Category Archives: Dataverse

Enhanced Experience for Adding Line Items/Products along with price list in Dynamics 365 CRM

Introduction: Recently, I was exploring the ‘adding products PREVIEW’ feature which was introduced back in the 2020 release wave 1, with which enabled salespeople can add multiple products/lines to the opportunity/quote/order/invoice entities in one go. In the previous blog, we have already explored the enhanced experience of adding products for the opportunity, quote, order, and… Read More »

How to Read the current Model-driven App details using client API references

Introduction: In a recent project while working on client-side scriptings, we had come across a requirement where we interact with Dynamics 365 CRM data using WebAPI and query expressions. In most cases, we needed the current Model-driven app AppId to build the WebAPI URLs. We had achieved this by using Dynamics CRM Client API references.… Read More »

Decide the views you want to see in Model driven apps in Dynamics 365 CRM / Dataverse

In our earlier blog we talked about the new modern advanced find experience. As a part of modernization exercise we lost the button. Here we discuss what they gave us – Ability to choose the views that you see in the View selector. And that’s a huge one. With the modern advanced find experience enabled,… Read More »

Co-presence notification now in Preview for Dataverse and Dynamics 365 CRM

Collaboration is the key to success and being able to collaborate with other users while using an APP is no different. Microsoft has been working on strengthening the collaborations available for Dynamics 365 CRM for a while now. Collaborate using Teams – where there is a channel created with regards to an account and that… Read More »

Dataverse Search – Easier than before to find data in Dynamics 365 CRM / Dataverse

Amongst the various options to quickly lookup or search data in Dataverse / Dynamics 365, the most popular remain 1. Search box in the view – search within the view being listed 2. Advanced find search – you can setup your detailed search criteria for specific tables and columns and get the desired results 3.… Read More »

Collaboration between makers now available in Preview for Model Driven Power Apps in Dynamics 365 CRM / Dataverse

Introduction In PowerApps, Microsoft has introduced one new feature i.e. Comments. With the help of comments you can add comments against a view, form, and dashboard. Because of this feature, another person who is working on the same entity form or view will get an idea of what changes were made by the person. Mainly… Read More »

How to Add Users and Sync Profile Information in Dataverse Instantly (On Demand)

Introduction: I was creating a user in one of the online trial environment 2021 Release wave 2 (version V9.2) from Office 365 admin center but somehow it was not appearing in users area in Power Platform admin center even after waiting for few hours. It was then that I found this doc which explains how… Read More »

Configuring Dataverse Search in Dynamics 365 CRM

Introduction: Recently when I was exploring the searching feature of Dynamics 365 sales, I came across “Dataverse Search” feature introduced in 2021 release wave 2. Previously “Relevance search” feature was introduced which is now replaced with “Dataverse Search” along with some additional features. You can refer our previous blog which explains about “Relevance search” and… Read More »