As Power Platform extends its reach beyond the realms of Dynamics 365 (CRM/CE/etc) and SharePoint, we’re starting to see some interesting integration challenges from Dataverse big brother – Finance and Operations. Today’s tip is from Parth Bhaidani. (Hey, you can have your name published here too – just drop your sizzling tip into jar@crmtipoftheday.com!) Dual-write […]
Tip #1418: In-app notifications in model-driven apps
Welcome to inaugural video shorts where all human knowledge is compressed into the bites of 60 seconds or less, to be consumed while waiting for the paint to dry. In this episode we help Lisa to enable in-app notifications in model-driven Power Apps without any code using a freshly baked XrmToolBox tool by Ivan Fricko. […]
Tip #1413: Components Required in the Solution for Relationship Mapping Deployment
Today’s winner is Linn Zaw “I always” Win. And you can be one too if you email your tip to jar@crmtipoftheday.com! Have you ever added the 1:N or N:1 relationship into the solution, created new mappings in the solution and deployment the solution to another environment only to find out that the mappings are not […]
Tip #1349: Calculated field from related record
When Marius Agur Hagelund Lind poked me with this tip I was like, duuuude, who doesn’t know that? Turns out, not a single person in my family knew that so here it is. All yours, Marius Here’s an oldie but goodie. Did you know that you can use related records to calculate a field value?Well […]
Tip #1348: Convert CER to a PFX like a boss
I have nothing but respect for Nick Doelman but his affinity with a mouse device is starting to wear me off. Yes, I’m talking about his recent post on conversion of a CER file into a PFX file. Screen after screen after screen. Phleee-a-a-se… Just looking at those give me a mental carpal injury. Plus […]
Tip #1346: Where to find Azure AD B2C Metadata endpoint for this policy
Rapid release cadence is great when it comes to innovation, bug fixes, and new features. One thing it’s not very good for is the documentation. It’s virtually impossible to keep one up to date. Take, for example provisioning Azure AD B2C and configuring Power Apps portals to use it. Documentation talks about Metadata endpoint for […]
Tip #1312: View process history from Unified Interface forms
Tipster note–this tip is an unsupported tip. It’s not going to damage anything, but it is unsupported and may stop working with future updates. Proceed at your own risk. So you have moved to unified interface, but you want to be able to see the process and workflow history for a record. Microsoft has not […]
Tip #1299: Split email personalities
In the world of the email router, incoming and outgoing profiles were separate, so one user or queue could have separate email servers. Let’s say you wanted incoming email to come from exchange, but you wanted to send outgoing email via SMTP, you could do it. With the deprecation of the email router, the only […]
Tip #1297: Base your base role on the CDS User role
The very first tip of the day I wrote was Tip 2: Use a Base Security Role. The point of this tip is don’t jam every permission needed by each group into each role–use a common role that includes the minimal permissions needed to log into the application for all users, then create smaller roles […]
Tip #1288: SLA’s and solutions
From the short and sweet department: If you have SLA’s in your solution and the SLA’s exist in the target environment to which you are importing your solution, the SLA’s will be deactivated after you import the solution. If you activate SLA’s via the user interface, your only option is to activate them one at […]