Category: Microsoft Dynamics 365

D365: Enable Rule for button with asynchronous API request using promise

Ajit Patra

Many times, we get requirement to show/hide a button based on certain condition for which we define Enable Rule in Ribbon Workbench.

If we need javaScript code for evaluation then we use Custom Enable Rule mentioning library, method to execute, passing PrimaryControl CRM parameter and additional parameters if necessary.

Sometimes, the evaluation is done real time(based on the logic written) and we return true/false based on which the button remains visible/hidden. At times, we need to make additional API request which is asynchronous in nature e.g. show/hide button based on security role and in this case the result of the method/operation doesn’t affect the visibility of the button.

In this post, we’ll see how we can use promise to fix this issue and the scenario that we’ll take is hide Delete button on Document subgrid if the logged in user doesn’t have “System Administrator” security role.

Since…

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Knowledge management enhancements in Dynamics 365 For Customer Service – 2019 Release Wave 2

This release adds a new feature called Knowledge Article Template, using which users can quickly create an article by referring the Article Template, which helps in maintaining consistency and can also create their own article template.

To create an Article Template, navigate to Service Management area and select Article Template

Below is how the Article Template looks like

To use it, navigate to Knowledge Articles and click New From Template button

Select the template created earlier

We can see the contents populated from the template

Although the Microsoft document talks about copy and pasting, drag and drop of images from local folder directly to the editor and resizing of the images. It seems that this feature is yet to be added.

Inline Image Editing and Drag and Drop

Knowledge search enhancements

  • Improved density to show more articles.
  • Better filtering options.

Hope it helps..

{Know How} Apply Business process flow on create of a record or skip setting of default Process flow based on custom business logic in Dynamics 365 using ProcessId field of record

Debajit's Dynamic CRM Blog

Business Process flows are used everywhere and as a Power platform consultant you might be working with them almost everyday.

However sometimes the intricacies of the most mundane stuffs seems to baffle us. And one of them is was this requirement that I recently had. And trust me I found many was not aware of the solution.

So the customer here wanted to apply Business process flow to a record based on some business logic. Let’s understand the full requirement first before I go ahead with the solution.

So the customer have field on Account entity. Let’s say field name is “BPF Indicator”. It’s an option set field. And let’s assume there are three values for this field.

  1. Value 1
  2. Value 2
  3. Value 3

There are three BPF’s for Account. So basically the logic goes like this.

  1. If account is created with Value 1, then BPF 1 should be applied

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PackageDeployerWrapper: Import operation time out exception while trying to create a new organization in Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement (On-Premise)

Recently for one our projects,

where had Dynamics CRM On-Premise already installed by the IT team quite sometime back, when we tried create a new organization through Deployment Manager, we got the below error

“Create new Organization (Name=46d256f4-1009-ea11-a2df-00505680070e, Id=FABUAECIBSIT) failed with Exception: System.Exception: Error.ActionFailed Microsoft.Crm.Tools.Admin.InstallPlatformSolutionsAction —> Microsoft.Crm.PackageDeployment.PackageDeployerException: Package BaseCustomControlsCore failed to install on attempt 1. System.AggregateException: One or more errors occurred. —> Microsoft.Crm.MultiTenantPackageDeployment.PackageDeployerException: PackageDeployerWrapper: Import operation timed out. at Microsoft.Crm.MultiTenantPackageDeployment.PdExecutor.Process(PackageDeploymentInputArgs input, JobOutput`1 output, CancellationToken ct) at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.Execute()

— End of inner exception stack trace —

—> (Inner Exception #0) Microsoft.Crm.MultiTenantPackageDeployment.PackageDeployerException: PackageDeployerWrapper: Import operation timed out. at Microsoft.Crm.MultiTenantPackageDeployment.PdExecutor.Process(PackageDeploymentInputArgs input, JobOutput`1 output, CancellationToken ct) at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.Execute()<-”

After trying out all the different permutations and combinations (network things, cleaning and setting up the infra etc.), the way it got resolved was by installing the latest cumulative update.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-ae/help/3142345/microsoft-dynamics-365-onpremise-cumulative-updates

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4521749/service-update-0-10-for-microsoft-dynamics-365-9-0

The reason we applied and went for the cumulative updates options as the last one, because, we had our production in the older version and because of multiple constraints we were not planning to upgrade our production server.

Fortunately, the solution from version 9.0.10.10 got imported successfully in production Dynamics CRM organization that were in version 9.0.2.x.

Hope it helps..

Lookup Filter, Error Notifications, Territory entity enhancements in Dynamics 365 for Sales / Customer Service – 2019 Release Wave 2 (Unified Interface)

Let us look at some other enhancements added as part of 2019 Release Wave 2 in the product.

Lookup filter enhancement

The lookup filter on searching for a specific term will show the different types of record (entity) that are there in the results for filtering. T

This allows the user to easily find the record.


Here on selecting Contact, it will display only the contact records matching the search criteria.


Similarly, Regarding field lookup in Activity à

Will allow filtering based on the type of records found matching the criteria.

Navigate to error in the form from the navigation bar

The navigation bar shows the errors in the form

Click on the error and it will take us to that particular field without us to figure out the field in the form.

  • Hierarchical relationship support on the Territory Entity

Territory entity now supports Hierarchy.

Hope it helps..

Timeline and Grid control enhancement in Dynamics 365 Customer Service – 2019 Release wave 2 (Unified Interface)

Below are few enhancements made to timeline and grid control as part of 2019 Release wave 2.

The new timer control shows more customer interactions/records/activities compared to the older version of the control, thus enabling users to have access to much more information without the need for scrolling.

