Tag Archives: Dynamics

Server-Side email integration: one mailbox – one organization

When setting up server-side email integration, it’s good to remember the same mailbox can only be used with one organization: https://support.microsoft.com/en-ca/help/4053618/incoming-emails-aren-t-being-synced-because-the-email-address-for-the “An Exchange mailbox can only be configured to use Server-Side Synchronization with one Dynamics 365 organization. These alerts are logged if you have multiple Dynamics 365 organizations and try to configure your mailbox… Read More »

Dynamics Videos ( ItAintBoring production ) – Advanced Find and Emojis

In this first ever ItAintBoring video, I am talking about a couple of things: Advanced Find dialog, which is now available in the Unified Interface Emojis, which were recently discovered in Dynamics by Megan Walker

Using Emojis in Dynamics

Dynamics does allow emojies. It’s just that, and I’m not sure why nobody else(myself included) spotted this interesting feature before Meagan Walker did it in her blog post: http://meganvwalker.com/using-emojis-in-optionset-fields/ So I could not help but to dig a bit more into it. Turns out you can use emojis pretty much anywhere in Dynamics (and… Read More »

Power Platform – might be a good name for everything Microsoft is doing.. that would be really cool

This is my personal opinion, of course, but I think it’s still difficult for Microsoft to look “cool” because, frankly, Microsoft has been and still is about doing everything. They have cloud services, artificial intelligence, operating systems, developer tools, CRM, document management, they tried phones, they.. what is it they did not try? So let’s… Read More »

You may still be thinking “Dynamics”, but it’s the whole Power Platform now

And there are some interesting consequences. For example, I was wondering what would happen to a Flow if I deleted a field used in that flow. Here is the flow: And here is the field which I’m just about to delete from Dynamics: First of all, it does not have any dependencies, at least… Read More »

The end of Dynamics developer is near?

Ok, the title probably has something to do with Steve Mordue’s post I just read: https://stevemordue.com/the-changing-role-of-the-microsoft-business-applications-partner/ Thing is, I do believe pure developers are quickly becoming irrelevant in the Power Platform world. I am probably lucky to have on-premise clients since it’s a different world alltogether, but it’s not going to last forever either. Where… Read More »

Sometimes, you may have to re-build the whole thing

There seem to be some kind of caching issue in v9 which I can’t exactly pinpoint, but, basically, it’s like this: When updating a plugin assembly, you may find that either the plugins are not updated or the custom workflow activities are not update correctly. As in, you may not be able to see… Read More »

TCS Tools: Updates and fixes (v1.0.16.0)

An updated version of TCS Tools is available – it fixes an issue with simple type(number, text, etc) fields not being updated in some situations, and, also, adds the ability to run an on-demand workflow on all the entities returned from fetch Xml: For example, the configuration record above will instruct TCS Tools to… Read More »

Dynamics Portals: The most useful caching tip I found so far

I’ve been struggling with portal caching lately – I would update some data in Dynamics, and that change would not be reflected on the portal right away. Unfortunately, there are times when this behavior is just not acceptable since it may lead to all kind of negative feedback from the portal users. And, then, it… Read More »

Dynamics Portals: Liquid Reference (the missing Appendix A)

If you are starting to work with Liquid, Microsoft has a rather detailed documentation here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/customer-engagement/portals/custom-templates-dynamic-content But, after a few days of having to scan through that documentation, I’ve started to realize that it would be great to also have a reference page that would list all Liquid keywords and cross-reference them with the… Read More »