Almost a month has passed since the previous post on the DevOps topic, so, the imaginary “Debbie” developer has left the project, and, it seems, I have to finish development of that second feature myself… Oh, well. Let’s do it then! (Tip: if you have no idea what I am talking about above, have… Read More »
If you ever tried using out of the box N:N relationships, you may have noticed that, out of the box, we cannot filter the lookups when adding existing items to the relationship subgrids. In other words, imagine you have 3 entities: Main entity Complaint entity Finding entity Main entity is the parent entity… Read More »
If you are working in the online environment where authentication requirements have started to shift towards the MFA, you might be noticing that tools like XrmToolBox (or even the SDK itself) are not always that MFA-friendly. To begin with, MFA is always interactive – the whole purpose of multi-factor authentication is to ensure that… Read More »
There is a bunch of useful admin cmdlets we can use with the PowerPlatform, but, as it turned out, they can be a little tricky. As part of the CI/CD adventure, I wanted to start using those admin scripts to create/destroy environments on the fly, so here is what you may want to keep in… Read More »
Now that John and Debbie have there own dev/test instances, and they also have their own development branches in Git (Feature1 for John, Feature2 for Debbie), it’s time for them to start making changes. John was supposed to add a new entity, so let’s just assume he knows how to do that in the… Read More »
In the two of my recent posts, I tried approaching CI/CD problem for Dynamics, but, in the end, I was obviously defeated by the complexity of either of those two approaches. Essentially, they were both artificial since both assumed that we can’t use source control merge. If you are wondering what those two attempts… Read More »
I’ve been definitely struggling to figure out any kind of sane “merge” process for the configuration changes, so I figured I’d just try to approach ALM differently using the old good “master configuration” idea (http://gonzaloruizcrm.blogspot.com/2012/01/setting-up-your-development-environment.html) Here is what I came up with so far: There are two repositories in Git: one for the… Read More »
Team development for Dynamics has always been a little vague topic. To start with, it’s usually recommended to use SolutionPackager – presumably, that helps with the source control since you can unpack solution files, then pack them, then observe how individual components have changed from one commit to another. But what does it really… Read More »
Recently, there was an interesting announcement from the Power Apps Team: https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/automate-your-application-lifecycle-management-alm-with-powerapps-build-tools-preview/ Before I continue, I wanted to quickly summarize the list of Azure DevOps tasks available in this release. Here it goes: PowerApps Tools Installer PowerApps Import Solution PowerApps Export Solution PowerApps Unpack Solution PowerApps Pack Solution PowerApps Set Solution Version PowerApps Deploy… Read More »
Every now and then, I see this kind of error message in the UCI: It may seem useful, but, when looking at the log file, all I can say is that, well, something has happened. Since all I can see in the downloaded log file is a bunch of callstack lines similar to the one… Read More »