Was looking into how to add a custom button to the entity form, and found this thread in the community forums: https://community.dynamics.com/crm/f/117/t/274955 So with a little modification(class attribute of the new button element), just so the second button looks similar to the default “submit” (which is re-labelled to “Subscribe” on the screenshot below), here is… Read More »
As I mentioned to somebody else the other day, I’m relatively new to the portals. So this blog post might not be extremely revealing for somebody who used to be working with the portals for a while. On the other hand, while Microsoft does have a very extensive documentation on the portals, personally I’d love… Read More »
When working with the portal content editor, we have the option of turning the preview on and off: That setting is supposed to either display “draft” content (preview ON) or to hide it(preview OFF): https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/customer-engagement/portals/get-started-portal-content-editor That’s what I thought, but it took me a few hours (and, eventually, some timely guidance) to realize that Preview… Read More »
There is an interesting problem that we’ve just discovered. Something fishy has been going on with the field security profiles in our solutions – some time ago we’ve noticed that, every now and then, some of the field security profiles would not be properly updated in the destination environment after importing our updated solution there.… Read More »
Note: this solution was updated to v 1.0.1 on Aug 9. Instead of the original workflow activity, there is a plugin and an SDK step now. It turned out custom workflow activity was causing Generic SQL Errors in some environments. If you just asked “what?!” after reading the title, I guess my mission has already been… Read More »
Just got some time over the weekend to look into the error logging feature for the portals – it was introduced a while ago, so, if you have not seen the documentation yet, have a look: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/customer-engagement/portals/view-portal-error-log This turned out to be a mixed experience, although, it’s certainly better to have logging than not… Read More »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »