Tip #1081: Magic of managed solutions and sitemaps

Magic

The topic of managed solutions and sitemaps turned out to be so popular that a few trucks stopped by for the first Tipping Truckstop of 2018. tl;dr Before installing any managed solution, backup your sitemap. Because Managed solutions and sitemap are like magicians and their assistants: one distracts the audience, another one disappears. The story […]

Tip #418: 3 ways to find the blocking attribute

Shan “Smoke ’em” McArthur wonders during another mini truck stop if there is any way to find a blocking attribute using nothing but its id. The error message usually looks like this: A managed solution cannot overwrite the Attribute component with Id=e7840116-dead-beef-a5e5-8b5cb27e9509 for the CRM org noneofyourbusiness.crm.dynamics.com That said, I have no way of looking […]

Tip #373: Careful with delete button

As it turns out, Spießrutenlaufen is no longer exclusive developers domain and can be equally applied to the customizers. Shan “Smoke ’em” McArthur reminded all of us (and not for the first time) that it’s not all unicorns and rainbows with managed solutions. If you ever delete a form for the entity that is part […]