Create a Better Authority Matrix and Approvals Process in MS Dynamics CRM

In 2018 I was suddenly pushed into the world of Microsoft Dynamics and in 2019 I joined a company as their developer. My new employers use the Opportunity entity for their pipeline and approvals process and had gone to an external company to provide an authority matrix solution. The solution is based around Javascript and, as a result, this third party company could charge a four figure fee whenever the authority matrix required updating.

If the following requirements sound familiar, you may want to read this article to find out how I overhauled said Authority Matrix solution. A colleague who joined just after I did said that the java-based, third-party, money-spinning method in use was the only way she'd seen it done before in other places.