With Joel being busy or lazy, I’m claiming credit for that one even though I have nothing to do with it. Problem: Classic UI [allegedly – t.j.] has an issue in v8.x where Chrome will just keep ‘spinning’ on some of the forms without returning anything. Solution: Add an empty JS file to the form. […]
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. […]
Problem Guido “Future Olive Farmer” Preite was not having any luck importing a solution: This is the situation: Sandbox is 9.0.2.441, Production is 9.0.2.197. From the sandbox we exported a solution as managed, when we import to production we get the following error: this solution package cannot be imported because it contains invalid xml… The […]
Sometimes Dynamics 365 plays a cruel déjà vu game. I swear I was able to do that just last week and Dynamics 365 like: Since version 8.2.1.173 Dynamics 365 Online refuses to allow setting up or clearing optionset values in the workflow editor. Yes, you can set it to a fixed value but not to […]
Ability to copy organizations in Dynamics 365 is invaluable. Ability to perform a minimal copy is a great space-saver. But, as reported by Evan Watson and our own Joel “Silence is also a good a podcast topic” Lindstrom, beware of the deficiencies of a minimal copy. Entities that are copied are listed but what is […]
Love the tips sent to a jar@crmtipoftheday.com – always something new! Today, Elliott Hulburd unmasks a truly unpleasant bug in custom action a.k.a workflow editor that could literally cost you hours of trying to figure out why suddenly all your calls to a custom action fail. When working with Custom Actions in CRM 2016 recently, […]
During the provisioning of new Dynamics 365 trial you may find yourself in the situation when provisioning process does not complete and you receive the “Sorry, that didn’t work” error message: Fubar symptoms include: Office portal works just fine CRM trial is actually provisioned and can be found under Billing > Subscriptions No CRM licenses […]
We’ve been hopelessly late with our daily tips this week and for a good reason – CRMUG Summit in Tampa, Florida. CRM Medic booth is one of my favorite parts of the summit; whenever one feels like dealing with another puzzle, just don a white coat and listen. Ed G complained that his Subject tree […]
If you followed our yesterday’s tip and tried to set up a workflow automatically adding a user to a team, you may have seen the error message: “To use this saved view, you must remove criteria and columns that refer to deleted or non-searchable items.” The fix is fairly straightforward: find the lookup view in […]
Sometimes it’s ridiculously trivial bugs that get in the way of implementing great functionality. Luckily, sometimes they get fixed. Gustaf “Surströmming” Westerlund reports from the field. In earlier versions of CRM (I have tested it in CRM 2013 SP1) if you added a whole number field on appointment and formatted it as a timezone, you […]
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