We all love the tips that are short, straight to the point, and very useful. Hmmm, that sounds somewhat like a dating profile. Anyway, the tip from Rick Lyle is precisely all of the above (except the dating profile, that is). I’ve found that if you’re installing Project Service Automation (PSA) into an existing Dynamics 365 […]
Tip #894: Alternate key, duplicate data, and solutions
tl;dr If you have duplicate values present in a field, creating alternate key on that field will fail. However, when a solution that includes alternate key is imported into the deployment where duplicates are present, the import does not fail and completes with the warning indicating that alternate key was not created. Long story Not […]
Tip #893: When storage is tight, eat that cookie
Today’s tip comes from Daryl “Always Raising” LaBar. (And you can submit your tips too by emailing them to jar@crmtipoftheday.com.) I was having issues downloading the OData Metadata from the Developer Resources for a particular CRM Instance. I’d click the “Download OData Metadata” and get a generic CRM Error: An underhanded exception has occurred. After […]
Tip #885: Don’t get locked up when publishing customizations
The browsers war is neverending. Today, A browser is better than B but has problems doing C, that can be done using D browser, but it deprecated feature E which we can get around in browser F but, unfortunately, it has not been approved by the network administrators as it does not support our home […]
Tip #869: Beware of minimal copy side effects
Ability to copy organizations in Dynamics 365 is invaluable. Ability to perform a minimal copy is a great space-saver. But, as reported by Evan Watson and our own Joel “Silence is also a good a podcast topic” Lindstrom, beware of the deficiencies of a minimal copy. Entities that are copied are listed but what is […]
Tip #868: Avoid changing the organization version during the reset
If you do a reset of a Dynamics 365 sandbox organization (for a good reason reset is not available for production organizations), you may receive the following message: To improve your experience with Dynamics 365, your organization has been moved to another set of servers. When this move was made, the cross-reference that points your […]
Tip #865: Watch your language with App Designer
Usually we don’t publish short-lived bugs tips but when Steven “:D 🙂 😐 :/ :(” Foster is in trouble, we all are. tl;dr When App Designer does not save the changes, watch your language. Set it to one of the 45 languages supported by Dynamics 365, that is. #@$*&^$%!( Has anyone been using the App […]
Tip #864: Use multiple personas in Chrome
Remember our ancient tip on using InPrivate mode in Internet Explorer? Your experience may vary but I found that sooner or later the private environments start stepping on each other toes. There are other shortcomings, like lost history, no bookmarks, no Ctrl-Shift-T a.k.a. “bring back that tab I just accidentally closed”. Andre “I’ve got 88 […]
Tip #856: Modifying disabled users
Today’s tip comes to us from MVP Steve Mordue. (And you can submit your tips too by emailing them to jar@crmtipoftheday.com.) Recently, we were working with one of our customers who was having some challenges with their daily manual import from their ERP to Dynamics 365. A fair number of records were throwing an import […]
Tip #854: Beware of Using Xrm Client Functions As Callbacks
Today’s tip comes from the tipper who, despite his affinity with Microsoft Flow, earned his place amongst the real developers fair and square, and who is now known as Daryl “Always Raising” LaBar. Daryl, you have the floor Writing clean code is constantly at the for-front of developers, and usually, “less” code generally results in […]