Team development for Dynamics has always been a little vague topic. To start with, it’s usually recommended to use SolutionPackager – presumably, that helps with the source control since you can unpack solution files, then pack them, then observe how individual components have changed from one commit to another. But what does it really… Read More »
Recently, there was an interesting announcement from the Power Apps Team: https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/automate-your-application-lifecycle-management-alm-with-powerapps-build-tools-preview/ Before I continue, I wanted to quickly summarize the list of Azure DevOps tasks available in this release. Here it goes: PowerApps Tools Installer PowerApps Import Solution PowerApps Export Solution PowerApps Unpack Solution PowerApps Pack Solution PowerApps Set Solution Version PowerApps Deploy… Read More »
Every now and then, I see this kind of error message in the UCI: It may seem useful, but, when looking at the log file, all I can say is that, well, something has happened. Since all I can see in the downloaded log file is a bunch of callstack lines similar to the one… Read More »
Did you ever have to tag records? What if we could organize those tags into a hierarchy, and, then, present them as a tree so the user could check off a few tags to identify the record? Maybe it would look somewhat similar to this – at the top, there is a tree version,… Read More »
When creating a custom PCF control for a subgrid, how do you display “add new item”, “quick find”, and other commands/actions/navigation items which you would normally see accompanying the subgrids on the forms? That’s what I was recently asking in the community forums: https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/PowerApps-Component-Framework/PCF-controls-for-specific-subgrid-columns/m-p/304895#M440 Once again, folks from the PCF team have raised to the… Read More »
This post may have no practical meaning, really. Well, except, maybe, that the next time somebody tells you “Organization Service has been deprecated” you can say confidently that the rumors of its death have been greatly exaggerated. I used to think that the Organization Service is going away, it’s getting replaced by Web API,… Read More »
Sometimes, all we need from a subgrid is to show us the list of checkboxes. For instance, imagine an inspection entity. A vehicle inspection maybe… Every inspection would have a list of standard inspection items associated with it. If only there were an easy way to check off all those items quickly. Of course… Read More »
Before you read this post, here is the disclaimer: whatever I write below is my own interpretation which you may want to confirm with Microsoft. Why is there a disclaimer? Well, I’m going to talk licensing below… So, you know there are two different types of CDS (Dynamics CDS and regular CDS). I am… Read More »
I like the unified interface. I did not like it when it was introduced originally, but I don’t mind it at all the way it is now. One thing I used to not like that much about the navigation in the recent versions of Dynamics is that whenever I clicked a lookup it would just… Read More »
While creating a PCF control I realized at some point that building and packaging it is taking time. More importantly, it’s taking time from the developer – I don’t mind if my laptop spent some time doing all the deployment, but why would I want to also baby sit this powerful machine? So, basically,… Read More »