Author Archives: Alex Shlega

Supported or not? Maybe it does not matter

Just came across an interesting post in the Dynamics Team blog: Set default Business Process on a form while creating new record It is interesting in two different ways. First, it is offering a nice example of how to implement a useful feature.  When there are multiple business processes per entity, we can order those… Read More »

Your own dev environment is the only real support guarantee when it comes to the open source solutions (aka Github-based).. #DynamicsConsulting

With any open source solution for Dynamics (aka Github-based), the only real support guarantee is to get the source code to your own dev environment and to build it there. Only then can you safely use that solution in production.. Don’t do that, and you’ll find yourself in trouble when the author abandons that solution and you will have to… Read More »

Keep your coding skills sharp #DynamicsConsulting

Everyone is sharing uplifting stories these days. So, here is a story.. A client of mine had a custom case management web application which they were moving to Dynamics. That application was built on ColdFusion, it had no technical documentation,  and the one and only requirement for this project was, really, to replicate its functionality… Read More »

Albert Einstein and Dynamics

“As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.”    –Albert Einstein There! That’s how I feel about Dynamics most of the time. Off the top of my head, here is a short list of those Dynamics… Read More »

Customer Portals: Adding Dynamics integration to the existing site

What if you wanted to add Dynamics integration to an existing web site rather than to re-create that web site from scratch in the Dynamics Portals? For example, how difficult would it be to add basic customer portal functionality to my WordPress blog? I already blogged about using Dynamcis 365 plugin for WordPress earlier: http://www.itaintboring.com/dynamics-crm/using-dynamics-with-wordpress/… Read More »

How to: roll up without limitations

Rollup fields in Dynamics are great, they are very useful, they are there out of the box, and a lot has been written about them. Although, if you wanted to start somewhere, the page below would give you all the details: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn832162.aspx That said, there is a bunch of things you can’t do with the… Read More »