Tip #1272: A better way to notify

Telegraph key. Exhibit in the Bennington Museum - Bennington, Vermont, USA

I love my D365 email notifications said nobody Recently I spoke at a conference with Dynamics users, and I asked the group of about 50 people who liked their CRM email notifications. Nobody raised their hand. There are several problems with traditional workflow based email notifications: Everybody gets too many emails. Blanket workflow based emails […]

Tip #1269: Oh crap, I lost my app

person's hand over brown floral field during daytime

So you decide to “refresh” your development environment with a copy of your production environment, but too late you discover that copying an environment over another one makes canvas apps and flows created in that environment go away. What should you do? Other than kicking yourself for not remembering to back up your app and […]

Tip #1263: Microsoft Flow and Azure outages

Cans connected by a string that is cut in the middle by scissors

Most of you were probably impacted by a most recent Azure outage on May 2 (see https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/status/history/). Between 19:29 and 22:35 UTC on 02 May 2019, customers may have experienced connectivity issues with Microsoft cloud services including Azure, Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365 and Azure DevOps. Most services were recovered by 21:40 UTC with the remaining […]

Tip #1258: Dynamic attribute names in Flow

A "build your own hot dog" blackboard in a cafe

You know who are the most relentless follow-uppers? Super Simple Flow users, that’s who. Thank you everyone for your answers to my previous question. I have a follow up question. Is it possible to get the value of an attribute off of an entity dynamically instead of declaratively? E.g. instead of blah?[0]?.fullname something like blah?[0]?[someattributenameIgotinapreviousstep] […]