Imagine that some data is being pushed to Dynamics through SSIS or other tool, and that data includes associations between non-existing users and their roles/teams. Your data migration script will diligently fail when trying to push those associations to Dynamics, just as it should. But what if, this time, you just wanted to ignore those… Read More »
This is a continuation of the Creating a web version of the plugin registration tool post Let’s start with the most important part(or so I thought when I started to look into this).. How do you get a file uploaded to Dynamics without resorting to the cumbersome “use notes” technique? There is a 3-year old post on… Read More »
For the last month or so I have been trying to create a web-only version of the plugin registration tool. As much as I’d like to say it’s done, it’s not the case. Looks like, at least for now, I just have to put it on hold since this has been taking an absolutely insane… Read More »
Just registered a new Dynamics 365 trial (v9.0.2) today, and could not help but notice something about it: Huh? I thought I was using Dynamics 365? Well, it might be a little bug there, but it’s also a clear indication of what’s coming and what’s described in the Power Apps blog: https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/powerapps-spring-announce/ The two platforms… Read More »
Another update for Configuration Data Manager is available: http://www.itaintboring.com/downloads/ConfigurationData_managed.zip Here is what’s included into this update You can use “Configuration Data” button to open the tool: There are two new dataset configuration parameters: When “Create Only” is selected, only new records will be imported to the destination environment. Sometimes, we don’t need to update existing… Read More »
Based on the feedback I got so far, there is an updated version of the configuration data manager solution: http://www.itaintboring.com/downloads/ConfigurationData_managed.zip Here is what’s included into this update: You can use more than 2000 characters for the FetchXml When importing configuration data, all non-existing references will be removed. You can still get the lookups assigned… Read More »
There are various tools out there we can use to move configuration data from one Dynamics environment to another, but what if we could add data directly to our solutions? So that there would be no need to run XrmToolBox, package deployer, SSIS, Scribe, or other tools in order to get our base data,… Read More »
When trying to deploy a package created using the PackageDeployer tool, you may run into this error: “Failed to Load the Import Configuration : Config File Missing” The error is, actually, self-explaining.. in a way. Every package has two components: there is a dll, and there is a package folder. In order to deploy the… Read More »
What if you think you can update a record, and there are all the indications that you can, yet you try to change something and it just does not work? In the example below(which I’ve originally discovered in 8.2.2, though the screenshots below are from 8.2.1), my test user seems to have “write” permissions,… Read More »
For the reasons not clear to myself, I was looking at the js-sequence-diagram library (https://bramp.github.io/js-sequence-diagrams/), and it occurred to me that I might probably use such a diagram to display the sequence of activities on the entity form. And indeed.. here is what I ended up with: If you wanted to try it yourself,… Read More »