As you may know, Dialogs have been deprecated and are going away. I have a few customers who’ve asked me to replace their existing dialogs with something that would allow them to get the same result without losses in functionality. Microsoft recommends 2 techniques to replace Dialogs – BPF and Canvas Apps (embedded or opened …
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Populate Regarding and Activity Party Fields in the UCI Interface
There are a few different approaches developers used to prepopulate the “Regarding” and “Activity Party” fields of activities: The “Microsoft” way – the way the Classic UI worked to prepopulate fields – usage of undocumented parameters passed through the url and different variations around it. From Microsoft’s perspective this approach is unsupported. I’ve published 2 …
Open proper form based on record’s data – UCI way
A cool feature of the 2011 CRM version was the possibility to have multiple forms for the same entity. That feature is awesome but it has one drawback – it’s not possible to create some kind of dependency between the form to use in the context of data. Among developers, there were a few ways …
What’s new in D365 2020 Wave 1 release for front-end developers
There are a lot of different blog posts and video reviews of features available as a part of the Dynamics 365 2020 Wave 1 release. I played with this release a bit and found 2 client-side code enhancements that can be interesting (or even useful) for developers.
Xrm.Navigation.navigateTo – gotchas, tricks and limitations
Here are ways that were used by developers to show Modal Dialogs: Xrm.Internal.openDialog Alert.js Custom Dialogs that used different frameworks like jQuery UI Dialog or similar But the main and common issue of options available was that those approaches can’t be considered as supported. And it stayed the same for years until Microsoft introduced Xrm.Navigation.navigateTo …
Xrm.Utility.lookupObjects: Episode 3: The UCI strikes back
Today was the last day of the North America UGSummit. It was my 3rd UGSummit and I’m already prepared to pack my bags to travel to next year’s UGSummit in Nashville, TN. I like it a lot for many reasons – reconnecting with my MVP Family, thought-provoking sessions, networking, and the “CRMUG Medics” booth. For …
Refreshing the ribbon – form vs grid
So today my colleague experienced issue refreshing ribbon of the grid. According to SDK formContext.ui.refreshRibbon had to to the trick but it did not work. After some digging and googling I found an answer – there is a global function using which it is possible to refresh the grid – refreshRibbon so here is tip …
Installing D365CE 9.0 – step by step instruction
Microsoft released on-premise version of Dynamics 365 for Customer Engagement a month ago. In this post I share experience I got during installation.
How to make 9.0 Classic Client a bit cleaner – 2
In one of my previous posts I played with layout of new WebClient. Idea of this post I got from question was asked on CrmUG forum – is it possible to remove big gray areas under sections? I played a bit and found a way:
HowTo: Show ribbon button depending on Application running
Several days back I saw an email from Steve Mordue MVP asking if it is possible to filter ribbon elements based on application like it’s implemented for entities, views and forms. Answer was that at the moment there is no easy way to do it. In this post I will help Steve to resolve his …