Model Driven Apps were released as a part of 8.2 release (and were called just Apps that time). It’s really cool feature that allows you to build role-tailored applications that have functionality required for specific role. What is available through UI unfortunately is not available through workflows – there is no possibility to define specific …
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How to Retrieve Duplicates using WebApi
In this post I provide 2 ways to retrieve duplicates – using plain JS way and with usage of Xrm.WebApi namespace that was introduced as a part of 9.0 release.
Calling D365 actions/functions from Flow
Microsoft Flow is new and amazing product that allows to build different automations without opening Visual Studio. Components for Dynamics 365 for CE/CDS are limited at the moment. It’s possible to start flow either on-demand or when record is created/updated/deleted inside system and it allows to create/update/delete records and retrieve sets of records and iterate …
HowTo: open plugin/custom workflow activity project created using CRM/D365 Developer Toolkit
I have to confess that I used to use CRM Developer Toolkit (CRMDT) before Jason Lattimer’s VS extensions were released. After I uninstalled CRMDT I started to experience issues opening projects created using it. Following error message appeared when I tried to open a solution: Here is how it can be easily fixed:
Dude, where is my section?
I migrated one customer from Dynamics CRM 2011 On-Premise to D365 Online and everything was fine until customer discovered that account form looks weird – one section just disappeared:
Enable plus button for subgrids on disabled forms
Several weeks ago I got a question from my customer – when record is inactive it’s not possible to add associated records from subgrids located on entity form – is it possible to bring back “plus” button to the subgrid even if record is deactivated?
Cancelling save event based on the result of async operation
This post is similar to previous one related to showing/hiding of the button based on the result of async operation but in this scenario script allows/disallows form to be saved. In my case I check if there is any account with the same “Account Number” available already and if there is script blocks the save. …
Showing ribbon button based on the result of async operation
Earlier when I had a task to show/hide button based on the result of data-retrieval operation I used following approach – declared variable, made synchronous call to endpoint, set that variable inside the callback and returned true/false result at the end of validation function. It worked but if the operation was long-running it caused blocking …
Pass DateTime parameters to set field record values
Today I got requirement to open new record form with prepopulated DateTime field. This article describes how to pre-set Date field: The following sample sets the Est. Close Date field for a new opportunity to January 31, 2011. The unencoded value for the extraqs parameter is “estimatedclosedate=01/31/11”. No single word about time component. Luckily I …
How to make 9.0 Classic Client a bit cleaner
At the moment I do migration for one of customers from 8.2 ground to 9.0 cloud. I migrated all the customizations and customer was not satisfied with layout of updated classic 9.0 client. The biggest complain was related to huge whitespaces around fields. Just compare the same default forms of account entity 8.2 on the …