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.
Category: Development
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 …
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 …
Html Webresource, Classic UI vs UCI – story of broken functionality
This morning started for me from bug I found really interesting. Product (custom visualization of data we did using Html/JS webresource developed for customer) didn’t work as it should on the UCI. The same time everything worked fine on the Classic UI Client. My investigation led to scary fact – OOB Api (even in your …
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.
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:
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. …