An OptionSet may not be a Picklist, but a Picklist is always an OptionSet. This is something I had to consider last week to fix an issue within the Dynamics Custom Emails solution and handle State and Status attributes correctly. The issue was caused by an unexpected cast from StatusAttributeMetadata to PicklistAttributeMetadata. Both classes inherits … Continue reading An OptionSet may not be a Picklist
Category: CRM 2016 Update 1
Getting ready for Summit EMEA 2018 Dublin
Time flies and suddenly 2018 will be there, when the next Summit EMEA will take place in Dublin from 24th to the 26th of April. During the Summit EMEA, multiple users groups will participate in the conference and offer several events including presentations, essential peer-to-peer knowledge exchanges, product insight forums, and networking opportunities. My main … Continue reading Getting ready for Summit EMEA 2018 Dublin
Dynamics Custom Emails migrated to Github
Few years ago, I started a project in Codeplex called "Dynamics CRM Custom Emails", which allows you to send emails from a Microsoft Dynamics 365 / CRM process (e.g. workflow, action) based on an Email Template. Additionally, these emails can contain dynamic values for any entity (out-of-the-box or custom) and any type of attribute (e.g. … Continue reading Dynamics Custom Emails migrated to Github
Too many active business process flows
Have you seen that message before on your Microsoft Dynamics CRM organisation? You may have if you have tried to activate more than 10 business processes at the same time for the same entity. This is a limitation by design which is well-known and described on the Microsoft technical documentation, have a look at the following … Continue reading Too many active business process flows
New Dynamics CRM Email Signatures
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2016 Update 1 brings Email Signatures as an out of the box functionality. They can be used on Users or Queues (based on Teams). Create a new email and you will see a new icon on the email designer to insert signatures: To create more signatures, go to Personal Settings or, as an admin, Administration => Templates … Continue reading New Dynamics CRM Email Signatures