You have probably heard that Entities are Tables now? If not, have a look here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-ca/powerapps/maker/common-data-service/data-platform-intro#terminology-updates Well, am I thrilled about it? Am I concerned about it? Quite frankly, we should all get used, by now, to all those changes in the product names and/or in the terminology around Microsoft products. Sometimes, those changes are… Read More »
Right on the heels of my previous post where I was talking about delegation in Canvas Apps, here is another one on the same topic. We can’t help but break delegation when filtering polymorphic lookups, right? Since, of course, “AsType” cannot be delegated: Well, if you are up to writing a little plugin, it’s, actually,… Read More »
Here is a warning message which I keep running into: (The “Filter” part of this formula might not work correctly on large data sets) It’s not that I keep running into it every day. But I find myself looking at this warning every time I’m setting up data sources for a new application. So, maybe,… Read More »
The script below might help if you wanted to read CDS environment variable value in your javascript web resource. top.environmentVariables = []; function getEnvironmentVariableInternal(varName){ “use strict”; top.environmentVariables[varName] = null; Xrm.WebApi.retrieveMultipleRecords(“environmentvariabledefinition”, `?$top=1&fetchXml=<fetch version=’1.0′ output-format=’xml-platform’ mapping=’logical’ distinct=’true’> <entity name=’environmentvariabledefinition’> <attribute name=’defaultvalue’ /> <filter type=’and’> <condition attribute=’schemaname’ operator=’eq’ value=’` + varName + `’ /> </filter> <link-entity name=’environmentvariablevalue’ from=’environmentvariabledefinitionid’… Read More »
So, CDS is DataFlex now. Actually, it’s important to call it Microsoft Dataflex since there is a separate non-Microsoft product called DataFlex. It’s the second rebranding of what we used to know as XRM, but it may be the one that will stick for a little longer (I know what you are thinking… but we… Read More »
We can use three different functions to save a form: formContext.data.entity.save formContext.data.save formContext.data.refresh(true…) Off the top of your head, do you know which one will result in the “onSave” form event and when? Those details might not be quite obvious when looking at the documentation for each of the functions separately, but there is… Read More »
Wow, we’ve been asking about it for a (long) while: https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-column-comparison-through-fetchxml-sdk-and-odata/ Do you want to do column comparison with Fetch? You can do it now – it’s only supported for a few conditions so far: Equal NotEqual GreaterThan GreaterEqual LessThan LessEqual And it’s not, yet, supported in the UI query building tools (Advanced Find).… Read More »
I was looking at this post by CRM Ninja, and it hit me that, even though that post had a different purpose, it had an interesting workaround for the “one relationship only” problem which happens when trying to add the same relationship more than once to the query. For example, on the screenshot below, I… Read More »
There was a quick discussion on linkedin yesterday where the post by Jerry Weinstock stating that change tracking must be enabled for the Flows to work was mentioned: https://www.crminnovation.com/blog/microsoft-flow-crm-change-tracking-option/ Given that I did not do anything with the Flows 3-4 years ago, and I never had to worry about change tracking recently, I was a… Read More »
I have never, actually, noticed, there are lambda expressions in Web API. It seems this part of documentation was updated about a year ago, I just did not know there was this addition. Well, it’s nice it’s all on github now, so I can actually go there and see when something was added. Just in… Read More »