Update: this can also be caused by system views being deactivated. See https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4338690/the-view-is-not-available-error-message-appears-when-opening-an-email ————————————— You open Dynamics 365 App for Outlook and you see an error in the Outlook app pane saying “View is not available. Contact your administrator.” This part of the pane is a form in the contact or lead entity called the […]
Tip #1122: Multiple tokens in cache
If you are working with multiple user or app identities (e.g. for testing), and the code uses ADAL, and especially if the application is killed or crashes, you may occasionally get an error: multiple_matching_tokens_detected: The cache contains multiple tokens satisfying the requirements. Call AcquireToken again providing more requirements (e.g. UserId) Note that it does not […]
Tip #1088: Errors importing marketing list entity in Dynamics 365 v9
If you make changes to the marketing list entity in Dynamics 365 v9 and try to move your customization, you may receive an error importing the customization. Solution: Extract the solution and open the customization XML file Locate the List entity in the XML file Add the following tag in the XML file: <IsReadOnlyInMobileClient>1</IsReadOnlyInMobileClient> 4. […]
Tip #956: Encryption error when configuring Dynamics 365 for Outlook
You try to configure Dynamics 365 for Outlook (legacy Outlook Client) against a sandbox organization that has been copied from production, but when you do, you get an encryption error. This error can be caused by restoring a copy of a production environment that has data encryption enabled and not restoring the encryption key. If […]
Tip #893: When storage is tight, eat that cookie
Today’s tip comes from Daryl “Always Raising” LaBar. (And you can submit your tips too by emailing them to jar@crmtipoftheday.com.) I was having issues downloading the OData Metadata from the Developer Resources for a particular CRM Instance. I’d click the “Download OData Metadata” and get a generic CRM Error: An underhanded exception has occurred. After […]
Tip #874: Update email subject or body with workflow
Sometime, somewhere you are going to want to update the subject line or body of an email after it has been sent or received with a workflow. If you do, your workflow will fail with the following error: “Cannot update subject or description unless email is in draft status.” To make your workflow succeed, have […]
Tip #873: Can’t open records after Dynamics 365 upgrade
After your CRM online environment is upgraded to Dynamics 365, some users are seeing the following message when trying to open records after the upgrade: As referenced in this Microsoft support article, the answer is to clear your browser cache. In Internet Explorer, the typical process to do this is to click Tools–Internet Options–under Browsing […]
Tip #859: Error when starting mobile app
As promised in tip 850, I am reviewing the reviewers of the Dynamics 365 mobile app. For today’s tip, let’s look at this review from SRDK05: SRDK05 has negative feelings toward the app because it gives him or her an error message at step 3 of the setup process. When this happens, the first step […]
Tip #769: Careful who you use as certificate authority
Sometimes we need to call web services from a plugin or a custom workflow activity. For CRM Online it means calling it from the sandbox and there are certain restrictions that apply to the network access. These restrictions are clear and well understood, however, if you call service over https protocol, one addition restriction applies: […]
Tip #758: When users are unable to save personal views
tl;dr When no one in your organization including system administrators can create or update personal views, check that you don’t have any plugins registered on all entities to run in a context different from a calling user. Mundane details Symptoms: when personal views are created or updated, all users including system administrators receive the following […]