Connection reference (preview) is a great new addition to the Power Platform. We all know the horror stories of the Power Automate Flow's deployment between environments. The way how the flows connections are broken after the deployment and need to edit the flow one by one in order to get it fix. What is the … Continue reading Connection reference Power Automate ALM saviour
Category: Dynamics 365
Visual Studio Extension for Power Platform
Finally Microsoft think it is time to deliver Visual Studio Extension for Power Platform. Previously we got various community member contribution to facilitate the need. This new extension is not far different than those one's but one interesting thing to note is it is still a preview version, there are room for more features and … Continue reading Visual Studio Extension for Power Platform
Ribbon changes and Managed solution in PowerApp
Recently our team has faced with a weird issue, as in there is a custom ribbon change that is implemented in the model drive app. The changes is working perfectly in the development environment. The problem arises when we try to move the change as part of Managed Solution in to the target environment. The … Continue reading Ribbon changes and Managed solution in PowerApp
Azure AD group team in Dataverse
Teams based security structure in quite common. There are many times I wonder can't we able to automate the role assignment in Dataverse when the user is added to the AD Groups in Azure AD. Here is the answer for that auto sync of access from Azure AD Group to Dataverse. Traditionally we know Dataverse … Continue reading Azure AD group team in Dataverse
Making SharePoint site URL/folder path dynamic in Power Automate connector (D365/SharePoint Integration)
There are situation when you need to go dynamic with the parameters, and with multiple instances to deploy making the power automate flow connectors to be dynamics is a challenge. Setting the SharePoint URL and folder path parameters in SharePoint connector is one example to make it dynamic. If we hardcode those parameters in the … Continue reading Making SharePoint site URL/folder path dynamic in Power Automate connector (D365/SharePoint Integration)
Dependent assemblies for plug-ins (2021 release wave 1 plan)
One of the developers biggest nightmare while coding for the sandbox plugin in Online deployment is adding third party dependencies. Currently in order to comply, we need to use the ILMerge to merge those dependencies along with the main assembly. This also have complication when it comes to the size of the assembly once it … Continue reading Dependent assemblies for plug-ins (2021 release wave 1 plan)
Retrieving Environment Variable Values Using JavaScript: Simplifying Dynamics 365 Configuration
As applications grow in complexity, managing and maintaining Dynamics 365 environments becomes increasingly challenging. With multiple teams working on different aspects of the system, ensuring the correct values are used in the appropriate places can be a daunting task. To address this challenge, the utilization of environment variables proves beneficial. Environment variables are a powerful … Continue reading Retrieving Environment Variable Values Using JavaScript: Simplifying Dynamics 365 Configuration
Dynamics 365 hide the field that is used to sort a view
Sorting Dynamics 365 views, you can only sort the field that is selected in the column for the view. You can't able to select a field for sorting which is not part of the selected attribute to be viewed. But there are occasions where you still need to sort but don't need to show the … Continue reading Dynamics 365 hide the field that is used to sort a view
SSRS working with multiple datasets in same table control
Dataset as the name implies it is set of data that are result of the query that is set in the query area of the dataset configuration. In certain times we can't able to resist creating multiple datasets in a single report. Once such case is using D365 FetchXML datasets, the limitation causes the reason … Continue reading SSRS working with multiple datasets in same table control
SSRS convert UTC datetime value to local datetime
For any Dynamics 365 developer, at one point in time they might encounter issues with the datetime fields in CRM. The challenge always comes when we working on backend, because there is always a confusion in the mind whether the date time value is UTC or local time. When working in reports, fetch-xml dataset have … Continue reading SSRS convert UTC datetime value to local datetime










