• How to Embed a Canvas App on a Model-Driven App Form

      Dominic Liu, 16 November 2020

      Canvas Apps enable makers to easily design and create custom layouts and themes using the low-code, WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) Canvas App designer. With embedded Canvas Apps, you can bring the power of Canvas Apps to your Dynamics 365 Model-Driven App forms. Canvas Apps are designed to b

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    • Variables in Microsoft Customer Voice

      Sean Roque, 15 November 2020

      In a previous blog I discussed how we can map what was formerly Microsoft Forms Pro (now Customer Voice) survey responses to a Dynamics 365 record. In this blog, I will go through how we can use the built-in variables in Customer Voice to pre-populate fields and more!In Customer Voice surveys, we ca

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    • Part 2: Requesting Information from Users in Power Virtual Agents

      Harshani Perera, 11 November 2020

      Continuing on from my first blog about Power Virtual Agents, I showed you how to create a bot. In Part 2 of this series, I will show you how to request information from the user using the bot. I will continue to use the bot I created earlier however if you don’t have one, follow my first blog to set

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    • Enhanced Duplicate Detection and Merge in Dynamics 365

      Megha Kainth, 10 November 2020

      Microsoft Dynamics 365 gives us the ability to merge duplicate records that are present in our system. With the new Wave 2 release, duplicate detection and merge capability have been enhanced to help enable organisations to maintain a clean database.This new feature enables users to merge a record b

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    • Dynamics 365 User View Recap

      Roz Millar, 09 November 2020

      I recently was asked “What should we do with records owned by someone leaving the team?” If the records can’t be re-assigned to the person taking over the leaving team member’s role, there is the option to have them owned by the team until they can be reassigned. But to do this don’t forget:1. The t

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    • Creating/Replacing Marketing Lists in Dynamics 365 from Power BI

      Colin Maitland, 08 November 2020

      In this article, I will introduce a demonstration of a custom Power Apps Canvas App, named ‘Marketing List App’, that is used to create new or replace existing static Marketing Lists in Dynamics 365 populated with a list of Supporters selected in a Power BI report.It is possible to create and update

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    • New features coming for Microsoft Teams - including breakout rooms.

      Ryan Ingram, 05 November 2020

      Microsoft recently released some much-anticipated features for Microsoft Teams on the back of the COVID 19 usage explosion that has characterised 2020. Organisations found themselves needing to push their communication channels and way of working onto the cloud and it almost forced some decisions th

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    • Dynamics 365 God Mode 2.0 for Unified Interface 2020 Wave 2

      Paul Nieuwelaar, 04 November 2020

      The God Mode bookmarklet I unleashed on the world back in 2014 has been one of the most useful Dynamics 365 bookmarklets to date. Over the years there’s been a few minor updates to keep it working with the latest releases of Dynamics 365 (since a lot of what it was doing was unsupported).However, wi

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    • Rising to the occasion or sinking?

      Gayan Perera, 03 November 2020

      In professions such as aviation, construction, engineering and medicine where people are constantly under pressure from the expectation to perform there is a saying “You don’t rise to the occasion; you sink to the level of your training!” For some reason, the IT industry overlooks the importance of

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    • Migrating SLAs to the Unified Interface in Dynamics 365

      Isaac Stephens, 02 November 2020

      Now that the Web Client SLAs are officially deprecated, we need to start moving over to the Unified Interface SLAs. You have been able to create SLAs in the Unified Interface for a while now but if you wanted to move your existing ones you had to recreate them. However, now Microsoft has a tool that

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    • SQL Timeout when Deleting Audit Partitions in Dynamics 365

      Roshan Mehta, 01 November 2020

      A client of ours with a big Dynamics CRM on-premise database, was recently seeing issues where records were unable to be saved from both the application and through integrations. The error popping up was “Failed to Insert Audit Record”. This was because there was too much auditing, which had been co

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    • Quick Find not showing all results in Dynamics 365

      Calum Jacobs, 22 October 2020

      There’s an interesting issue right now within Dynamics 356 where Quick Find views are not showing the correct number of results, and instead are defaulting to 25. The example below shows that I have searched for “ca” within the Active Accounts view. It should return more than 25 results, but only 25

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    • How to Upload to Azure Blob Storage using SAS Token via Dynamics 365 Plugin

      Adam Murchison, 21 October 2020

      When writing code for Dynamics 365 online plugins, you are limited to assemblies you can use within the sandbox. Luckily you can use the HTTPClient, this allows you to upload a file to an Azure Blob Storage Container without using any of the Azure Blob Storage Nuget Packages found here. This blog wi

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    • Working As One and difficult conversations

      Shalane Williams, 20 October 2020

      Working As One is a core value here at Magnetism. It’s not only about working as one with each other internally so we can effectively deliver a project; it’s also about working in partnership with our clients. I had a great chat with a client yesterday and he mentioned that he sees us as just one te

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    • Command Bar Not Loading in Dynamics 365, Release 2020 Wave 2

      Adam Murchison, 19 October 2020

      When opening a form in Dynamics 365 some users have been experiencing a long load time of the command bar compared to the rest of the form. When debugging this with a non-admin user I noticed that I was experiencing the same large delay on the command bar as other users, compared to the system admin

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