There is an interesting limitation of the business rules for which there seem to be no other workaround but to use javascript. Imagine the following situation: There is a user who has read-only access to the account record through the security roles There is a business rule that unlocks a field on the account form In theory, since… Read More »
In the last few years, I worked on a few Dynamics projects that involved data migration, and, somehow, most of the times I would settle on the approach to the data migration which I tried to illustrate on the diagram below: The main reason I usually do it this way is that, when I have… Read More »
I ran into this myself not so long ago, and I just saw the same problem in the community forums, so this is probably something that’s worth being mentioned in a separate blog post. Not every control can be disabled in Dynamics using setDisabled method It might not be obvious from the description of setDisabled method in… Read More »
With all those customization options we have in Dynamics, we can do a lot, but, sometimes, it may get a little confusing. For example, we can use worklfows and plugins. Not only that, though.. Both workflows and plugins can be real-time/synchronous or background/asynchronous. Earlier today I was observing a very interesting behavior. There was a… Read More »
Here is another error you might run into with Web API: Invalid role specified for entity in relationship It seems that, when associating two entities through an N:N, it’s important to add them to the web api request in the right sequence. For example, for this particular N:N, I originally created that N:N on the account… Read More »
I was trying to use Web API to associate a contact to an account (that’s a new N:N relationship), and ran into the error below: Unmapped Request Found Turned out, it was just a matter of having missed “/$ref” in the url I was using for the POST request: [ORG_URL]/api/data/v8.2/accounts(36859222-06AE-E711-A94C-000D3AF3E34A)/new_account_contact/$ref As per MSDN, here is how that request should… Read More »
If you ever tried using browser “print” functionality for any record screen in Dynamics, you may have noticed that it’s not, really, very useful. For example, here is what I got for an account record that had a very long description: Come to think of it, most of the data I have in that account… Read More »
As of this moment, we still don’t have SDK for V9; however, I did want to see how far can we go with Multi Select Option Sets, and, in particular, if we can work with those option sets on the .NET side since that was the only remaining question in the post I wrote the… Read More »
There are a few things we can do with the old good option sets.. Can we do all of that with Multi Select option sets, though? Let’s see.. Although, let’s actually define a multi select option set first – here it goes: From there, here is what I wanted to try: Create a business rule… Read More »
Flows are now integrated with Dynamics, so that’s something to play with/look at.. But what I am wondering about is this: there are Flows and Workflows. Flows are available in both Interactive and Web user experiences, but Workflows are available in the Web user experience only. Is that just an omission or is this an… Read More »