Note: this solution was updated to v 1.0.1 on Aug 9. Instead of the original workflow activity, there is a plugin and an SDK step now. It turned out custom workflow activity was causing Generic SQL Errors in some environments. If you just asked “what?!” after reading the title, I guess my mission has already been… Read More »
Just got some time over the weekend to look into the error logging feature for the portals – it was introduced a while ago, so, if you have not seen the documentation yet, have a look: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/customer-engagement/portals/view-portal-error-log This turned out to be a mixed experience, although, it’s certainly better to have logging than not… Read More »
Turns out the answer can be “two”, since Natalia has just beaten me by 2.5 percent on her own PSM I exam:
If you ever looked at the EasyRepro samples, you’ve probably seen a lot of calls to the ThinkTime method. Here is an example – basically, you do something useful in the test.. and, then, you add ThinkTime: What ThinkTime does – it’s just puts current execution thread on hold for the specified number of… Read More »
When using EasyRepro for automated testing on your Dynamics projects, you will almost inevitably run into the ElementNotVisibleException: This exception may happen in different places, and, if you wanted to understand why, this thread at StackOverflow will provide a very good explanation: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22110282/how-to-click-on-hidden-element-in-selenium-webdriver Basically, as mentioned there, Selenium has been specifically written to NOT… Read More »
When developing a PowerApps in the PowerApps Studio, make sure you are using a supported browser. You may not even realize that the browser is not supported till you run into something that’s not working – from that standpoint, it might be worth it for the PowerApps Studio to be a bit more proactive, maybe… Read More »
October release overview (probably more like a preview) is out there: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/business-applications-release-notes/October18/index It’s a huge document this time, but it’s worth spending some time at least scanning through it – you will find some interesting content, such as: Document management capabilities will be added to the portals There will be reusable content blocks for… Read More »
When working with the Unified Interface in Dynamics, we have application navigation area on the left side: Ideally, Dynamics should be providing a tooltip for each of the icons in that menu. Like this: However, every now and then you or your users will notice that it looks more like this: You can’s see… Read More »
Here is something that does not come up often.. When you have a few controls for the same attribute added to the form, using Xrm.Page.getControl(“<name>”).setDisabled won’t enable/disable all of them – it will only work for the first control on the form. At least in the 8.2 version. If you wanted to do the same… Read More »
I was listening to the PowerApps/Flow course below, and, of course, right off the bat ran into something that made me backtrack what was said in the video a few times till I finally figured out what was going wrong. Here is the course url, btw (I like the course so far, though I’m definitely… Read More »