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 »
Ryan Maclean made an interesting analogy in his recent post: https://ryannipper.com/2018/07/12/crm-development-as-easy-as-making-a-cup-of-tea/ I’d really recommend reading it; though I’d like to warn you right here.. after reading Ryan’s post, you may find that making tea is not ever going to be simple again. Actually, you may feel a bit overwhelmed by the potential complexity of… Read More »
First of all, you can’t, really, change Scrum framework. If you do, it’s not going to be Scrum anymore. But, since Scrum is just a framework, and a lightweight framework for that matter, it leaves the details of Scrum implementation to the Scrum teams. Hence, there is some room there for doing things differently,… Read More »
Easy Repro seems to be a bit unusual name for what is, basically, an automated UI testing framework, since it’s not so much about reproducing the issues as it is about testing various UI scenarios: https://github.com/Microsoft/EasyRepro And I wanted to emphasize it right here. Easy Repro is not a product.. neither it’s a technology..… Read More »
I was severely underestimating the Field Service, it seems, and I am wondering if this may happen to anybody who is thinking of the Field Service in terms of “solutions”/”applications” for Dynamics. There is a component in the Field Service solution that goes far beyond the regular capabilities of such components – it’s, essentially, an… Read More »
We had a scenario where we did not want to initialize a BPF when a record is created – basically, those were records for which it would take some time before anybody would really need to start looking at them. Until that moment, they would be staying “dormant” in the system, and, then, once they’ve… Read More »
This might be something to keep in mind.. If you have two entities with a parental relationship between them, your users may still be able to re-assign child record to others even if they don’t have “write/assign” permissions on the child entity. In the example below, Sales Person role does not give “write” and/or “assign”… Read More »
When looking at the reporting options in Dynamics, it sometimes feels that there are just way too many, and, even though there are lots of good ones, there is always something that seems to be missing. Just so we could start somewhere, let’s see what Microsoft has to say: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn531183.aspx In other words, we… Read More »
It’s been said a number of times in different blogs that context.Depth may have side effects, but I am starting to think we should actually ban the practice of using context.Depth all together. It’s almost impossible to predict plugin execution paths as long as your solution gains any level of complexity, but, even in a… Read More »