Monthly Archives: October 2017

Web API: Unmapped Request Found

I was trying to use Web API to associate a contact to an account (that’s a new N:N relationship), and ran into the error below: Unmapped Request Found Turned out, it was just a matter of having missed “/$ref” in the url I was using for the POST request: [ORG_URL]/api/data/v8.2/accounts(36859222-06AE-E711-A94C-000D3AF3E34A)/new_account_contact/$ref As per MSDN, here is how that request should… Read More »

Dynamics 365 (V9): Multi Select Option Set

There are a few things we can do with the old good option sets.. Can we do all of that with Multi Select option sets, though? Let’s see.. Although, let’s actually define a multi select option set first – here it goes: From there, here is what I wanted to try: Create a business rule… Read More »

Flows and Workflows in Dynamics V9

Flows are now integrated with Dynamics, so that’s something to play with/look at.. But what I am wondering about is this: there are Flows and Workflows. Flows are available in both Interactive and Web user experiences, but Workflows are available in the Web user experience only. Is that just an omission or is this an… Read More »

Cloud vs on-premise – collateral convenience

There is one thing about the cloud-based solutions that I started to wonder about not so long ago.. And I’ll get to that shortly, but I wanted to state the obvious first: Our cell phones become obsolete every 1-3 years. Not because they literally can’t function anymore, but because the operating system and the software installed on… Read More »