Adding a few items to “What you can’t do with Dynamics” list … 11. Can’t use editable grids with the opportunities associated view As discovered by Joe Dubs (https://community.dynamics.com/crm/f/117/t/243918) and confirmed with my own tests, we can’t use editable grids with the opportunities associated view. Other associated views, or, at least, those I’ve tried, work just… Read More »
This is going to be a strange post(or a series of posts). Usually, it’s all about how to do something. In this case, it’s all about what we can’t do. Why does it matter? Every now and then, a change request will come in, and you’ll end up spending days looking for a solution. You will… Read More »
Have you heard about Scott Durow? He was around when I was starting in Dynamics back in 2010, he is still around now (2017), and I’m hoping he’ll stick with us for a while. He is an elder in the community.. You might say he is ancient by Dynamics standards. Although, he is not ancient like this: And even not… Read More »
“Another third-party solution? Oh, no!” – frustrated Dynamics admin Don’t you worry! This is not yet another solution for Dynamics. This is more like a reference material for anyone willing to work efficiently with Dynamics (besides, I already have TCS Tools solution.. in case you were, actually, expecting a solution:) ) Here is the analogy. Every home builder will… Read More »
As promised, here is the second part of the “let’s rule the business process.. ” post. There is an unmanaged solution you can download here: http://www.itaintboring.com/downloads/Forums/Forums_1_0_0_0.zip That solution includes a custom entity, a business process, a business process entity, and two workflows. Basically, there is everything you need to try it yourself. There are a… Read More »
I was reading a recent post by Dynamics team – they are talking about different ways to manipulate business process stages in Dynamics 365 there: Best practices for automating business process stage progression in Dynamics 365 It’s a great article, and it has some interesting insights. What definitely caught my attention is that, it seems, we should… Read More »
I was looking at the Organization Insights tonight ( https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt763947.aspx ), and I just realized that it seems to be a very special solution: When looking at that dashboard, don’t you think it would be great if we were able to get access to that information from Web API? Or, possibly, if you could set up some alerts/notifications? Usually, all… Read More »
“I have Vehicle custom entity in Dynamics. How do I find all Vehicles that belong to a particular Dynamics business unit?” Heh.. Strange you are asking – just go to the Advanced Find and build a filter – it’s very simple, isn’t it? Only it’s not, as I just learned. If you look at any… Read More »
This is just a quick reminder to anyone thinking of creating a RetrieveMultiple plugin: they are not called for FetchXml reports (apparently, they are not called for the SQL reports either). https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg328097.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396 Why is it important? Usually, we would use RetrieveMultiple plugin to either modify the query (in the pre-retrieveMultiple) or to do something with the records that have… Read More »
It was one of those unexpected errors that can drive you crazy since they provide absolutely no details as to why they are happening. Yet, I was not doing anything extraordinary – I was merely trying to create an SSRS report for Dynamics 365(turned out that’s an extraordinary task.. sometimes), it was 11 PM on… Read More »