A couple of hours, and I finally got my Dynamics authentication token in PostMan! The rest will be all about using that token, but, if you have not tried setting up PostMan before and don’t want to spend a couple of hours figuring out the authentication part.. Maybe this post will help. Actually, the essence… Read More »
If you are not sure whether Dynamics Portals address global accessibility requirements, there is an easy way to find out without actually having to re-test each and every page. Although, I have to say when this question came up earlier today I really had no idea what to answer. On the one hand, as… Read More »
If you had different applications which could all be implemented in Dynamics (maybe different flavors of the case/contact management), how would you decide whether to put those applications in the same instance or whether to set up different instances for some of them? Not sure if there is a simple answer.. My colleague and… Read More »
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 »
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 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 »
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 »
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 »
Please note: This offer is on hold as of October 29, 2018. Did not get any but one question in October, so will be focusing on other things for now. What kind of questions do you have about Dynamics? Are you about to start a new trial to evaluate what’s doable? Are you facing a technical/functional… Read More »
I have my own online instance of Dynamics v9, so there is not a lot of activity there on a regular day.. but I know for sure that I did not go there even once yesterday. So this morning, when I went to the Power Apps admin center to see the analytics for that instance… Read More »