You know I’m a sucker for some open source goodness. This time the goodness is from Aiden “President” Kaskela. (Got something to share? Send your wares to jar@crmtipoftheday.com). The Common Data Service (Current Environment) trigger in Power Apps allows you to run your cloud flow when certain fields are updated, but there are two shortcomings: […]
Tip #1136: How emails are resolved to the Dynamics 365 records
Literally a week later after Jonas “The Shuffler” Rapp was puzzled how From fields are resolved (see tip 1119), Josh Wells from the cold city of Fargo (where some of the Microsoft folks tend to congregate) chimed in with the final resolution to the problem and a very good advice: One of the best changes […]
Tip #1116: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Documents are Open Source
This tip is from Aron Fischman from xRM Edge. (You can be a tipster too, just send your revelation to jar@crmtipoftheday.com) This topic may be old news for you but I just found out about it. Today as I was researching a development topic I was pleasantly surprised to find out that Microsoft has open-sourced the […]
Tip #962: Microsoft Portals Source Code Is Available
After a very short private preview program, Microsoft has just made the source code for the Dynamics 365 Portals available on the Microsoft Download Center. We’ve already reviewed the topic on the podcast but this milestone is quite significant to deserve another discussion. tl;dr One-off release of portal source code is available for download. If […]
Tip #826: USD goodness unleashed
Whether you are an experienced Unified Service Desk developer or just about to dip your toes into the dark waters of USD, you are on a constant lookout for good code samples and snippets. But hey, why not to take it one step further? Jayme Pechan, one of the USD fathers, has made the entire […]
Tip #404: Automatically Republish Duplication Rule
Way back in tip 193 we let you know that your duplicate detection rules will get automatically unpublished when you update your customization or import solutions. What we didn’t tell you is that there is a Codeplex solution that you can use to automate this process. The Duplicate Detection Rule Republisher creates a scheduled task that will […]
Tip #309: Dynamics CRM Organizational Settings Editor
Do you need to make changes in the deep reaches of your CRM configuration that aren’t available through the CRM administration panel? Well there is a solution out there on Codeplex that you can import into your CRM 2011/2013 environment as a managed solution. This utility allows you to edit your settings without the use […]