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Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013 Software Development Kit Software Development Kit for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013
Software Development Kit for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013 Model your business data
Model your business data
Model your business data
Release history
What's new for developers
What's changing in the next release
Developer overview
Model your business data
Introduction to entities in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013
Administration and security entities
Activity feeds entities
Customer entities (account, contact)
Business management entities
Sales entities (lead, opportunity, competitor, quote, order, invoice)
Marketing entities (campaign, list)
Detect enhanced service capabilities available with product updates
Enhanced service entities
Service entities (contract, incident, knowledge base)
Activity entities
Social entities
Server-side synchronization entities
Goal management entities
Product catalog entities
Sales literature entities
Schedule and appointment entities
Template entities
Annotation (note) entity
UserQuery (saved view) entity
Developer tools
Write mobile and modern apps
Write applications and server extensions
Write client application extensions
Write plug-ins to extend business processes
Write workflows to automate business processes
Developers guide to reports for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013
Manage your data
Package and distribute extensions using solutions
Developers guide to customization for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013
Extend Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013 for Outlook
Integrate SharePoint with Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013
Advanced development
Sample code directory
Programming reference
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Model your business data

Dynamics CRM 2013
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Applies To: Dynamics CRM 2013

Microsoft Dynamics CRM provides a robust and customizable data model that uses entities to define the data tracked in the system. This section describes the out-of-the-box entities that correspond to the areas shown in the web application. These entities are defined by metadata. For more information about how to customize entities, see Extend the metadata model.

In This Section

Introduction to entities in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013

Administration and security entities

Activity feeds entities

Customer entities (account, contact)

Business management entities

Sales entities (lead, opportunity, competitor, quote, order, invoice)

Marketing entities (campaign, list)

Detect enhanced service capabilities available with product updates

Enhanced service entities

Service entities (contract, incident, knowledge base)

Activity entities

Server-side synchronization entities

Goal management entities

Product catalog entities

Sales literature entities

Schedule and appointment entities

Social entities

Template entities

Annotation (note) entity

UserQuery (saved view) entity

Define custom state model transitions

See Also

Software Development Kit for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013
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