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Microsoft.Crm.CrmException: Property ‘x’ isn’t declared on the control manifest in Microsoft Dynamics 365

We got this error while trying to save the form which uses the PCF Control.

This was because the name of the property was changed

And the updated solution was imported, while the control on the form was still referring to the old property name.

Fix is straightforward, remove the field using that control with old property name from the form and save the change.

Hope it helps..

PCF Control to show Twitter Likes Timeline

In the same line as Profile Timeline PCF Control, we can use the same concept to create a control that shows likes timeline that displays the recently like tweets of a specific public Twitter Account.

PCF Control to show the Twitter profile timelines

Created a simple PCF Control to show the twitter timelines for the profile. It basically uses embedded tweets.

Get the control here

https://github.com/nishantranacrm/TwitterPCFControl

Simply enter the twitter profile in the text field and it will render the latest tweets of that profile.

Inside an account form à

For the contact record à

Embedded timelines make it extremely easy to embed the Tweets on a web page.

We can navigate to publish.twitter.com to generate the code.

Here I have searched from my profile, which then next gives us the display options to select.

Here we selected the Embedded Timeline display option, which generated the code for us.

The code that we are using inside our PCF Control.

Best resources to start with Power Apps Code Component (PCF)

There are so many outstanding blogs, videos out there for learning PCF, below my favourite resources for someone who is just starting with development of Power Apps custom code components

https://debajmecrm.com/2019/04/26/in-depth-end-end-walkthrough-develop-your-custom-controls-using-power-apps-component-framework-and-use-it-on-your-crm-interface/

https://powermaverick.dev/2019/05/18/create-custom-controls-using-powerapp-component-framework/

https://www.xrmvirtual.com/meeting-details/?id=766fc80b-70cf-e911-a860-000d3a537884

PCF Academy

Thanks Debajit, Danish , Andrew Butenko and Roohi

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/developer/component-framework/community-resources

and after you have developed an awesome component submit it here

https://pcf.gallery/

Thanks to Guido for managing it.

Very simple PCF Control to show Gravatar

The Gravatar or globally recognised avatar is basically an image associated to our email id, which appears besides our comments, blogs posts, sites etc.

https://en.gravatar.com/site/implement/

To request an image of Gravatar, we need to first calculate hash of the email id and pass it to the URL

The format à

https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/{HASH}

e.g.

https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/205e460b479e2e5b48aec07710c08d50

https://en.gravatar.com/site/implement/images/

Using this information, just created a PCF control for single line of text – email type that will show the Gravatar associated to it. It was more from learning perspective than trying to implement a business case or requirement.

This is how the control looks like within the form.

For another email id, it shows the corresponding avatar image.

For cases where there are no gravatar associated it shows the default image

And as we are using it for the email type of text field, the usual validation provided by the platform works seamlessly.

Get the tool here

https://github.com/nishantranacrm/GravatarPCFControl

Hope it helps..

Configure Customer lookup to show either contacts or accounts in Canvas Apps

Debajit's Dynamic CRM Blog

Happy new year to all my blog readers and this is my first blog of 2020. And how about starting with a simple one and that too on canvas apps!

So this was my customer requirement. They were designing a canvas app for their business users which was basically kind of contact management. And while designing the contact edit form, they needed to show a form similar to the below one.

important fields to consider in the above screenshot are “Parent entity” & “Is company contact”.

Parent Entity field is nothing but the Company name (parentcustomerid) field of the contact. “Is Company Contact” is a custom field of type boolean.

In short the requirement was if that if the contact is a company contact, then the Parent entity field should allow users only to select Accounts else it should allow users to select only contacts. We…

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Advanced condition builder in Power Automate (Microsoft Flow)

Was just exploring the advanced condition builder added to the Power Automate (Flow) beginning of the last year.

The new conditional builder makes it very easy to write complex conditional logic compared to using expressions.

We can easily add row (conditions) and group them

The row (condition) can be grouped by either And or Or.

To simplify the view, the group can be collapsed.

The group can be deleted, moved up or down along with ungrouping.

For complex expression, we use the regular Dynamic Content expression builder to enter in the left side of the row as shown below.

Example of its usage – https://nishantrana.me/2020/01/02/using-power-virtual-agent-and-power-automate-flow-to-create-a-simple-bot-for-cases-in-dynamics-365-for-customer-service/

Total 10 conditions can be added after which the option of adding more option gets disabled.

We can add a group as the 10^th row and again add conditions in that row.

Similarly, 10 group as row can be added

Similarly, we can have 5 nested groups

The below post by Benitez Here explains it best, and includes comparison with the workflow designer.

http://benitezhere.blogspot.com/2019/02/flow-condition-builder-how-tos.html

Hope it helps..

Publishing the bot– Power Virtual agent

In the last post, we saw how to create a simple bot, now let us see how we can publish it.

Navigate to the Publish tab in the side navigation pane and click on Publish.

After a successful publish click on the demo website to test the bot

Navigate to Manage à Channels to configure it for various channels.

Below are all the channels that the bot can be configured for.

Demo Website à

We can specify the Welcome Message as well as the Conversation starters

Custom Website à

It can be added as Iframe to the existing web sites.

Within Power Apps Portal, we can add the bot to the Iframe Component as shown below

Power Virtual Agent also comes with analytics to show key performance indicators for different topics.

Get all the details here

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-in/power-virtual-agents/analytics-summary

Helpful posts –

https://readyxrm.blog/2019/11/06/adding-a-power-virtual-agent-to-a-power-apps-portal/

https://joegill.com/powerapps-portal-virtual-agent-bot/

Hope it helps..

Using Power Virtual Agent and Power Automate (Flow) to create a simple bot for Cases in Dynamics 365 for Customer Service

Here we will take a very simple example to see how Power Virtual Agent be used along with Power Automate to interact with Dynamics 365 model-driven App

Basically, the user enters the case number (ticketnumber) in the chatbot to get the current status of the Case.

To begin with,

https://powervirtualagents.microsoft.com/en-us/

Sign in with your work email address.
Name your bot and click on create.

Create a new Topic with Name as Case Topic and Trigger phrases as shown below and save it.

Click on Go
to authoring canvas

Add node Show a message

Next, add new “Ask a question” node, the bot will ask the user to enter the case number

Next, add a node “Call an action” to call the PowerAutomate (Flow)

Let us pause here and first author the Flow which we would be calling from this particular node.

To create the Flow, login to PowerApps portal https://web.powerapps.com/, select the Virtual Agent environment, here we have created a new Solution and created a new Flow inside that solution.