Did you ever have to look into the DateTime fields behaviour in Dynamics? DateTime fields can be “User Local”, “Date Only”, and “Time Zone independent”: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn946904.aspx If what you see at that link does not look 100% clear (and, to me, it did not.. until a few days ago), let me try to explain it… Read More »
I’ve been working on the Dynamics Plugin Developer Course lately, and, it seems, it’s finally shaping up: Plugin Developer Course At this point, I may need a few “testers” (although, guinea pigs might be a better name for what you are going to be up to since I really need to test the whole model on… Read More »
You know how we’ve always been looking for ways to export data from Dynamics, and that’s never been a simple task. There are reports, there are templates, there are plugins, workflows, and custom actions.. But how about this (hint – it’s all javascript): This is something that I learned from the guys at MNP (former… Read More »
POA table is well known for its ability to cause performance issues, so, even though we can’t avoid record sharing, it’s always been recommended to sort of keep record sharing at bay by reducing the number of records in the POA. This is where Access Teams come into play. Sure we can use Owner Teams… Read More »
I have to admit, I have not worked a lot with the portals. It’s always been occasional. But every time I turn to them, somehow it feels like the concept itself is almost foreign to Dynamics. Not because there is no need for the portals – there has always been, and there is still a… Read More »
A plugin registered in the validation step won’t intercept any of the changes that get added to the plugin Target in the pre-create. It seems so obvious.. but it’s not something I’d normally be thinking about when developing the plugins. One of the plugin patterns most of us like using looks like this: – We… Read More »
When talking to the client about the business requirements, it’s always tempting to think that we can do just about anything in the plugins if we really have to. And it’s true that plugins allow us to implement very powerful customizations, but, on the other hand, that power does not come for free – we… Read More »
There are other ways of doing this, but here is how you can use CodeNow plugin for XrmToolBox to update FetchXml for a system view (you will need, at the minimum, v1.0.0.18 of the CodeNow plugin) Load CodeNow plugin (if it’s not installed yet, go to the plugin store in XrmToolBox and install the plugin… Read More »
I’ve finally downloaded the tools for Dynamics365 V9. Not a big deal, you might say, since those tools used to be part of the SDK package all the time.. and I was waiting for this to be delivered in the same way it has always been delivered.. Only to find out it’s different now You… Read More »
I’ve been experimenting with the CodeNow plugin, and there is a new version (1.0.0.15) you can now download from the plugin store. There are some user interface improvements(progress indicator, better error reporting, better logging), but, also, there is a new piece of functionality which you can see on the screenshot below: This is a dashboard… Read More »