Category: Dynamics 365 CE

Exploring custom virtual entity provider data source configuration We were recently working on a custom virtual entity provider. While going through the Microsoft documentation https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/customer-engagement/developer/virtual-entities/custom-ve-data-providers . We noticed that it’s a good…

The introduction of Dynamics 365 CE version 9 brings a lot of new functionalities and changes to the table. One of those smaller changes, I really want to mention is…

Up until now, CRM Portals acted mostly as a self-service customer service for existing clients. It’s traditionally a place where they can follow up on existing orders, tickets, projects and…

If you’ve ever written more complex plugins that retrieve data of linked entities, chances are you’ve come across the AliasedValue object… and had a hard time with it. We’re here…

Microsoft recently introduced Microsoft Forms, which is now in preview. Forms is an easy way to interact with people and capture their feedback. Responses are saved directly as a form…

The dynamics 365 system settings as grown over the last couple of years, by now it contains a lot of settings that can also be useful when customizing or extending…

A lot of developers that are introduced to JavaScript development in Dynamics 365 have the same first, quite negative reaction: They find it a slow process (upload, publish, Ctrl +…

Over the last couple of days, three different people asked me a similar question related to forms stuck while loading. Even though they formulated it differently (or even forgot to mention the…

Today a client requested me to provide an endpoint they could  trigger to create Trial Keys in their CRM from an external website. They pass in a product identifier (Product…

It’s finally there; drag & drop functionalities within Dynamics CRM. For as long as I can remember, clients always wanted to simplify the process of uploading files in CRM. Granted, up…