Introduction: For a long time now, perhaps from version 2011 of Microsoft Dynamics CRM, we could design charts and these charts are displayed as a contextual pane beside the views that display the requested charts using the data currently being displayed in the View. It is only recently that we discovered a hidden gem, the… Read More: Show HTML Webresources in Charts within Microsoft Dynamics 365/CRM »
Introduction: Workflows in Dynamics CRM (now known as Process in Dynamics 365) allow users to create and manage automated business processes. It can be used to update entity records or related entity records. Using the OOB Workflow we can only update records which are accessible under the Workflow context. If you want to update any… Read More: Using Entity Reference Output Parameter in Workflow Assembly »
Introduction: We had a business requirement, where we created a custom entity with a grid of Associated Accounts. Here, we wanted to restrict the Account while adding Accounts in the Associated View. We wanted to do this when the Account does not have the status reason ‘Approved’ by showing an error message and sending an… Read More: Plugin Pre-validation Operation to Show an Error Message as well… »
Introduction: Dynamics 365 is a leap forward from previous versions in terms of features and improvements. Even the mobile and tablet app of Dynamics 365 is updated with useful features to get the most out of the Dynamics CRM platform. Dynamics 365 Mobile and Tablet app now offers the ability to get the current user… Read More: Get Current Location from the Device in Dynamics 365 »
Introduction: Duplicate Detection has been around for a while. Earlier Duplicate detection could be scheduled as a job or it would auto-popup when creating/updating records based on the duplicate detection rules that have been defined. With Dynamics 365, we now have a way to find duplicates with a single click for the selected record. Now… Read More: Detect Duplicates Ribbon Button in Dynamics 365 »
Dynamics 365 introduced a lot of new features and improvements over the previous versions to offer more control and functionalities to the user. The ability to retrieve metadata using name is one such improvement in Web API. Previously, to retrieve entity metadata, users needed to use ‘metadataid’. With the addition of this improvement, users can… Read More: Retrieve Metadata using Name in Web API »
Introduction: Plugin Assemblies are versioned and need to be signed with a strong key for them to be registered to Dynamics CRM. Any update to the library and compiling the project may cause the version # to change or to maintain versioning practices you may decide to change the version # and this can cause… Read More: Watch out for Issues with Version & Updating Plug-in assembly… »
In our previous blog posts of the ‘Controls in Dynamics 365 for Mobile App’ series, we discussed Input Mask and Multimedia Control. Multimedia Control allow users to add audio or video to CRM records and access them on the Dynamics 365 Mobile and Tablet app. Today, let us discuss Website Preview Control. How Website Preview… Read More: Controls in Dynamics 365 for Mobile App: Website Preview »
In our previous blog of the ‘Controls in Dynamics 365 for Mobile App’ series, we discussed Input Mask Control which enabled users to add a predefined format for error free phone number entry by mobile and tablet users. Today, let us discuss Multimedia Control. How Multimedia Control can be useful for users? It is extremely… Read More: Controls in Dynamics 365 for Mobile App: Multimedia »
Introduction: Dynamics 365 provides a wide variety of controls which allow developers to add interactive components in the Dynamics 365 mobile app. Each control supports a specific set of input so you can handle variety of data inputs, for instance when a user enters a text, scans a barcode or simply touches a button. This… Read More: Controls in Dynamics 365 for Mobile App: Input Mask »