal cannot be used on a Dynamics 365 for Customer Engagement organization.

Source:- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/customer-engagement/portals/cds-portal

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