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How to Set the Date Mappings from Facebook Lead Ads to Dynamics 365 using Zapier
Miguel Nepomuceno, 27 September 2017
Zapier is a service that allows for integrations and task automations across multiple web applications. In my previous blog posts, I went over setting up the Facebook Lead Ad Trigger and the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Action in your Zaps. This blog post will go over configuring the Birthdate field mappi
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How to Expand Multi-line Text to Fit Content in Dynamics 365
Dominic Jarvis, 26 September 2017
So I’m sure that you’ve all come across a situation in Microsoft Dynamics 365 before where you’ve created a Multi-line text object on a form, given it lots of space, and then been annoyed when the edit box doesn’t use up the entire space. Once the text length has passed the limits of the allocated
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How to Create Custom Test Execution Reports in Excel from Team Foundation Server - Part 2
Miguel Nepomuceno, 26 September 2017
In my previous blog, I’ve gone over setting up Team Foundation Server (TFS) such that we can use queries. TFS queries allow us to group and filter out work activities in TFS (primarily bugs). By setting up our queries to modularise our data and connecting TFS into Microsoft Excel, we can now extract
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How to Create Custom Test Execution Reports in Excel from Team Foundation Server - Part 1
Miguel Nepomuceno, 25 September 2017
Team Foundation Server (TFS) is a Microsoft product which provides source code management, project management, reporting, release management and testing. TFS has a lot of inbuilt reporting and dashboard services available. By connecting TFS to Microsoft Excel, we can use different functionalities of
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How to Serialize to JSON in Sandboxed Plugin for Dynamics 365
Dominic Jarvis, 25 September 2017
When utilising web services in Microsoft Dynamics 365, you may need to serialize some data to a JSON string. The most convenient way of doing this is to use a .NET library called System.Web, specifically System.Web.Script.Serialization. However, in a sandboxed plugin, access to the System.Web family
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Environment Permission Error on Dynamics 365 Plug-in Execution
Arpit Malhotra, 22 September 2017
Recently I bumped into the below error while executing a custom plug-in in Microsoft Dynamics 365. This plug-in was using a NetworkCredential class to authenticate a SOAP request. On scrutinizing the problem, it was realized that the error was thrown due to the plug-in being registered in the Sandb
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How to Change Icons of Custom Entities in Dynamics 365
Dominic Jarvis, 22 September 2017
Once you’ve created your custom entities in Microsoft Dynamics 365, you’ll probably want to give them custom icons to make them more easily recognisable, and to give the entities a more finished feel. Thankfully, this is very easy to do in Microsoft Dynamics 365. Simply acquire the image that you w
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How to Run Workflow on Business Process Flow Stage Change in Dynamics 365
Dominic Jarvis, 21 September 2017
In Microsoft Dynamics 365 when a stage changes in a Business Process, you may want to run a workflow to automate the fetching of information, an invoicing process, or any other number of things. This is incredibly easy to do with Microsoft Dynamics 365. In the new business process flow designer, si
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How to Register Xamarin.Forms App with Azure Active Directory and Dynamics 365
Dominic Jarvis, 21 September 2017
Registering your app with Azure Active Directory can be incredibly useful for authenticating with services such as Microsoft Dynamics 365. A registered app can request an authentication token with which they can access the Dynamics CRM web API – given they have the correct permissions. The process f
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How to Retrieve Entity Metadata Programmatically in Microsoft Dynamics 365
Dominic Jarvis, 20 September 2017
In this blog I will cover how to retrieve Entity Metadata via the CRM SDK. There are a variety of reasons that you may want to do this in Microsoft Dynamics 365. Recently, I’ve needed to retrieve the display name for an entity while working with a generalised control. The request itself is an Organ
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How to Get and Set a Lookup Field Using JavaScript in Dynamics 365
Adam Murchison, 20 September 2017
When setting a lookup value using JavaScript in Microsoft Dynamics 365, the value you use has to be an array and the values in that array must be of type object. Within the object the required components are the id, logical name and the entity type. Retrieving a lookup field through JavaScript can b
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Tips for Your Xamarin.Forms Dynamics CRM App
Dominic Jarvis, 19 September 2017
Having recently created a custom app that integrates with Dynamics CRM, I came across a few issues that took me a while to resolve. This post I’m sharing some of the workarounds I have for those issues. Async, Async, Async… When working with the mobile SDK, one of the things you’ll find is that alm
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How to Trigger Plugins on Custom Messages using Actions in Dynamics 365
Dominic Jarvis, 18 September 2017
When modifying a Microsoft Dynamics 365 solution, you may require functionality that is portable and can be triggered in multiple circumstances. For example, running a rollup field calculation job, which is able to be done from SDK messages, but otherwise cannot be triggered manually out-of-the-box.
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How to Work with Record Create and Update Rules null(Channel Properties) in Dynamics CRM
Zoe Sands, 18 September 2017
While working with Dynamics CRM’s Record Create and Update Rules we came across this error within a Case creation step: “The specified contact doesn’t belong to the contact that was specified in the customer field. Remove the value from the contact field, or select a contact associated to the select
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How to Create Business Rules in Dynamics 365
Adam Murchison, 15 September 2017
In Microsoft Dynamics 365 the creation process when creating a business rule is significantly different, in a good way! The business rules still use programming logic in a more visual and simplistic manner. Business rules are more than just business logic, they are extremely useful, and can be used
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