It Ain't Boring | Exploring Dynamics 365

1. AI adoption – why would anyone think it’s not going to cost us at least some jobs?

   I was trying to imagine how would “AI” adoption go, and, it seems, there is only one possible outcome in the long term. “AI” is there to either compliment human workers or to replace them, but, ultimately, it’s there to increase productivity in those areas where it can be adopted. In a very limited number… Read More »

2. When we say “unsupported” about a certain customization, what do we actually mean?

   It seems I’ve been experiencing strange consequences of giving up on my MVP renewal, which is that I now don’t need to worry about sticking to some (real or imaginary) rules, I don’t even need to write anything here, but, somehow, that together just unlocks some of the topics I probably did not dare to… Read More »

3. Tired of having Business Process Errors? Try your own titles

   It’s been there forever – you raise an error from the plugin, and you get Business Process Error popup in the UI. That’s all good except that not everyone likes that kind of popup title: So how about making it a different title? There is no supported way of doing this, but, well, lately I’ve… Read More »

4. Form OnLoad vs OnDataLoad

   There are two different onLoad events in the client-side XRM framework, and I did not know that… Well, it’s better to find it out late than never 😊 https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-apps/developer/model-driven-apps/clientapi/reference/executioncontext/geteventsource Here is how it works: Actually, I used to think OnLoad does what OnDataLoad do. Maybe it used to do it? Not sure. Either way, when… Read More »

5. Not all statuses are equal with formContext.data.process.setStatus

   Turns out we can’t use process.setStatus freely to finish a business process at any time – it has to be in the final stage. Otherwise, we can only abort a process. Come to think of it, it is neither too obvious, nor too counter-intuitive. Either way, the code below works, it seems: formContext.data.process.setStatus(“finished”, result =>… Read More »

6. Bulk-updating primary owner of multiple cloud flows

   Changing primary owner of your flows in the maker portal is simple – just go there, choose a flow, click “Edit” in the details section, then change the primary owner. This usually makes sense when setting up an application account as a flow owner, since that protects us from unexpected failures if the user-owner leaves… Read More »

7. Not applying for my MVP renewal, but why?

   I think I have finally made piece with the decision not to apply for my MVP renewal, but it’s still worth a bit of an explanation. It won’t be long, though. First of all, when Andrey Butenko asked if I’d be interested in being considered for an MVP award back in 2017, I thought “wow,… Read More »

8. Macro Templates solution: deployment

   This post is part of a series of posts. Please use the links below to navigate through the related posts: To deploy the solution, follow these steps (loosely): Finally, to test it out, create a record in the Template Demo table and use “New Document” button to test it all out:

9. Macro Templates solution: Dataverse tables

   This post is part of a series of posts. Please use the links below to navigate through the related posts: In the Macro Templates demo solution, there are only 3 tables: Technically, only two of those are needed for the templates (“Document Teamplate” and “Template Download”), the only reason there is yet another one (“Template… Read More »

10. Macro Templates solution: can’t do it without a javascript web resource

    This post is part of a series of posts. Please use the links below to navigate through the related posts: I’ve already mentioned the javascript when explaining how custom page dialog works, so you might want to re-read that part quickly, there are just a few more things to mention. Here is how file download… Read More »