I have always been a bit cautious of the queues in Dynamics since I could not fully understand when to use them. I don’t know, somehow my technical knowledge of what they are just did not materialize into a clear understanding of what to do with them. This is until on one project business users… Read More »
As I mentioned in the previous post, solution layering seems to be explained quite well in the solution lifecycle management whitepaper, so I figured I’d give a try to something here.. and, yes, it got a bit confusing. Here is what I did in the source instance: Created a solution and added a new… Read More »
A new version of the solution lifecycle management whitepaper for Dynamics has been published recently, so I was reading it the other night.. and I figured I’d share a few thoughts. But, actually, if you wanted to see the whitepaper first, you can download it from this page: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=57777 First, there is one thing this… Read More »
Well, if there is an experimental feature, let’s experiment! https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/maker/canvas-apps/create-component Having read through that page, I thought “wow.. can I create some kind of confirmation dialog using those components?” (Hint: if you are wondering how that worked out, scroll down to the bottom to see the recording) That was a crazy idea, I can… Read More »
When looking at the application designer, we can see application ID in the link: It is the same appid that will be added to the url when you open your application in Dynamics: However, try adding that application(and the corresponding sitemap) to a solution, then export the solution, and have a look at the customizations.xml:… Read More »
You would think an MVP should know.. Ha.. Tell me about it. So, just to illustrate why I was scratching my head earlier today – there are two grids on the screenshot below, they were both just added to the form, there were no further customizations to them. And, yet, they kind of look… Read More »
There are lots of “new and planned” features mentioned in the April’19 release notes: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/business-applications-release-notes/April19/ But, it seems, those release notes are not just “release” notes – they are a bit of a roadmap, too. Have a look at the corresponding section for the Customer Service, for example: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/business-applications-release-notes/April19/service/planned-features A lot of features will be… Read More »
While prototyping my image upload canvas application for the contact form the other day, I ran into something that is probably just a quirk of the preview implementation, but you may want to be aware of this behavior when doing something similar in the meantime. Imagine that you had your canvas app working with… Read More »
You probably know that we can extend entity forms with the canvas apps – this feature has been in the preview for a while now: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/business-applications-release-notes/october18/powerapps/extend-dynamics-365-entity-forms-with-embedded-canvas-apps It would be interesting to find some useful application for this new functionality, so I figured why don’t I use it to add “image upload” area to a… Read More »
There is an interesting twist with the duplicate detection in Dynamics which kind of makes sense once you realize this is how it works, but it may not be obvious at first. Imagine that you have duplicate detection rules configured for a certain entity, and most of your users have business-unit access to that… Read More »