Category Archives: Technical

Use Dataverse search Suggestions API of Microsoft Dynamics 365

Dataverse Search has been a prominent feature in the Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM environment, offering access to advanced search capabilities. The earlier “Relevance Search” has been upgraded to “Dataverse Search” with some interesting additional enhancements. Previously, we demonstrated how to utilize the Relevance Search API in Power Automate and Canvas Apps. Today, let’s explore the… Read More »

Using New Bulk Operation Messages in the Plugin

Make your developers’ lives easy with yet another feature added to Microsoft Dynamics where they can perform operations using new plug-in messages that have been Introduced for bulk operations as below. Let’s dig into this preview feature! CreateMultiple: Creates multiple records of the same type of entity in a single request. Example: UpdateMultiple: Updates multiple… Read More »

Execute SSRS report using JavaScript in Dynamics 365 Field Service Mobile App

Microsoft’s Dynamics 365 Field Service Mobile app provides the ability to work on tasks and resolve issues from the mobile platform in online and offline modes. The technician can view their daily schedule, which includes details such as customer names, addresses, and appointment times. They can see the priority of each service call, helping them… Read More »

Navigating the ‘RenderTemplate’ Request using HTTP Web Request

Discussing how to generate Excel documents in Dynamics 365 CRM using a non-documented “RenderTemplate” request. We also explore its uses in the native CRM environment, while overcoming sandbox isolation mode limitations within HTTP web requests. We also provide JSON format to successfully execute the requests. Recently, we encountered a unique requirement, we needed to generate… Read More »

Auditing of Security Role in Microsoft Dynamic 365 CRM with Enhanced UI

We are already familiar with the Auditing feature, which enables us to track user access to the system, monitor updates made to specific columns, retrieve previous column values before updates, identify record deletions, and much more. Audit logs can be viewed in the Audit History tab for a single record and in the Audit Summary… Read More »

How to show Teams chat on the connected records timeline in Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM

Introduction We learned how to link teams with Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM in our previous blog. We will now learn how to view Teams chat in the record’s timeline. Email and phone calls are effective ways to communicate with customers, but chatting with them casually can also help resolve their issues faster. This gives them… Read More »

Email Template Selection Enhancement within Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM

To improve productivity and maintain professionalism, email templates are frequently used. A large number of templates to choose from can become confusing for the users. With the introduction of this new feature of ‘Email Template Selection’, users can find templates faster, using filters and views. Here are the steps to access this feature- Step 1:… Read More »

Add Custom Buttons on Editable Grid within Microsoft Power Pages

Microsoft Power Pages provide an ability to customize the forms with various subgrids or other controls through Web Pages. Each subgrid can have many OOB button capabilities, such as Create, Associate, Update, and so on. There can be scenarios where these OOB buttons do not fulfill the actual business requirements, and there can be a… Read More »