Many to many relationships are everywhere, from good old marketing lists to web roles in Power Apps portals. The secret sauce is in the little hidden intersect entity holding the relationship together, those of you who used FetchXml Builder from XrmToolBox to craft a query, are very familiar with. The messages to control the relationship […]
Tip #1318: Why don’t I see the “associated records” link in subgrids?
In unified interface, when you click on the more option button, you will sometimes see the the option to see the related records in the subgrid. This is handy, especially when you want to see all of the view options, like filters. But sometimes you might see the “see all records” option instead. This is […]
Tip #1158: Be very selective in the grid
As I was discussing the workaround for the N:N regression bug, I noticed that some of the users, especially those switching from classic UI, are somewhat confused how to disassociate the records in the Unified Interface. The UI can be, indeed, a bit confusing, especially when the viewport is small and the subgrid switches to […]
Tip #1154: When Unified Interface misbehaves
We know that Unified Interface is not yet on par with the classic UI. Some things are not yet there, some things will never be there because there are better ways to achieve the same results. Since Dynamics 365 is a continuously updated beast, sometimes bugs and inconsistencies make their way into a working feature. […]
Tip #187: Slow batch processing
Sometimes you need to perform checks or calculations against each record in a particular entity. If you have a sizable on premises deployment, it could be that the marketing department just came out with a new algorithm to rank the customers and some voodoo needs to be done for every account record. If you are […]