Until now, embedded canvas apps were a mere eye candy. But with just announced new capabilities you can now talk back to the form. Kind of. More “bark orders” than “talk” but this is awesome start! Embedded canvas apps now provide the ability to perform actions to navigate, refresh and save the host form. With […]
Tip #1243: Forgot to turn off the Flow
Whoever decided that you shouldn’t be able to save a Flow in a solution if you haven’t turned it off first is a cruel, cruel person Save me please In case you haven’t head, you can add Microsoft Flow to solutions now (yay!) but if you edit a flow without first turning the Flow off, […]
Tip #1228: Control default destination for you Dynamics 365 URL
In some environments with Dynamics 365 v9, when you go to the URL for your Dynamics 365 URL you get the classic default app, while in others you get the Unified Interface app selector. To control this behavior, go to the Power Platform Admin Center , select Environments and select the desired environment. Click the […]
Tip #1225: Run OnDemand Workflow in Unified Interface Apps
I did give some consideration to continuing the torture steady stream of Dynamics 365 Portals tips but we have a backlog of good tips sent to us by the community so let’s see what’s in the tipping jar first. Today’s tip is from Shailesh Wath and you too can send your tip to jar@crmtipoftheday.com. (t.j – […]
Tip #1211: Mixing entities to build complex views
The trick to get developers to get your job done for free is to challenge them. Which is exactly what Steve “Mr SMB” Mordue has done. Challenge I am trying to create a view of activities, that will show all activities performed by anyone on my team. I know I can create specific view that […]
Tip #1198: Add email address to recipients in javascript
The advantage of having access to friendly brainpower is that the problems are getting resolved much quicker. The disadvantage is that it breeds inattentive coding. Daryl “Always Raising” LaBar almost threw in a towel but recovered and redeemed himself with the snippet how to add an arbitrary email address to the list of the email recipients […]
Tip #1197: Unified Interface lookup changes
Change to how lookups behave in Unified Interface is coming in December. &tl;dr Up until now Unified Interface used Lookup View to perform the search. After the change is rolled out, Unified Interface will use Quick Find view (with resulting columns are still coming from the Lookup View), as the classic interface does. With this […]
Tip #1196: Flow does not contain data
Being a mature product, Dynamics 365 rarely lends itself to short tips these days. Microsoft Flow, new kid on the block, on the other hand, is ripe for short bursts of wisdom. Today’s one is from Rob Dawson (and you can send your nugget to jar@crmtipoftheday.com too!) With the drive toward use of Flow instead […]
Tip #1189: Fill SVG files for all occasions
I thought we chewed SVG to death and even showed how to create SVG images for a Minecraft Dynamics deployment but Tom-Richard “Another CRM Viking” Follegg proved me wrong. (Would you like to earn a “George is wrong” sticker? Send your tip to jar@crmtipoftheday.com!) By default, when we create modern .SVG files for Dynamics, these […]
Tip #1186: Race conditions with queue items
Today’s tip is from Marius “flow like a river” Lind. (And you can also become a tipster by sending your tip to jar@crmtipoftheday.com) What happens when a race condition happens in a queue? Let’s say we have a bunch of customer service representatives who are working on cases in the same queue. The queue is […]