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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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    • Dynamics 365 XrmTooling Connect with User Credentials in C#

      Paul Nieuwelaar, 04 June 2020

      In a previous blog post, I talked about how to connect to the Dynamics 365 SDK with the new XrmTooling nuget package, and stepped through the best way to connect using an Azure App Registration with Client ID and Secret.In this blog post I’m going to explore a couple of other ways to connect, if you

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    • Dynamics 365 XrmTooling Connect with Azure App Registration in C#

      Paul Nieuwelaar, 24 April 2020

      In this blog post, I’m going to explain how to connect to Dynamics 365 Online from a C# Console App, Azure Function, or any other external application. I’ll be showing how to connect using an Azure App registration. This approach uses a Client ID and Client Secret, in addition to Server URL, instead

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    • New Fully Customizable Dialogs in Dynamics 365 with Alert.js 3.0

      Paul Nieuwelaar, 14 March 2018

      Alert.js version 3.0 is going to be available very soon, and with it comes a bunch of cool new features, most anticipated of all is the new ‘showPrompt’ function which enables you to create fully customizable prompts, similar to what dialog processes provide in Dynamics 365. Microsoft recently depre

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    • Enabling the New Dynamics 365 Online Unified Interface by Default

      Paul Nieuwelaar, 04 April 2019

      In Dynamics 365 Online, you can now set the Unified Interface client as the default and only mode for users. In other words, you can completely disable the old classic UI, and force users onto the new UCI. Previously this was not possible, so when users tried to access the default URL, e.g. https:/

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    • Filter N:N Add Existing Lookup Dynamics 365 V9 Supported Code

      Paul Nieuwelaar, 17 May 2018

      Historically filtering the N:N Add Existing lookup has not been something that we could do in a supported way. It’s been possible to do this using unsupported JavaScript, which originated back in CRM 4.0, and has needed to be rewritten for CRM 2011, CRM 2011 UR12, CRM 2013, and CRM 2016 because of C

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    • How to Globally Define Error Reporting Preferences in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2016

      Paul Nieuwelaar, 14 November 2017

      In the past I’ve talked about how easy it is to prevent these types of errors in Microsoft Dynamics CRM by turning them off at a system level, rather than leaving individual users to do it. Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013, and Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015In Dynamics CRM 2013 and 2015, when you go to Set

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    • How to Fix Duplicate Detection Dialog Showing No Records in Microsoft Dynamics 365

      Paul Nieuwelaar, 13 November 2017

      Recently we had an issue in Microsoft Dynamics 365 where the “Duplicates Detected” dialog was popping up on create of a contact, indicating that one of the duplicate detection rules found a match, but instead of being able to review the potential duplicate records, it was showing “None”. After revie

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    • Bookmarklet for Creating a Record with Specific GUID in Dynamics 365

      Paul Nieuwelaar, 10 November 2017

      When we’re creating Dynamics 365 solutions, we often need to create “reference” entities which we use with lookup fields to give us more flexibility than basic option set fields. For example, having a lookup for Country on accounts. When populating the lookup values for these entities, the system as

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