We have a somewhat unique Dynamics environment here in Ottawa, so, sometimes, I am wondering if what’s happening here is a reflection of the overall trend or if it’s all about Microsoft trying to adapt to the specifics of the local market. You see, most of the Dynamics implementations here are still on 2015 version… Read More »
Here is a scenario that may look rather innocent but that may cause a problem that will likely turn into a support call with Microsoft should it happen. One day, you decide to delete a user account that used to be assigned a Dynamics license: And, then, the time comes when you need to create… Read More »
It has only been a few weeks since I wrote a blog post about Alert.js, but, with the release of V9, we now have the same sort of functionality available out of the box: As described in the “What’s new for developers” article, there have been some client API enhancements in V9. In particular, we’ve… Read More »
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 »