Category Archives: Dynamics 365

Update Smart Sheet at the time of entity records creation in Dynamics 365

Introduction: In our Microsoft Flow blog series, we have explored various topics related to Microsoft Flow and will keep on exploring more. Microsoft flow helps us to create a backup of our data in smart sheet. So user don’t need to download excel from CRM for further analysis. Recently while working in Microsoft Flow we found something amazing… Read More »

Working on Lookup Field of Dynamics 365 in PowerApps

Introduction: PowerApps is a quick service that helps you to easily build business apps that runs on browsers and in phone or tablet without any coding experience needed. It allows anyone in an organization unlock new business agility. Recently we had a business requirement, where we need to work on lookup field of Dynamics 365… Read More »

Automate ILMerge for Workflows/Plugins to Merge Multiple Assemblies into One in Dynamics 365

Introduction: Recently we got a business requirement where we need to merge two assemblies into single exe i.e. one .net assembly and another assembly which would serialize and deserialize, so we used Newtonsoft.Json.dll for it. To merge Newtonsoft.Json.dll with .net dll in single exe it is recommended to use ILMerge. ILMerge is a tool that can… Read More »

Show Lookup Dialog in Dynamics 365 v9.0

Introduction: In Dynamics 365 v9.0 Microsoft introduces new development feature in Dynamics 365 to show lookup dialog using Xrm.Utility.lookupObjects method. Xrm.Internal.Opendialog is most commonly used method to open dialog where we need to provide URL. But this method is not supported in UCI or mobile app. So, open a lookup window using JavaScript can be… Read More »

Parse JSON string that represents the Dynamics 365 plugin execution context received in Azure Function

Introduction: In our previous blogs of this Integrating Dynamics 365 with Azure Functions series, we have gone through a walkthrough with an example of creating an Azure Function and call the same through the following, An example of directly calling an Azure function from traditional workflows. Register as a WebHook and invoke it from a… Read More »

Integrating Dynamics 365 with Azure Functions – Part 3

Introduction: In our last post about Azure functions, we saw how to register the workflow assembly and execute the workflow using Microsoft Flow in Dynamics 365. Continuing with our series to call webhooks from CRM, let us register the Azure function created as a Webhook. We register this using the Plugin Registration Tool (PRT) From the PRT… Read More »

Handle Alternate Key Exception: “Event failed due to an exception” in Dynamics 365

Introduction: We all know Alternate Key is used for the unique identification of an entity records in Dynamics 365 in the place of the primary key. The alternate key can be a combination of more than one attributes in Dynamics 365. Using alternate key user can identify a unique record in the system. In this… Read More »

Working with String (RESX) web resource in Dynamics 365 v9.0

Introduction: As we all know the new release of Dynamics 365 i.e v9.0 has come up with many new features. Along with these features Microsoft also introduced below new web resources for Dynamics CRM. Vector Format (SVG) String (RESX) In this blog, we are going to check how to work with web resource type “String… Read More »

Integrating Dynamics 365 with Azure Functions – Part 1

Introduction: Azure function is a serverless architecture where your code is hosted in the cloud and you do not need any infrastructure to host this. Traditionally extending business logic for Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement (D365 CE) included creating plugin and workflow assemblies which would be deployed to CRM using Plugin registration tool. The assembly could… Read More »