Dynamics 365 Hybrid Interface

Microsoft's Power platform is the direction to be looking at if you are involved with Dynamics 365 implementations in any sense. Built on the Common Data Model (CDM), Model Driven Apps - including yes, Dynamics 365 moving forward with version 9 - will be using the Unified Common Interface or UCI for short.

Many Articles have been written about the Unified Common Interface, including it's ease of use and slick user experience. Much fuss has also of course been made about it's limitations - which are mostly temporary. These limitations include but are not limited to:

• Advanced Find
• Bulk Edit
• Merge Records
• Record Sharing

There are various tricks that can be used to access the old interface, and these are well documented (one less documented way is to simply add "?forceClassic=1" to the end of the URL in your browser). However, if you like the new interface and wish to fully adopt it, instead of using the old interface for these functionalities a hybrid mode is possible which enables the aforementioned features in the new interface to a degree.

These features are enabled through a setting in System Settings (which you ironically need to access the old interface to get to).

• Go to Settings > Administration > System Settings
• Select the "General" tab
• scroll way down...to the bottom...
• Set "Enable embedding of certain legacy dialogs in Unified Interface browser client" to "Yes"

After enabling, the hybrid experience will enable a bunch of options that utilize the old interface (and cause the old interface to pop up in a rather glaring fashion) in the Unified Interface command bar.

Pretty nice. Enjoy!

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