Dynamics does allow emojies. It’s just that, and I’m not sure why nobody else(myself included) spotted this interesting feature before Meagan Walker did it in her blog post: http://meganvwalker.com/using-emojis-in-optionset-fields/ So I could not help but to dig a bit more into it. Turns out you can use emojis pretty much anywhere in Dynamics (and… Read More »
When enabling / disabling external authentication on the portal, there seem to be at least a couple of gotchas. In general, the whole process of enabling external sign in through different authentication providers is described here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/customer-engagement/portals/configure-oauth2-settings However, if you wanted to disable external authentication, you might use false for the following site setting:… Read More »
This is my personal opinion, of course, but I think it’s still difficult for Microsoft to look “cool” because, frankly, Microsoft has been and still is about doing everything. They have cloud services, artificial intelligence, operating systems, developer tools, CRM, document management, they tried phones, they.. what is it they did not try? So let’s… Read More »
And there are some interesting consequences. For example, I was wondering what would happen to a Flow if I deleted a field used in that flow. Here is the flow: And here is the field which I’m just about to delete from Dynamics: First of all, it does not have any dependencies, at least… Read More »
Ok, the title probably has something to do with Steve Mordue’s post I just read: https://stevemordue.com/the-changing-role-of-the-microsoft-business-applications-partner/ Thing is, I do believe pure developers are quickly becoming irrelevant in the Power Platform world. I am probably lucky to have on-premise clients since it’s a different world alltogether, but it’s not going to last forever either. Where… Read More »
There seem to be some kind of caching issue in v9 which I can’t exactly pinpoint, but, basically, it’s like this: When updating a plugin assembly, you may find that either the plugins are not updated or the custom workflow activities are not update correctly. As in, you may not be able to see… Read More »
An updated version of TCS Tools is available – it fixes an issue with simple type(number, text, etc) fields not being updated in some situations, and, also, adds the ability to run an on-demand workflow on all the entities returned from fetch Xml: For example, the configuration record above will instruct TCS Tools to… Read More »
You may think it’s going to be some kind of promotional post, but it’s not.. well, maybe a little. But it’s something that came up as a side-topic of the linkedin discussion here: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6441012490728980480/ My personal relationship with the MVP award is kind of controversial. I only had one, so far, and I got… Read More »
I’ve been struggling with portal caching lately – I would update some data in Dynamics, and that change would not be reflected on the portal right away. Unfortunately, there are times when this behavior is just not acceptable since it may lead to all kind of negative feedback from the portal users. And, then, it… Read More »
If you are starting to work with Liquid, Microsoft has a rather detailed documentation here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/customer-engagement/portals/custom-templates-dynamic-content But, after a few days of having to scan through that documentation, I’ve started to realize that it would be great to also have a reference page that would list all Liquid keywords and cross-reference them with the… Read More »