Edited on Nov 6: As Jonas Rapp mentioned in the comments below, the behavior described below is expected. It still makes it a bit different from what we may be used to because there is no on-premise V9 as of now, so, if anyone is still using on-prem dev enviornment, there is no way to sync… Read More »
Tracing service can make it much easier for plugin developers to understand what’s happening in the plugin, especially when there is no other way to debug the code. I was wondering, though, if there would be an obvious performance impact when using the tracing service, so I did some testing tonight: The results ended up… Read More »
This seems to be another one of those “I used to think..”. In this case, I used to think that, once a column is added to the quick find view “find columns”, that column will be indexed automatically. Well, turned out it’s a bit more complicated; although, in the end, it’s probably still correct. First… Read More »
It seems the basics of the Virtual Entities have been covered in the blog post below while this feature was still in the preview: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/lystavlen/2017/09/08/virtual-entities/ Now that we do have it in V9, it seems that one major issue that will be limiting our ability to use Virtual Entities in the real-life scenario is security because Virtual… Read More »
While we still cannot download complete V9 SDK for Dynamics 365, I just noticed that Nuget packages for V9 are available now. So those of us who need SDK assemblies to develop plugins/applications can now install those packages: There will likely be other new features there, but one of those which would not be available… Read More »
I used to think that lookup controls are using entity “lookup view”, but, it seems, I was wrong. It might be something that has changed along the way, or it might always work differently.. this way or another, it came out as a bit of a surprise earlier today when I was looking at V9.… Read More »
There is an interesting new feature available in the public preview now: You will find more details on what other feature are available if you look at this blog post: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/crm/2017/10/25/new-automation-and-visualization-features-for-business-process-flows-public-preview/ When I saw the description of the action steps there, here is what I wanted to try right away(custom opportunity close dialog): And… Read More »
In the 9.0 version of Dynamics 365 we can now use “does not contain” condition (which is, basically, “does not exist”) on the related records: http://www.itaintboring.com/dynamics-crm/v9-accounts-that-have-no-opportunities-almost-there/ So this is what I tried when I wanted to see all users without any security roles: This, however, produced an error: To use this saved view, you must… Read More »
Imagine that you had a business process enabled on the entity, and it has already been activated on a number of records. For example, here is a case record for which I have activated a business process: What if you wanted to completely deactivate that business process (and, also, detach that business process from the… Read More »
I’m not sure I’ve ever seen this kind of comprehensive “known issues” page for the earlier releases of Dynamics 365/CRM, but it’s definitely worth looking at just so you are aware of some of the issues you may run into in V9: Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement General Availability Readme (Known Issues) I just tried reproducing a couple of… Read More »