Tip #1435: Update Dataverse user photo from Office 365 profile

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If you think that the title looks suspiciously close to Tip #1378: Update Common Data Service user photo from Office 365 profile, you’d be absolutely right. Why? Because historically Power Platform is renowned for two traits: renaming things and changing behaviors of those things. I’ve taken care of the former by replacing Dataflex Common Data […]

Tip #1378: Update Common Data Service user photo from Office 365 profile

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I had things stolen from me, I gave things away on many occasions. But I never ever lost anything. What’s the secret? Time perception. I do not lose things, I only temporarily misplace them The Enabler Consider this. Last year I created a folder for all the good tips coming in from the fellow tipsters, […]

Tip #1329: Video Guide to 2020 Wave 1: Adding Images to Knowledge Articles

In today’s video tip, we cover how to add images to knowledge articles in Dynamics 365 in 2020 Wave 1. Traditionally, if you wanted to include images in knowledge articles, you had to host them externally and link to the external image file. Starting with 2019 wave 2, you can enable a setting that allows […]

Tip #1200: Placeholders, colors & lorem ipsum

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To celebrate 1,200 tips I picked up a topic completely unrelated to Dynamics 365/CDS, as one cwshould. Well, sort of. I was working on some materials related to Dynamics 365 Portals and, lo and behold, I needed some placeholders besides qwerty asdf. Text As a placeholder text, you can’t go past lorem ipsum and the original https://lipsum.com. […]