Category Archives: Dynamics 365

Filter PartyList Field based on other lookup field that supports on UCI Dynamics 365 v9.x

Introduction: Recently we had a business requirement where client wants to filter PartyList field by selected account in regarding field on activity entity form. As shown in below image, when we click on party list field, by default it shows data of many entities (i.e. Account, Contact, and User etc.) Our client requirement is to… Read More »

Different ways of Publishing Power BI reports in Dynamics 365 CRM

Introduction: In our previous blog we have seen how to create Power BI reports using Dynamics 365 connector. In order to publish Power BI report, you must have a Power BI service account associated with it. In this blog, we will see how we can add Power BI report in Dynamics CRM dashboards. Once you… Read More »

Microsoft Flow – Perform action on update of specific field in Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement

Introduction: Microsoft Flow is the best thing ever happened to citizen developers. The flexibility to perform some actions and the ease at which those actions can be configured is the deal breaker. Microsoft Flow is a sister app to Azure Logic Apps, but the fact that it is so well integrated with Dynamics 365 Customer… Read More »

How to set all Party list values while migrating data of Activities using SSIS

While doing data migration of Activity entities like Email, Phone call which has Party list fields like to, from, bcc, cc etc. where we set all values i.e. lookups of different entities like Account, Contact, Lead, User, Queue etc. and manually entered an email address for e.g. abc@gmail.com. While setting these party-list values, I was… Read More »

Solved – Links Not Redirecting to Respective Webpage or App in Android Device from Dynamics 365 Mobile App

In one of our recent project, we were facing the issue where we had links on our design Html page and these links were working fine on desktop and IOS devices. But when we tried opening same on android mobile it fails. Let’s take an example: – We are developing one html web resource that… Read More »

Working on Lookup field of Dynamics 365 in Power BI

Introduction: Recently, we had a business requirement to show lookup fields name in our Power BI Reports. In Power BI Lookup columns show its guid and not name. So after some research and play around we found a solution to this problem. We achieved it by using LOOKUPVALUE function. Here as you can see in… Read More »

Connect to the Power BI Using Common Data Service (CDS)

Introduction: The Common Data Service is an integral part of the Business Application Platform, providing secure cloud storage for your app data and integrating with Office 365 and Dynamics 365. Common Data Service (CDS) is one of the way to pull data from Dynamics 365. Common Data Service (CDS) enables us to easily build and extend… Read More »

Multiple language options on a single web page in Microsoft Portal

Introduction: Recently we had a business requirement to use a localization (Multiple language options) on a single page i.e. not for the whole portal website. But we don’t want to use out of box localization concept since it applies to whole portal website as shown in above screenshot. So after some research and play around… Read More »

Obtain OrganizationService using Application User in Dynamics 365

Introduction: The Application User is the concept that allows us (developers) programmatic access to Dynamics 365 data and entities. Prior to the introduction of Application User concept we were using licensed user account’s User Name and Password to authenticate to CRM and perform operations. As a developer, you may have come across with the situation… Read More »