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Dynamics Portals: setting up event registration web site (Part 3)

We’ve seen the screenshots of the event registration web site: http://www.itaintboring.com/dynamics-crm/dynamics-portals-setting-up-simple-event-registration/ We’ve also seen how event and event registration entities are setup / exposed: http://www.itaintboring.com/dynamics-crm/dynamics-portals-setting-up-event-registration-web-site-part-2/ It’s time to bring it all together and have a look at the event details page. That’s a strange page, really. It’s not exposing a form, or an entity… Read More »

Dynamics Portals: setting up event registration web site (Part 2)

Personally, I feel that customization of Dynamics Portals requires a special attitude. We are locked out of the server-side development other than with Liquid, we can’t use our familiar Visual Studio development environment, we don’t have access to the debugging tools.. Basically, it’s a very unusual experience. That said, there is a lot of… Read More »

Dynamics Portals: setting up event registration web site

Did you ever think of setting up an event registration system on Dynamics Portals? It’s really not that complicated, though it’s not quite straightforward either. Here is what I’m going to do in this series of posts: In this first post, I’ll show you what it may look like once it’s all been setup… Read More »

Windows Containers – what are they?

There are lots of technologies I’m not familiar with, but what I started noticing lately is that they have been evolving so fast that it’s sometimes difficult to even figure out a good starting point when trying to become more familiar with them. Imagine waking up in the driver seat of a car moving… Read More »

EZ Change: let’s do some configuration data migration

It’s not all about solutions, workflows, configuration changes, etc. Sometimes, we just need to move data from one environment to the other before making any configuration changes, and, of course, we need to keep the ID-s.. Can we use SSIS? We can. Can we use SCRIBE? We can. But what if we did not… Read More »

Automated Deployment: Adding a new field and migrating field data

Imagine this kind of (probably simplified) scenario: You have added a field to the contact entity in the sandbox environment. Let’s say it’s “Saved Full Name” field You have also created a workflow to copy values from the out-of-the-box “full name” field to your new custom field You want to make sure that, once… Read More »

Automated Deployment and Dynamics

Automated deployment has always been a bit of a problem in the Dynamics world to say the least, and, of course, we hit exactly the same walls while working on the most recent project. Here is what we came up with – you might (or might not) find it useful.. In the core of… Read More »

Breaking SCRUM

Here is a Scrum-related problem which I’m sure has been discussed before and will be discussed again.. so it’s just me thinking out loud. We have developers, we have testers, and we have business analysts on the team. Our product owner is not a single person but a group of people where various stakeholders… Read More »

“Share/Unshare” Relationship Behavior – something to keep in mind when working with the hierarchies of records

You might be creating a number of new entities, all related to each other through a hierarchy of relationships, and, then, you might have to set up security so that, if a user were given permissions to the top-most entity in that hierarchy, that user would also get access to the other entities. Imagine, for… Read More »

Entity Relationships in the Business Process Flows

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 »