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NZBN Integration for Dynamics 365 Add-on, Installation Guide

Paul Nieuwelaar, 15 May 2022

NZBN Integration for Dynamics 365 which allows you to search for real-time data direct form the New Zealand Companies Office and pull directly into Dynamics 365.Please follow the five easy steps below to get the trial underway.1. Download the NZBN Integration solution, and install it into your Dynam
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NZ Post Integration for Dynamics 365 Add-on Installation Guide

Paul Nieuwelaar, 15 May 2022

NZ Post Integration for Dynamics 365 which allows you to search for real-time address data direct from the New Zealand Post and pull directly into Dynamics 365.Please follow the five easy steps below to get the trial underway.1. Download the NZ Post Integration solution, and install it into your Dyn
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Get and Set Dynamics 365 Environment Variables from JavaScript

Paul Nieuwelaar, 14 April 2022

OverviewEnvironments Variables are a useful feature of Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform. They allow us to use values in things like Power Automate which are environment specific, such as API details, which might be different in each environment.When deploying environment variables to another envi
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Dynamics 365 Partial Failures with Excel Online Export/Import

Paul Nieuwelaar, 24 January 2022

In Dynamics 365 Online, a common and useful way to bulk update lots of records at once is to use Open in Excel Online. This allows us to quickly modify bulk records using an Excel interface, which is also very useful when moving bulk data from one field to another. We can then Save immediately which
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Setting up an Application User in Dynamics 365

Paul Nieuwelaar, 21 September 2021

In this article we’ll walk through all the necessary steps involved in setting up a new Application User in Dynamics 365, including creating a new Azure App Registration to use with the App User.Setting up the Azure App RegistrationStep 1:Create an App registration in Azure, under Azure Active Direc
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Install Custom PCF Controls in Dynamics 365 9.1 On-Premises

Paul Nieuwelaar, 01 July 2021

Until now, custom PCF controls have only been available for Dynamics 365 Online. If you tried to install a PCF control in a version 9.0 on-premise environment, you would receive an error stating ‘This action is not supported’. With the release of 9.1 for on-premises, and with a little bit of magic,
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Get Replies to Teams Thread in Power Automate with Graph API

Paul Nieuwelaar, 19 May 2021

The Microsoft Teams connector for Power Automate is a bit limited when it comes to messages and replies. With the built in Teams connector, we can only get ALL messages in a channel, using the “Get messages (preview)” action. If we want to get just the replies to a specific Teams message, we can use
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Create Power Automate Cloud Flow Programmatically in MS Dataverse

Paul Nieuwelaar, 20 April 2021

When you create a new Power Automate Cloud Flow from within a Dataverse Solution, behind the scenes this Flow is being stored as a new row in the Process table for your Dataverse environment. If you’ve been using Dynamics 365 for a while, you’ll know this Process table is used for various types of p
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Convert Dynamics 365 Deprecated Dialog Processes to Cloud Flows

Paul Nieuwelaar, 23 February 2021

Dialog Processes in Dynamics 365 have been deprecated for a while now, but until recently they’ve still ‘worked’ with seemingly no issues. The ability to ‘run’ dialog processes has also been removed from the user interface since the introduction of the UCI, however they could still be used if you ma
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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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Search by default with lookupObjects JavaScript in Dynamics 365

Paul Nieuwelaar, 22 September 2020

Microsoft have made some great improvements to the lookupObjects function for the Unified Interface, including the support for the searchText parameter. This used to work in the old interface, but was never officially documented, and wasn’t working in the Unified Interface up until the 2020 Wave 1 r
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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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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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Expand/Collapse all Actions for Microsoft Power Automate Flow

Paul Nieuwelaar, 27 May 2020

One thing I’ve been secretly wanting added to Flow (Power Automate) for a while now is the ability to expand all actions/steps within the editor. Recently I had to go through and update a bunch of references from one value to another across a few different Flows, and since the “collapsed” actions ar
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Dynamics 365 PCF Control using OptionSet/TwoOption Input Property

Paul Nieuwelaar, 09 June 2020

When creating a PCF control for Dynamics 365, we have several types of properties that we can add to our control as input parameters. These can be bound to a field in Dynamics 365 or configured as just a static input which is configured at the control level.In scenarios where you want to provide som
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