Overview of apps in Dynamics 365

Apps are a new feature introduced in Dynamics 365 to provide quick navigation for the users to quickly access the most relevant entities, and so on. Apps are convenient and each app has its own site map. The details of designing a site map in Dynamics 365 will be discussed in Chapter 1, Customize Application Navigation. Briefly, a site map is a component which stores navigation links and is internally stored in XML format in Dynamics 365. Apps can contain components such as:

• Entities
• Dashboards
• Forms
• Views
• Charts
• Business process flows