While prototyping my image upload canvas application for the contact form the other day, I ran into something that is probably just a quirk of the preview implementation, but you may want to be aware of this behavior when doing something similar in the meantime. Imagine that you had your canvas app working with… Read More »
You probably know that we can extend entity forms with the canvas apps – this feature has been in the preview for a while now: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/business-applications-release-notes/october18/powerapps/extend-dynamics-365-entity-forms-with-embedded-canvas-apps It would be interesting to find some useful application for this new functionality, so I figured why don’t I use it to add “image upload” area to a… Read More »
There is an interesting twist with the duplicate detection in Dynamics which kind of makes sense once you realize this is how it works, but it may not be obvious at first. Imagine that you have duplicate detection rules configured for a certain entity, and most of your users have business-unit access to that… Read More »
(Update) this seems to be old news because of this older post: https://community.dynamics.com/crm/b/crminogic/archive/2017/12/20/reference-panel-section-in-dynamics-365-v9-0 No navigation icons on the screenshots there, though.. hm.. While looking at the Health Care Accelerator solution earlier today, I noticed this strange navigation panel on the right: Have never seen it before, so I tried clicking some of those items. Lo… Read More »
I see the error below relatively often, since it’s not extremely unusual to see a user that was created without giving that user any roles in Dynamics (or, maybe, that user was moved to another business unit and lost his/her roles in the process): The error is absolutely clear – we just need to assign… Read More »
You know how security roles in Dynamics are duplicated for each business units, right? So you have a role in the root BU, and there is a copy of that role in each of the child business units. So what would you be thinking if there were a role in the root business unit for… Read More »
Was absolutely happy to find this translation from the old (and more familiar to me) VSTS/TFS to the new Azure DevOps language earlier today (it’s like, “aha.. that’s what it means!”): https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/user-guide/what-happened-vsts?view=vsts
Did you ever try to create a copy of Dynamics Portal web site in the same Dynamics Instance? You may want to ask “why would I do such a thing”, but think of it this way: You cannot link the same Dynamics Portal to more than one web site record at a time, but… Read More »
A lot has changed for Dynamics developers over the years. I was looking at this old post (well, 6 years old) by Gonzalo Ruiz, and I am still wondering what to make of it now: http://gonzaloruizcrm.blogspot.com/2012/01/setting-up-your-development-environment.html I think traditionally we had these 4 options when setting up the environments for the project (well, other… Read More »
A couple of hours, and I finally got my Dynamics authentication token in PostMan! The rest will be all about using that token, but, if you have not tried setting up PostMan before and don’t want to spend a couple of hours figuring out the authentication part.. Maybe this post will help. Actually, the essence… Read More »