Tip #1298: Quickest way to filter views and forms in an app

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Today’s tip from Linda Connolly – thanks! You can send your tip to jar@crmtipoftheday.com too! I spotted this one when doing some work earlier in the week.  If you’re building a business unit specific solution for a customer and want to quickly and easily only show them the views/forms designed for them, add the Site […]

Tip #1280: To split, or not to split, that is the question!

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The subject of today’s tip is highly debatable but Eric Regnier did do justice to it. (Want to start a discussion of your own? Email your tip to jar@crmtipoftheday.com) In many implementations particularly complex ones, often comes a situation to determine if the same entity should be used for the different “types” (or categories). Say […]

Tip #1279: Select your region in multi-geo deployments

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Today’s tip is from Moez Tounsi (and if you have a tip of your own, email to to jar@crmtipoftheday.com). It is about Dynamics 365 Administration Center (yes, it’s still there – t.j.). Let’s say we have a tenant in EMEA (crm4) with multi-geo activated in it and a couple of Instances in NA others are […]

Tip #1278: This message never ends

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Sometimes even the best of the best could be puzzled by the mysterious innerworkings of Dynamics 365/CDS SDK. Tanguy “The XRM Toolbox” Touzard was not having a good day… For one of my projects, I’m using ReassignObjectsOwnerRequest SDK message to move records from one team to another team. When this request should last more than […]

Tip #1270: Table or view is not full-text indexed

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Today’s tip is from Marius Agur Hagelund “Viking” Lind (actually, I’m confused, perhaps it’s Marius “Viking” Agur Hagelund Lind?). Got a tip of your own? Send it to jar@crmtipoftheday.com. Cannot use CONTAINS or FREETEXT predicate on table or indexed view because it is not full-text indexed Mean SQL Server If you’ve ever got this error […]

Tip #1268: Restrict CDS instance creation

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With P2 licensing, can you control who can spin up a CDS instance via Azure Active Directory since each license comes with 2 CDS instances? (we don’t want hundreds of CDS instances cluttering up our tenant) The question from an enterprise business size UG member, generously relayed to us by Jerry “Forever Tipster” Weinstock Via […]