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Resolve problems with Dynamics 365 for Outlook Client with Edge

Jared Johnson, 29 June 2022

If you are still using the old Dynamics 365 for Outlook Client, you may notice issues when using it with Microsoft Edge. When trying to create/edit a Dynamics 365 record from inside the Outlook Client, it will open the record in Edge, but in Outlook there will be just a blank white popup that will e
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Using Power Apps for Teams Power FX Formula Columns in Dataverse

Jared Johnson, 05 May 2022

Formula table columns are currently in preview, but Microsoft docs state that they are only available in Power Apps for Teams for now.Now while the Maker experience is only available in Power Apps for Teams, can we create them there and bring them into our normal Dataverse environment?To test this,
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Whitelisting IP addresses in Bulk in the PowerApps Portals Admin Center

Jared Johnson, 08 March 2021

In the PowerApps Portals admin center you are able to set up an allow list of IP Addresses that can access the portal via the Set up IP address restriction option.You can only add 1 address at a time, so what if you have to add a large number, like a few hundred or more?Using the Network Monitor in
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Creating a toast notification in Dynamics 365 using JavaScript

Jared Johnson, 06 July 2020

I have seen a few comments here and there about how to create a toast notification using JavaScript. Toast notifications were introduced in the Unified Interface pop up for things like creating a record via quick create. This is where the addGlobalNotification function comes in. If you read the link
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Clearing a Cloned Product Entity Image using a Pre-Create Plugin

Jared Johnson, 30 April 2020

When cloning a product using the Clone button, the new product that is created will also have the same entity image as the original product. What if you want to stop this from happening so that it has no entity image by default?A good way to solve this would be a plugin, ideally on pre-create so you
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Toggling the New button in Inline Lookups in Dynamics 365

Jared Johnson, 03 April 2020

Recently on a comment on one of my blog posts, I was asked why some lookups did not have a new record button while other lookups to the same entity did. An example is the Primary Customer lookup on case, it only allows selecting existing Contacts.This setting is controlled by the IsInlineNewEnabled
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Scheduling Dynamics 365 Unified Interface Upgrade in the Transition Portal

Jared Johnson, 04 December 2019

With the Web Client scheduled to be removed entirely on the 1st October 2020, Microsoft are automatically transitioning environments to the Unified interface before this date, you may be surprised to see how early they have scheduled the transition if you were expecting to have until October!The Tra
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Dynamics 365 Model Driven App new navigateTo API

Jared Johnson, 12 November 2019

In early October a new method was added to the Xrm.Navigation client api documentation, navigateTo. While we already had the openForm method to open a form with Javascript, we had no way of opening a view the same way. This new method now allows us to do that but is only supported in the Unified Int
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Dynamics 365 Unified Interface Errors when Bulk running Workflows and Flows

Jared Johnson, 07 November 2019

In the current version (wave 2) of Dynamics 365 with the Unified Interface, selecting a large amount of records, around 50+ records, in a view and then bulk running a workflow on these records via the Flow button can result in the ‘Too Many Requests’ errors popping up. This will cause the workflow t
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New uses-feature manifest element in PowerApps Component Framework Controls

Jared Johnson, 27 September 2019

Earlier this month, a previously built PCF control that utilised WebAPI to retrieve records stopped working with the following error: “Feature 'WebAPI.retrieveMultipleRecords' is required to be specified in the <uses-feature> section in ControlManifest.xml before use.”Checking the PowerApps co
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Setting up views for more usable lookups in the Dynamics 365 Unified Interface

Jared Johnson, 09 August 2019

When setting up lookups in the Unified Interface, you may notice that it can show results like these below where it is only showing the entity icon or showing data that is not the name. This is because the Unified Interface lookups use the columns on the view in order, the second view pictured above
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Binding to Address Fields in a PCF Control

Jared Johnson, 04 July 2019

Recently I was working on a custom control where I wanted it to have outputs that were bound to the address fields on a contact or account. However even though I had the type set to SingleLine.Text, none of the address fields appeared in the list of fields when selecting which field to bind to. Acco
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Gotchas with the PCF Custom Control Sandbox

Jared Johnson, 28 June 2019

When creating a custom control, I had a couple of gotchas when debugging in the Custom Control sandbox which were not an issue when the control was deployed into Dynamics 365. The first issue was with inputs and typing. Because custom controls are built using typescript the type of the inputs will b
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Stopping Azure WebJobs easily with Configuration Settings

Jared Johnson, 12 June 2019

If you have a lot of WebJobs, you may be wanting an easier way to start and stop them without having to push the start/stop button on all of them, or worse for scheduled jobs since you cannot do that with a button press from the UI. There is however an easier way to do this via Application Settings
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Bookmarklet to open a record in the Classic Web Client

Jared Johnson, 03 May 2019

If you have set the Unified Interface Client as the default (details on how to do this are here) you may want to quickly open a record in the classic Web Client. For instance, you may want to access the Background or Realtime processes sessions for a record and these are not currently viewable in th
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