• Electronic Signing Made Affordable and Easy

      Gayan Perera, 19 August 2020

      There are several electronic signing solutions out there in the market. However, they are expensive, have features locked behind paywalls, hard to integrate with, don’t work well on a mobile, and the minute you say you’re an enterprise the price goes way up.Well, that pain is now over. We found a so

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    • How to Easily Debug a Timer Trigger Azure Function Locally

      Adam Murchison, 14 August 2020

      When trying to run a timer triggered Azure Function locally it is unconventional to wait for the timer to hit or updating the timer to a small amount of time to debug. Instead you can add in a parameter to trigger the function so that it runs instantaneously.Important notes:You’ll need to have the A

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    • AI for Good: Gateway to the World through the Microsoft Translator App

      Harshani Perera, 10 August 2020

      I’d love to travel to different countries, experience foreign cultures, and maybe even work or study there for a few years. Living abroad for a year or two can really solidify your understanding of a new culture. Even if that’s not a possibility, a short holiday can open your eyes to a new world wit

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    • Who is needed in the team for Dynamics 365 project success?

      Ryan Ingram, 05 August 2020

      So, you’re considering launching into a new Dynamics 365 project (whether a new deployment, upgrade or migration)??One of the key things to understand is what kind of resources and how much time should you allocate to your team to ensure the project has the best chance of success. We’ve found that g

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    • Logging into Dynamics 365 XrmToolBox with Multi-Factor Authentication

      Nick Chin, 04 August 2020

      Until earlier this year, users who had multi-factor authentication (MFA) enabled could connect to the Organization Service without needing to use MFA.However, if you try this method to connect to an Organization through XrmToolBox now you may encounter an error. This is what it looks like:If you are

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    • How to Retrieve Out of the Box Entity Icons in Dynamics 365

      Sean Roque, 03 August 2020

      There are some situations where you might want to reuse the out of the box entity icons (e.g. Contact) such as the Interactive Experience form related panel:However, they are not readily accessible as web resources that you can set by default.Instead, you can access the .svg file directly by navigat

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    • Modifying Azure Active Directory B2C Password Policies using Powershell

      Alfwyn Jordan, 31 July 2020

      We’d previously set up a client with an Azure Active Directory B2C, and now we were receiving complaints about the clients’ passwords expiring.To remedy this, we needed to change the password policy, and not just for one or two users but for all the users. The quickest method was to use the Azure Ac

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    • How Learning to Fly improved my Software Development Process - Checklists

      Gayan Perera, 30 July 2020

      I started learning to fly about 15 years ago because I got bored writing code and it’s something I’d always wanted to do. As I started learning to fly, the instructors would always make a point to use checklists. Then, I started to see that the concepts being taught in aviation could be applied to t

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    • Ensuring a Quality Dynamics 365 System

      Roshan Mehta, 27 July 2020

      One of my main responsibilities as a Technical Lead at Magnetism is to make sure that we deliver a quality system to our clients. When you buy a brand-new car, you wouldn’t be happy if there was even the tiniest scratch on it, so why would you settle for a brand-new system that is cluttered, confusi

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    • The Low Code, No Code Revolution

      Ryan Ingram, 23 July 2020

      What is it? Can it help my organisation? What are the benefits and some pitfalls?Low-Code, No Code is a term that has been discussed a lot recently and we’re seeing a few of our clients turn their hand at this with the Power Platform as a viable alternative to traditional custom development. As we w

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    • The Never-Ending Story : Learning to Learn

      Jaime Smith, 21 July 2020

      The past few months has provided time for me to reflect on the good work that we do and how we can do it better, doing good is not enough. Better is a never-ending story and it is possible when the focus is on growth not solely on achievement. However, it is too easy to “get on with the job” and foc

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    • New Dialog Builder PCF Custom Control for Dynamics 365 AppSource

      Paul Nieuwelaar, 20 July 2020

      Our Dialog Builder app (formerly Alert.js) was recently re-approved for Microsoft AppSource, and with it comes a new PCF Custom Control that allows you to build dialogs right from within the custom control UI, without having to write any custom code.This PCF control is exclusive to the AppSource ver

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    • How Can Software Developers Stay Up To Date?

      John Eccles, 17 July 2020

      Magnetism has long been committed to excellence through mastery. It’s a core value. Even in our specialisation (systems based on D365 and the Power Platform) the technology is advancing faster than ever before so ongoing professional development is crucial to our success. We make time for our entire

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    • Knowing Why Makes the Doing Easier

      Gayan Perera, 15 July 2020

      As a director and CTO of Magnetism I’m always trying to inspire, encourage and motivate people to be a better version of themselves. Until recently, I had been putting inspiration, encouragement and motivation into the same bucket. The result of this mindset was that I could clearly see who was supe

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    • All new Dialog Builder (Alert.js) Supported Code for Dynamics 365

      Paul Nieuwelaar, 13 July 2020

      Alert.js -> Dialog BuilderWe’ve been hard at work recently making some major changes to our Alert.js product. One of the changes we’ve been wanting to make for a while now is in the name, Alert.js. When this product was first created back in 2015, its original use was limited to creating alert/co

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