How to add multiple views of same entity as a left navigation menu in D365 CRM sitemap ?
Published Thursday, February 3, 2022
Sometimes we may have to add the different views of same entity as left navigation item in sitemap, and similar question was asked in this Stack overflow post. Lets take an example of Employee entity, then we have a filter to identify them as Consultant vs Fulltime, and in that case though we can have two views using the filters, users would like to see two left menu instead of switching the views in same gridview.
This is achievable and infact MS documentation covered this scenario especially for addressing the view using direct url. We just have to add the url similar to the below one in sitemap area.
If you have to refer - see how to add an area in existing Sitemap - MS documentation
All we need is the UCI app id, entity name, and the GUID of the view. This way we can achieve it easily and efficiently.
Url="/main.aspx?appid=e2bc1066-488f-eb11-b1ac-000d3a56ead9&pagetype=entitylist&etn=account&viewid=%7b<GUID value of view id>%7d"
