Dynamics: how process duration is calculated

  When looking at the BPF-enabled entity in Dynamics, we can see process duration there – here is an example: In case you were wondering how the duration (“18 days, 1 hour” in this example) is calculated, here is a diagram: If the process is still active, what will show up in the duration area… Read More »

XperiDo – starting the trial

Before I continue.. I’m not affiliated with XperiDo, and I’m pretty sure they have no idea I am writing this blog post right now. Still, I was looking for a document generation solution, and, since XperiDo seems to have some interesting features, figured I’d try it a few days ago: https://www.xperido.com/support/blog/microsoft-dynamics-crm-2016-document-generation-vs-xperido Not pretending to be… Read More »

Custom indexes and solution upgrades

In the on-prem version of Dynamics, we can create our own custom indexes. And, even though it’s a supported customization (here is a reference: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg328350.aspx ), there is at least one scenario which may fail. Basically, the problem is that custom indexes are not managed by Dynamics, so what it means is that any operation… Read More »

Turns out business process flow entities have super powers

  Did you know that, when setting up a workflow for a business process flow entity (Opportunity Sales Process, for example), we can configure that workflow to trigger on change of the related entities?   In the example above, we can trigger that workflow on change of the related opportunity entity fields etc. That’s an interesting feature which… Read More »

Setting up the gateway

Sometimes, a seemingly simple task leads to a whole lot of activities.  I did not mean to install the gateway today.. But I wanted to try machine learning studio, and, then, I found that I can use on-premise gateway to import data for the experiments. So, having considered the alternatives, I figured it might make… Read More »