There was an interesting story today which came out of the It Aint a Problem experiment. Basically, a question came in with an example of a business process flow which looked more or less like the one below: There is a branch in that BPF – basically, if there is an existing account, then the… Read More »
I have my own online instance of Dynamics v9, so there is not a lot of activity there on a regular day.. but I know for sure that I did not go there even once yesterday. So this morning, when I went to the Power Apps admin center to see the analytics for that instance… Read More »
When setting up server-side email integration, it’s good to remember the same mailbox can only be used with one organization: https://support.microsoft.com/en-ca/help/4053618/incoming-emails-aren-t-being-synced-because-the-email-address-for-the “An Exchange mailbox can only be configured to use Server-Side Synchronization with one Dynamics 365 organization. These alerts are logged if you have multiple Dynamics 365 organizations and try to configure your mailbox… Read More »
Dynamics does allow emojies. It’s just that, and I’m not sure why nobody else(myself included) spotted this interesting feature before Meagan Walker did it in her blog post: http://meganvwalker.com/using-emojis-in-optionset-fields/ So I could not help but to dig a bit more into it. Turns out you can use emojis pretty much anywhere in Dynamics (and… Read More »
When enabling / disabling external authentication on the portal, there seem to be at least a couple of gotchas. In general, the whole process of enabling external sign in through different authentication providers is described here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/customer-engagement/portals/configure-oauth2-settings However, if you wanted to disable external authentication, you might use false for the following site setting:… Read More »
This is my personal opinion, of course, but I think it’s still difficult for Microsoft to look “cool” because, frankly, Microsoft has been and still is about doing everything. They have cloud services, artificial intelligence, operating systems, developer tools, CRM, document management, they tried phones, they.. what is it they did not try? So let’s… Read More »
And there are some interesting consequences. For example, I was wondering what would happen to a Flow if I deleted a field used in that flow. Here is the flow: And here is the field which I’m just about to delete from Dynamics: First of all, it does not have any dependencies, at least… Read More »
Ok, the title probably has something to do with Steve Mordue’s post I just read: https://stevemordue.com/the-changing-role-of-the-microsoft-business-applications-partner/ Thing is, I do believe pure developers are quickly becoming irrelevant in the Power Platform world. I am probably lucky to have on-premise clients since it’s a different world alltogether, but it’s not going to last forever either. Where… Read More »
There seem to be some kind of caching issue in v9 which I can’t exactly pinpoint, but, basically, it’s like this: When updating a plugin assembly, you may find that either the plugins are not updated or the custom workflow activities are not update correctly. As in, you may not be able to see… Read More »
An updated version of TCS Tools is available – it fixes an issue with simple type(number, text, etc) fields not being updated in some situations, and, also, adds the ability to run an on-demand workflow on all the entities returned from fetch Xml: For example, the configuration record above will instruct TCS Tools to… Read More »