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Any news about this feature? I see here https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/admin/use-outlook-category-track-appointments-emails#task that tasks captured in Outlook will not be synced to customer engagement apps.
Even if task is created in the customer engagement apps, Regarding does not appear in Outlook Task. Both ways should be possible.
I like to see the idea I posted growing into something more, such as a collaboration tool for interested parties (depending on the current record's context).
Imagine someone going to modify a record and the previous SystemCreatedBy and SystemModifiedBy are 2 different users to the current one, making up 3 users in total who have worked on that record that we know of already (without any change logs taken into account).
Now wouldn't a group chat box be great to have if the current user wants to check the accuracy of his new information on the record?
Of course I expressed my idea in a language that we can all understand (factbox being specific to BC) but it doesn't have to be a factbox.
In fact having a Chrome/Edge extension would resolve the issue with not being able to detect if a user closes the browser, because with that browser extension enabled you can control if the window is closed or the session is lost and you can pop that question up to make sure the user is aware their session will expire (similar to what Amazon Prime is doing to check if you're still watching), also on closing the browser - same thing popup with questions.
To be honest the more I think about it the more I see it as a non-structured approach to assist editing data in a data structured environment.
There there are two big issues in your idea:
- Execution Order: If you want to reapply the saved record, you have also to call the validates again in the order they were originally called. ( it's a big difference if you call "Unit Price"- OnValidate or "Line Amount"- Onvalidate first or last.). So the only way to get your idea run, is some type of change log that you write, and that you reapply field by field later.
- The reapply of the change log might not be possible if you try to reapply it later, because f.e. the quantity you entered in "Sales Line" isn't available anymore, or the Serial No. you wanted to use is taken by another order.