Flow is all the rage these days but there are some scenarios where classic workflow still rules. Classic workflow has the uncanny ability to readjust itself when underlying data you’re waiting for, changes. This dialog took place not so long ago: Steve “Reads his own blog” Mordue: I want to trigger a workflow to update […]
One of the topics discussed during the MVP Summit 2019 was the brexit of SOAP API. I thought we dealt with it already but there is an additional small but important message: Stop using OrganizationProxy Matt “Platform Deity” Barbour Hold on, you may ask, didn’t you tell us that IOrganizationProxy is fine? Yes, it is, […]
It’s great to see the team advising us in advance about the upcoming features in the April ’19 Release Notes. As with any forward document, it is a living and breathing beast. Some features are being postponed, some replaced, new stuff added. Some of the late-comers are new FetchXML operators. How often you wanted to […]
We did recommend using CDS Connector in Flow (more than once, actually) and most of the time it works great. However there have been some reports that CDS Connector does not trigger in the sandbox organizations while working fine in production. Turns out, there is a good explanation, straight from the source: With the new […]
Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200 Chance and Community Chest card When planning upgrade of your 8 or 8.2 on-premises instance to version 9, there are two rules: Do not, I repeat, do not consider in-place upgrade. Raise a support ticket and get yourself a build 9.0.02EDIT: download service update 0.3 If you […]
If you need to go to the instance selector to manage one of the Microsoft solutions but you are not an O365 admin, you can’t go through the O365 admin portal. No sweat, go to Power platform admin center and you can get to the Dynamics 365 instance managers from there. In fact, to paraphrase: […]
It’s not uncommon to register a plugin on RetrieveMultiple message and fiddle with the output, e.g. drop some values, add some calculations, etc. Chances are that you are changing the QueryExpression, and the plugin is working fine in the classic UI but you will have challenges migrating to Unified Interface. The reason is that in […]
Anyone ever use any voodoo to make Quite Create from connections/stakeholders? Experienced customizer (pretending I am Joel – t.j.) If your question is how to make connections via Quick Create, I’ve created a custom entity that creates connections using workflow. You could show that via Quick Create form. Connections are useful but have notoriously bad user experience. We’ve been dealing […]
It’s Friday afternoon and the management asked you to create a quick chart illustrating your team’s bug handling pipeline. Easy-peasy. Step 1 – extract data from the Squash-A-Bug system Status Count New 4268 Under Review 1921 Planned 516 Completed 229 Step 2 – visualize it as a small dashboard: That…. does not… look… good… (tried […]
People have been reporting that Dynamics 365 triggers in Flow are not consistent. Sometimes they fire twice, sometimes not at all, sometimes they fire after a manual test run. There are some other weird side-effects I did not even look into. Why? Because of one of them quick tips. Where possible, use Common Data Service […]
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