Nishant Rana

Update/Upsert operation is not supported in non-transaction mode error in Dynamics 365 for Sales Connector of Informatica Cloud

Few weeks back while working on a migration project in which we were using Informatica Cloud’s Dynamics 365 for Sales connector, we used to get the below error while trying to perform the Upsert operation in Batch.

“In CRM WRITER_1_*_1> CCI_WRITER_1000 [ERROR] Update/Upsert operation is not supported in non-transaction mode. “

For this we had raised a support ticket with Informatica. The response we got was that this feature will be available in the new IICS Platform.

So recently we migrated to IICS from ICS and were glad to see this feature available i.e. “performing Upsert operation in Batch“.

Few other enhancements in the connector includes

Get all the details here

https://kb.informatica.com/proddocs/Product%20Documentation/6/CDI_Spring2018_ConnectorReleaseNotes_en.pdf

Hope it helps..

How we try to speed up IT projects and why it doesn’t work

I had to reblog this !

Hosk's Dynamic Blog

Code not in production has no value and you don’t know if it will work, get it live in the shortest time possible #HoskCodeWisdom

How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time. Fred Brooks

Code not being used by users is worth nothing, you to get a return on investment of creating the code only when it is being used in production by users.

People get lost in the fog of a project and forget its purpose is to create software which helps a business achieves its goals and do the activities which makes the business money.

The goal of IT projects is to create software to help a company deliver its business goals. To help the employees finish tasks and the company to be profitable.

No one cares about technology, employees want to keep their job and the business to be profitable. Technology is…

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“Cannot update a published workflow definition” exception in Dynamics 365

We would get this exception if we try updating an Activated Workflow using Update Request.

So basically, if we need to update the activated\published workflow i.e. Activate or Deactivate it or change the Owner of the workflow, we would need to use the SetState and Assign Request. If we try doing it using the UpdateRequest we will the above error message.

Perform specialized operations using Update

Also, we noticed that if we try changing the state from Deactivated to Activated through Update Request, it will not change the State to Activated and it will not throw an exception as well.

However, if we use Update to Change the Owner for the deactivated workflow, it works fine.

Hope it helps..

Thirty two “Microsoft’s Very Passionate” professionals thanked with giant “WALL-OF-LOVE” at Microsoft Summit!!

Happy to see my pic there. Thanks to Peter Laker and Microsoft’s Face API .

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/thirty-two-microsofts-very-passionate-professionals-thanked-laker/

(one more reason to smile often 🙂 )

Sharepoint Metadata Manager and Attachment Extractor–New version released!

Newer version of the tool”SharePoint Metadata Manager and Attachment Extractor” – the best tool for managing SharePoint Document(s) within Dynamics 365 by Debajit (MVP)

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We are delighted to announce the release of the next version of our tool – Sharepoint Attachment Extractor and Metadata Manager. For readers who are new to this tool, this tool enables you to upload documents to Sharepoint with multiple metadata as well as host of other features like

Allows you to create and edit Metadata related to files from CRM. This version allows up to five metadata fields per entity and also provides the option to restrict the metadata values to a specific set of values or free text.
Dynamic adding and removal of the SharePoint section on the form of an entity just through configuration page that comes with the tool. Also you can place the SharePoint section on multiple forms for the entity.
Upload up to five files at one go along with the option to enter metadata for each file. Also size limit of file not…

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Managing User’s Field level security profiles and Exporting the user’s Security report to CSV – New features added in User Security Manager – XrmToolBox Plugin

Last week we released the first version of the User Security Manager, you can read about its features here.

https://nishantrana.me/2018/07/16/user-security-manager-my-first-xrmtoolbox-plugin/

With the newer version, we have added the following features to it

Managing User’s Field Level Security

Apart from managing the Teams and the Security Roles for the user, now the tool allows us to manage the field level security profile of the user.

We can see all the Field Security Profile assigned to the user in the “Assigned” multi-select box.
The “Available” multi-select box lists all the Field Security Profile available in that instance.
The “All Assigned Field Level Security (Direct and Team)” list box lists down all the Field Level Security profile user is part of either directly or through the team.

Clicking on “>>” button, we can remove the user from the selected Field Security Profile that he is part of.

Clicking on the button labelled “<<“, adds a user to the selected Field Security Profile.

To remove all the Field Level Security profiles, we can click on “Remove All FSP” button.

User Security Report

User Security Report allows us to generate reports for security roles and field security profile assigned to the user directly or through team for all the system users or the selected system users.

To navigate to User Security Report section, click on ‘User Security Report‘ button.

To generate the report for all the users, click on Generate Report button without applying Report Filter or Selecting User.

The generated report: –

Using the tool, we can generate 3 types of reports –

User Role – Security Role directly assigned to the user.
User Team – Security Role assigned through the team.
User Profile – Field Security Profile assigned either directly or through the team.

To download or export the generated report in CSV, click on Generate Report button. Based on the report type selected, the report will be exported to the corresponding CSV files.