Here is a riddle: two CRM consultants, two SCRUM masters – how many people is that?
Turns out the answer can be “two”, since Natalia has just beaten me by 2.5 percent on her own PSM I exam:
EasyRepro Tips: why would you ask your test to spend time just thinking?
If you ever looked at the EasyRepro samples, you’ve probably seen a lot of calls to the ThinkTime method. Here is an example – basically, you do something useful in the test.. and, then, you add ThinkTime: What ThinkTime does – it’s just puts current execution thread on hold for the specified number of… Read More »
EasyRepro Tips: one way to work with invisible elements
When using EasyRepro for automated testing on your Dynamics projects, you will almost inevitably run into the ElementNotVisibleException: This exception may happen in different places, and, if you wanted to understand why, this thread at StackOverflow will provide a very good explanation: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22110282/how-to-click-on-hidden-element-in-selenium-webdriver Basically, as mentioned there, Selenium has been specifically written to NOT… Read More »
When working in the PowerApps Studio, make sure you are using a supported browser
When developing a PowerApps in the PowerApps Studio, make sure you are using a supported browser. You may not even realize that the browser is not supported till you run into something that’s not working – from that standpoint, it might be worth it for the PowerApps Studio to be a bit more proactive, maybe… Read More »
October ’18 release overview is out there
October release overview (probably more like a preview) is out there: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/business-applications-release-notes/October18/index It’s a huge document this time, but it’s worth spending some time at least scanning through it – you will find some interesting content, such as: Document management capabilities will be added to the portals There will be reusable content blocks for… Read More »
Unified Interface: don’t get lost in the menu – useful tooltips might be just a mouse move away
When working with the Unified Interface in Dynamics, we have application navigation area on the left side: Ideally, Dynamics should be providing a tooltip for each of the icons in that menu. Like this: However, every now and then you or your users will notice that it looks more like this: You can’s see… Read More »
Dynamics: disabling all controls for an attribute
Here is something that does not come up often.. When you have a few controls for the same attribute added to the form, using Xrm.Page.getControl(“<name>”).setDisabled won’t enable/disable all of them – it will only work for the first control on the form. At least in the 8.2 version. If you wanted to do the same… Read More »
Canvas Power Apps – OneDrive spreadsheet data source. Close the Excel first!
I was listening to the PowerApps/Flow course below, and, of course, right off the bat ran into something that made me backtrack what was said in the video a few times till I finally figured out what was going wrong. Here is the course url, btw (I like the course so far, though I’m definitely… Read More »
Setting up Teams
I like freebies – who does not? So, now that Microsoft Teams are free, I figured I just have to have them. (Want to have them for free, too? Just go here: https://products.office.com/en-us/microsoft-teams/free ) I mean, I did not really know much about teams – have not been using them where I work, and,… Read More »
Dynamics implementation as beer tasting
Ryan Maclean made an interesting analogy in his recent post: https://ryannipper.com/2018/07/12/crm-development-as-easy-as-making-a-cup-of-tea/ I’d really recommend reading it; though I’d like to warn you right here.. after reading Ryan’s post, you may find that making tea is not ever going to be simple again. Actually, you may feel a bit overwhelmed by the potential complexity of… Read More »