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Tip #1381: Fixed reference entity in Power Automate

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Need to reference a fixed record, for example, Accounts Payables, or SARS-CoV-2? Challenge with fixed records is that we have no idea what the record identifier is, how to reliably search for the record and how to pass it as a parameter between environments. Why not to use a fixed guid and create that entity […]

Posted on September 8, 2020 by George Doubinski (Twitter) in Power Automate
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Tip #237: When moving data, keep the record ID

When you are migrating data between two CRM environments, such as going from CRM On Premises to CRM Online, one of the best things you can do is move the record ID (GUID) of the records. This way, if you have a relationship or a lookup field that references another record, you will not have to do […]

Posted on October 7, 2014 by Joel Lindstrom (Twitter) in CRM 2013, Integration
Tagged guid, ownership, record identifier | 1 Comment
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