After an update, you can’t get into your model driven app. The error says “Invalid App Site Map.” To fix this, open the app in app designer. Click the pencil to open Site Map Designer. Make some kind of update to the SiteMap–if you don’t want to rearrange the subareas you can simply edit the […]
Developing user experience is a complex iterative process and it usually takes few iterations to get things right. Unified Interface is no exception. Some things are brilliant and some, uhm, require further work. The good news is that changes are coming. The “bad” news that they are coming very, very soon so it’d be a […]
We want our users to have confidence in the apps that we create and shove down their deploy. That’s not an easy task according to Steve “Mr SMB” Mordue who asks “How do we display our icon here, instead of puzzle piece in custom app? Puzzle Pieces do not instil confidence.” “That looks like a […]
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 […]
Usually we don’t publish short-lived bugs tips but when Steven “:D 🙂 😐 :/ :(” Foster is in trouble, we all are. tl;dr When App Designer does not save the changes, watch your language. Set it to one of the 45 languages supported by Dynamics 365, that is. #@$*&^$%!( Has anyone been using the App […]
Have you ever tried editing your CRM sitemap, only to find that you somehow messed it up to the point where you can’t get in the application because the sitemap can’t be rendered? How do you get in to fix it? What I recommend is: Get a solution with a clean sitemap, either from an […]
In this video we look at the new Dynamics 365 built-in Site Map editor that is part of Dynamics 365’s App Designer. We talk about the different ways to access the designer, and how to use it to edit an Application Site Map. Give us your feedback, all of it: good, bad, and ugly, I’m […]
Way back in Tip 226, we talked about the sitemap privilege tag that can be used to hide sitemap subarea links for users that don’t have a specific entity permission. One thing that you should know is that the privilege tag is not honored by Dynamics CRM mobile apps. The rule of thumb is that […]
Recently we found that users in a specific CRM environment could not configure CRM for Outlook. The error message returned by the configuration wizard was “Value cannot be null. Parameter name: String.” Client trace showed the following: >Failed to refresh entry. Exception Microsoft.Crm.Application.SMWrappers.InvalidOrganizationIdException: Invalid OrganizationId “e79c824a-fee4-40cf-9a2f-fb79112be8b6”. at Microsoft.Crm.Application.SMWrappers.ClientOrganizationContextFactory .Get(Guid organizationId) at Microsoft.Crm.Application.SMWrappers.ClientOrganizationContextFactory .Microsoft.Crm.IOrganizationContextFactory.GetOrganizationContext(Guid […]
After you CRM 2015 upgrade, the users, teams, and roles should now appear in the Settings area under “Security Management.” However, what should you do if the new security management section is missing? Create a solution containing your sitemap and export it out. Edit the sitemap and add the following subarea to the settings area: […]
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