create-entities-forms.md

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Step 1: Create required entities and forms for a custom channel in outbound marketing	Create required custom entities, forms, and dashboards to store and display information about your custom channel in outbound marketing.	04/01/2018	how-to	alfergus	alfergus	developer

Step 1: Create required entities and forms for a custom channel in outbound marketing

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Important

This article only applies to outbound marketing.

You might want to create custom entities and forms to store and display information about your custom channel. You might also want to build a configuration page to help users connect to an external service that your custom channel interacts with. Finally, you could build some dashboards to display some analytics information.

More information:

• Create or edit entities (record types)
• Create and design forms
• Create or edit dashboards

Note

You can view all the entities and their properties, attributes, and relationships by using the Entity Metadata Browser tool. More information: Dynamics 365 Customer Insights - Journeys entity reference

[!div class="nextstepaction"] Step 2: Configure the tile for custom channel

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