Tip #817: Display knowledge articles in the portals using custom templates

Books

Dynamics 365 portals come with a specially crafted pages for browsing Knowledgebase Articles by category as well as for displaying the content. KB content page is based on a rewrite-style template and is not customizable. It’s not difficult to put together an entity list and entity form to display the list of the articles and […]

Tip #815: Make your Dynamics 365 portal speak local language

Swedish Chef

As of the time of writing, Dynamics 365 supports 45 languages. But there is only one English, one Spanish, and one French (to name a few) which makes people in UK, Australia, entire South America, and Canada fairly disappointed, considering that the list of locales contains about 230 entries. We learned to deal with the […]

Tip #813: Renaming default app

Change something

I couldn’t believe that there is something in Dynamics 365 world that Scott “Mr. Ribbon Workbench” Durow doesn’t know! Scott When importing solutions from 8.1 into 8.2 or upgrading orgs – is there a trick to rename the default app from ‘Dynamics 365 – custom’ to something else without having to create a new app? […]

Tip #811: Multilingual portals and external authentication providers

Sign language

After on and off hiatus caused by the festivities season we are back with another annual round of the daily tips. If you have external authentication providers all worked out in your Dynamics 365 Portal, and then you enable multilingual feature so that your portal looks fine in, say, Kazakh (yes, it’s one of the […]

Tip #810: Using Fiddler with Xrm Tooling

Old violin

Sometimes it’s very useful to see what requests are flying forth and back between your code and Dynamics 365. The tool of trade is, of course, Fiddler. Fiddler allows https traffic analysis by using man-in-the-middle interception using self-signed certificates. If you are using Xrm Tooling and, specifically, CrmServiceClient then you quickly find that the following code: […]

Tip #798: CrmServiceClient and multiple instances

Reduce reuse recycle

If you are using Microsoft.Xrm.Tooling.Connector.CrmServiceClient and relying on nuget to reference the assembly in your project (as you should) then you need to be aware of what seems to be an odd behavior but is, in fact, a bug fix. Run the following code: And get: Wait a minute, what? Same user and org? Despite […]