For the reasons not clear to myself, I was looking at the js-sequence-diagram library (https://bramp.github.io/js-sequence-diagrams/), and it occurred to me that I might probably use such a diagram to display the sequence of activities on the entity form. And indeed.. here is what I ended up with: If you wanted to try it yourself,… Read More »
What the heck am I talking about? “Business Unit” ownership!? That’s not even a thing: That’s more or less what I replied in the community forums to somebody who was asking about “business unit” ownership. And yet, it does exist, even if it’s not something you can set up for your own custom entities:… Read More »
Was trying to enable data encryption in Dynamics and the next thing I knew there was an error message: Invalid User Authorization The user authentication passed to the platform is not valid. It’s a rather vague message to say the least, so a quick google search revealed some links but no definitive answers. Lucky for… Read More »
When designing a form in Dynamics, we can specify, for each section, how field labels will be aligned. It does not seem to have any effect on how those labels show up on the portal, though, since they would always be displayed on top of the fields: So how do we change label alignment… Read More »
I was trying to export data to an excel spreadsheet earlier today and ran into something that I have not seen before: Failed to Generate Excel An error occurred when Dynamics 365 tried to generate the Excel file. If this problem persists, contact your system administrator. This was happening on a seemingly innocent view which… Read More »
We can use entity[“<attributeName>”], or we can use entity.GetAttributeValue<T>(“<attributeName>”) The second option won’t produce an exception if the attribute is missing – it will return null instead. It will also return null if the value of that attribute is, actually, null. This may look all right, but there is a difference. So when does… Read More »
When looking at the BPF-enabled entity in Dynamics, we can see process duration there – here is an example: In case you were wondering how the duration (“18 days, 1 hour” in this example) is calculated, here is a diagram: If the process is still active, what will show up in the duration area… Read More »
One of the main problems with the out of the box word templates in Dynamics is that we can’t really use lists. Well, we can add a repeater, but we cannot sort those lists. And, if we cannot sort them, they are becoming somewhat useless once there are more than a few related records in… Read More »
Before I continue.. I’m not affiliated with XperiDo, and I’m pretty sure they have no idea I am writing this blog post right now. Still, I was looking for a document generation solution, and, since XperiDo seems to have some interesting features, figured I’d try it a few days ago: https://www.xperido.com/support/blog/microsoft-dynamics-crm-2016-document-generation-vs-xperido Not pretending to be… Read More »
In the on-prem version of Dynamics, we can create our own custom indexes. And, even though it’s a supported customization (here is a reference: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg328350.aspx ), there is at least one scenario which may fail. Basically, the problem is that custom indexes are not managed by Dynamics, so what it means is that any operation… Read More »