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 »
What the heck am I talking about? “Business Unit” ownership!? That’s not even a thing: That’s more or less what I replied in the community forums to somebody who was asking about “business unit” ownership. And yet, it does exist, even if it’s not something you can set up for your own custom entities:… Read More »
Was trying to enable data encryption in Dynamics and the next thing I knew there was an error message: Invalid User Authorization The user authentication passed to the platform is not valid. It’s a rather vague message to say the least, so a quick google search revealed some links but no definitive answers. Lucky for… Read More »
When designing a form in Dynamics, we can specify, for each section, how field labels will be aligned. It does not seem to have any effect on how those labels show up on the portal, though, since they would always be displayed on top of the fields: So how do we change label alignment… Read More »
I was trying to export data to an excel spreadsheet earlier today and ran into something that I have not seen before: Failed to Generate Excel An error occurred when Dynamics 365 tried to generate the Excel file. If this problem persists, contact your system administrator. This was happening on a seemingly innocent view which… Read More »