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This article describes a new security feature now available in the Resco Mobile solution that allows certificates validation. This is an important consideration when you are dealing with mobile devices. During the last months, we have been working with the Resco.net solution integrated with Dynamics 365 and it has been a great experience. It is definitely a … Continue reading Resco Mobile Certificate Pinning validation
This article describes how to simulate a long operation in Dynamics 365 (CRM) using a simple custom plugin that introduces a delay using the Thread.Sleep function. Background: recently we have been investigating an issue regarding some timeouts happening in a third party application which connects to our Dynamics 365 service. At the moment, it is difficult to tell … Continue reading Simulate long operations in Dynamics 365 (CRM)
Some great news this week, the new Dynamics 365 (CRM) version 9.0 is already available for trial. The build version I've got with my UK trial ([orgname].crm11.dynamics.com) is 9.0.0.11.03. You can now enjoy some of the new features that I show below: New design: New Unified Interface Apps Flow Integration Multi Select Option Set attribute New Solutions … Continue reading Dynamics 365 v9.0 is already available
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
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
This year I’ll be presenting at the CRMUG Summit EMEA 2017 celebrated in Amsterdam. The idea started last year when I was speaking with my Microsoft AX MVP colleague Antonio @_Gilabert_ at the MVP Summit. With Dynamics 365, CRM and AX are closer than ever, so we thought that it would be great to have … Continue reading Presenting at CRMUG Summit EMEA. Amsterdam 2017
Creating scheduled workflows has always been a challenge in Dynamics CRM 365. The community and ISVs have offered several original options, but there is not yet an official out-of-the-box option. This article brings another alternative to the table using Microsoft Flows. A scheduled workflow is the one that runs at a certain arranged time and … Continue reading Dynamics 365 (CRM) Scheduled Workflows using Microsoft Flow
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
Using any version of Dynamics CRM, have you ever tried to find all processes that contain A certain Step in some Business Process Flow A Custom Workflow Activity that you have developed and you try to reuse in several Workflows A Dialog that contains some particular question An Action with an specific parameter If so, probably you … Continue reading [Dynamics CRM] Find processes by content
CRM SDK is now also available from the Visual Studio extension NuGet. This extension is a provider of third party packages where anyone can participate and publish their own ones. This makes very easy to add third party assembly references. Install NuGet in Visual Studio from "Tools => Extensions and Updates" Once NuGet is installed, … Continue reading Microsoft publishes CRM SDK in NuGet (Visual Studio)
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