WARNING: Niche L400 tip ahead. tl;dr If you’re expect primary column name to be tablename + “id“, add an exception for systemuser and team tables – both will come back as ownerid in custom API. L400 If custom API has an output property of type EntityReference then, for example, for account (or any other “normal”) table, the […]
Tip #1395: Take over that Power Apps app you don’t own
Can’t edit a canvas app because you’re not the owner and the original owner is away, slacking off or gone for good? Eric Regnier figured out the way to deal with the situation like a boss (You can be like a boss too by sending your next tip to jar@crmtipoftheday.com).
Tip #1394: Make connections as other people
I’m writing a Power Automate flow, and I want to have other connections like OneDrive and Outlook owned by other accounts, such as a service account. Yash Agarwal had a great suggestion on how to handle this: Share the flow with the service account as an owner, then open the flow as the service account […]
Tip #490: Do not reuse the owner field
So you are creating an entity in Dynamics CRM and you need a user lookup field. Why not just re-label the owner field? Sure, it is not specifically a record owner, but we don’t really need that for this entity anyway, as we will never tie security to it, right? Don’t do it! Chances are […]