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Using Firefox Multi-Account Containers with Dynamics 365

Jared Johnson, 04 March 2019

One annoyance I often run into is having to be logged into multiple Dynamics 365 systems at the same time or wanting to be logged in as different users into the same system. This tends to result in having half a dozen different browser instances open which can become a mess. This is where the Multi
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Triggering Plugins on Update of Multi-Select Option Set in Dynamics 365

Jared Johnson, 18 February 2019

Dynamics 365 Version 9 added a largely-requested feature: Multi-select Option Set. While they are supported by most of the functionality of Dynamics 365 now, you will find that when you go to register a plugin step with a Multi-select Option Set as one of the Filtering Attributes or add one to a Pre
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Dynamics 365 Portal Generic Failure Message on Creation of Record

Jordan Hohepa, 15 February 2019

Recently one of our clients ran into an issue with the Dynamics 365 Portals create record functionality. After completing and submitting an insert entity form, a generic error was returned, and the record was not created. This blog shows an example of the issue and how to resolve it. The screenshots
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New PowerApps View Editor for CDS Model Driven Apps and Dynamics 365

Jared Johnson, 14 February 2019

With the addition of solutions for Model Driven apps in PowerApps, we are getting replacements for many of the old editors that have barely been updated since CRM 2011 or earlier including the solution editor, form editor and view editor. Funnily enough this is the second time a new view editor has
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Dynamics 365 Running Slow or not Responding after v9 Upgrade

Satyvir Jasra, 13 February 2019

After an upgrade of a Dynamics 365 instance from v8.2 to v9, many users reported an issue where the Dynamics 365 was not loading, or it was loading the pages very slowly. The users were trying to access Dynamics 365 on web client. The solution to this problem was to clear the browser cache of the af
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Steps and Tips on Copying a Production Instance in Dynamics 365

Harshani Perera, 12 February 2019

In Microsoft Dynamics 365, you might need to make a copy of Production for investigating and/or testing purposes. If you log a ticket with Microsoft they may require you to make a copy of Production to a Support instance for them to investigate. This blog will provide the steps on how to make a copy
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Users Not Disabling in Dynamics 365 v9 Online

Satyvir Jasra, 11 February 2019

To disable a user in Dynamics 365 online, we can remove their Dynamics 365 licences on Office Admin Centre. However, we recently had an issue where we removed all the licences for a user that included Dynamics 365 in Product licenses list and yet the user was still enabled in Dynamics 365 instances
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Power BI Desktop Memory Issue Resolution - Part 2

Colin Maitland, 08 February 2019

In part one of this article, I described my experience of a “not enough memory to complete this operation” error I encountered in Power BI desktop. In this part, I will describe the cause and resolution for this issue. The cause of the issue was actually the formula used for generating the Sequentia
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Power BI Desktop Memory Issue Resolution - Part 1

Colin Maitland, 05 February 2019

In this article I will describe a “Failed to save modifications to the server … not enough memory to complete this operation” error I encountered in Power BI desktop and how this issue was resolved. The Power BI Data Model included a Referred Contact dimension table, Referrals fact table and a
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Optimising the Calendar Control for Opportunities

David Mochrie, 25 January 2019

The new(ish) Unified Interface for Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement comes with a whole stack of nice features. One of these is the calendar control. This has of course been around in the tablet and phone clients for a while now, but now we have the Unified Interface, I decided to take a closer look
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Dynamics 365 V9 Editable Grid Column Resizing Feature

Jordan Hohepa, 24 January 2019

In Dynamics 365 v9 both views and subgrids now have the option to become editable. When the option for editable grids has been enabled, the fields of the records can be edited from the view itself, so Users no longer have to enter each record individually. Views can be made editable from the view cu
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Add or Remove Events for Sub-grids in Dynamics 365

Zoe Sands, 23 January 2019

In Dynamics 365, you can add or remove onload events from a sub-grid by referencing functions by name. The two examples below show how this is done. Xrm.Page.getControl("mag_mygrid").addOnLoad(myMethod); Xrm.Page.getControl("mag_mygrid").removeOnLoad(myMethod) Because the addOnLoad and removeOnLoad
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Custom Entities in Business Process Flows for Model-Driven Apps

Isaac Stephens, 21 January 2019

The Issue: You may have noticed when creating Business Process Flows (BPF) in PowerApps from your own Entities that they don’t always show up in the dropdown box in the ‘create new’ wizard. This is because by default you are not able to create BPF’s from a custom Entity, you must first enable it you
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Making Changes to Record Create and Update Rules in Dynamics 365

Zoe Sands, 15 January 2019

A while back we had a client who decided to utilize Record Create and Update Rules (RCUR) in their CRM solution. This required us to make them approximately 30 RCURs, one for each queue they had in the system. Recently we have had some changes to make, rather than deploying the old solution with all
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A Brief Introduction to the Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365 Admin Centers

Harshani Perera, 10 January 2019

This blog will give you a brief introduction to the Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365 Admin Centers and some of their features. In order to access the Admin Center, you will require admin permissions. There are several admin roles which allow access to the Admin Center e.g. Global Admin, Dynamics 365 S
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