Monthly Archives: February 2018

Dynamics: Drawing activity sequence diagram

  For the reasons not clear to myself, I was looking at the js-sequence-diagram library (https://bramp.github.io/js-sequence-diagrams/), and it occurred to me that I might probably use such a diagram to display the sequence of activities on the entity form. And indeed.. here is what I ended up with: If you wanted to try it yourself,… Read More »

Entity ownership type: Business Unit

  What the heck am I talking about? “Business Unit” ownership!? That’s not even a thing: That’s more or less what I replied in the community forums to somebody who was asking about “business unit” ownership. And yet, it does exist, even if it’s not something you can set up for your own custom entities:… Read More »

Invalid User Authorization error

Was trying to enable data encryption in Dynamics and the next thing I knew there was an error message: Invalid User Authorization The user authentication passed to the platform is not valid. It’s a rather vague message to say the least, so a quick google search revealed some links but no definitive answers. Lucky for… Read More »

Failed to Generate Excel: An error occurred

I was trying to export data to an excel spreadsheet earlier today and ran into something that I have not seen before: Failed to Generate Excel An error occurred when Dynamics 365 tried to generate the Excel file. If this problem persists, contact your system administrator. This was happening on a seemingly innocent view which… Read More »