The user can hover over the activity to find the menu options

The filter option next to the + button allows users to easily filter and find the appropriate records.

Similarly, grids are more compact allowing more data to be seen.

Also, the main grid now remember it’s state

Here we have searched with the keyword “Geo”

Open one of the records in the result

Click on the back button in the browser, the result is still saved

Grid now has improved filtering as well, as shown below à

Hope it helps..

Scan business cards in Dynamics 365 for Sales – 2019 Release Wave 2 (Unified Interface)

The scan business card feature added as part of release wave 2, allows salespeople to quickly scan business cards using the Quick Create Form. The scanner reads the information from the card and populates the corresponding mapped fields in the record.

Out of the box, it is available in quick create form of lead and contact entity.

To specify the mapping for the business card control fields, navigate to Settings – Customizations and open the Quick Create form and select the Business Card Control and go to the Controls tab for its properties.

Click on the edit icon for the field and specify the mapping.

To enable for entities other than lead and contact, open the quick create form of that entity for customization and select either single or multiple lines of text field as a placeholder and add the business card control to it.

Followed by appropriate mapping of properties to the fields of that entity.

To see it in action let us create a new lead record using it’s quick create form. On click on the Scan Business Card button and selecting an image we get the values populated on the form.

Make sure to enable the free trial of AI Builder.

We can see the business card attached/saved with the record.

This behaviour can be configured.

Navigate to Sales Tab of System Settings

Few points to consider here

  • This feature is only available in North America and the EMEA region for now.
  • The mapping of address fields is not supported currently.
  • The users need to have a Common Data Service User role to use the control.

Hope it helps..

Open webresources Modal or Inline using Xrm.Naviagtion.naviagteTo in Dynamics 365 Unified interface

Debajit's Dynamic CRM Blog

Release wave 2 have released some wonderful features and one of them is the capability to open a webresource as modal or inline. I bet this is going to ease the life of lot of consultants who were traditionally using Xrm.Navigation.openWebResource or Xrm.Utility.openWebResource (deprecated) to open webresource and hear about the perennial client complaint of why it is not modal.

Introducing to you, the newest star on the rise – Xrm.Navigation.navigateTo

So let’s see how we can open the webresource as modal. Detailed documentation can be found here – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/developer/model-driven-apps/clientapi/reference/xrm-navigation/navigateto

Sample code below.

var qs = "param1=1&param2=2"; var pageInput = {     pageType: "webresource",     webresourceName: "trng_/pages/newapitest.html",     data: encodeURIComponent(qs) }; var navigationOptions = {     target: 2, // 2 is for opening the page as a dialog.     width: 400, // default is px. can be specified in % as well.     height: 300, // default is px. can…

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Migration of multi-select option sets in Dynamics 365 – SSIS (KingswaySoft)

Let us take a very simple example to understand how to migrate the multi-select option set in Dynamics 365.

Few points to consider before we use Multi-select option set

https://nishantrana.me/2018/04/27/limitations-of-multi-select-option-sets-in-dynamics-365-ce/

Here we will take excel as our source.

Create a new SSIS package, add the Excel Source component and Dynamics CRM Destination component in the Data Flow.

https://www.kingswaysoft.com/products/ssis-productivity-pack

https://www.kingswaysoft.com/products/ssis-integration-toolkit-for-microsoft-dynamics-365

Specify the source file path.

Here Favourite Color column will be mapped to multi-select option set field

Source excel file

The field in CRM

Within the Dynamics CRM Destination, specify the mapping. As the field is of nvarchar type in CRM we need to make sure that we are passing multiple values to it separated by a semicolon.

The way we map the normal option-set field is quite different than the multi-select

https://nishantrana.me/2018/09/20/easily-map-optionset-using-crm-optionset-mapping-editor-in-ssis/

Let us run the package.

After successful execution, we can the records created with the options specified.

Now let us take another scenario, where we have text or label specified instead of values in the source

On successful execution

We can see the records created.

Thus, we can specify either values or labels separated by a semicolon (if multiple) for migration to work seamlessly with the multi-select option set.

We need to make sure there are no spaces after the semicolon else we would get the exception

Error message

To get started with SSIS with Dynamics 365

https://nishantrana.me/2018/11/26/ssis-and-microsoft-dynamics-365/

Hope it helps..

High Density Headers in Dynamics 365 – 2019 Release Wave 2 (Unified Interface)

New high-density headers have been introduced for Dynamics 365 Entity Forms as part of 2019 Release Wave 2 for Unified Interface.

Let us try to understand various settings available for it

Log in to

https://make.powerapps.com/

select the environment, and select Data à Entities à Forms

Click on Edit Header Density to open the properties section for the Header. This setting is only available in the new form model app form designer.

Let us first uncheck High density option and see how it renders in the Contact Main Form.

Result:

  • The first 3 fields appear on the form within the Header section and the remaining 6 fields appear in the flyout section of the header.
  • The editable fields are rendered as editable and read-only fields as read-only.

On resizing the browser, the fields in the header are rendered in the Summary tab.

Now let us check with only High-density option enabled

Result:

Only the first 4 fields appear, there is no fly out section and all the fields are read only.

On resizing the browser, the fields in the header are rendered properly.

Now let us check with both the options enabled

Result:

The 4 fields appearing in the form are still read-only.

However, we can see all the fields being available in the flyout section both editable as well as read-only.

On resizing the browser, the fields in the header are rendered properly

Along with the flyout section

Thus, based on the total number of fields and types of fields i.e. read-only or editable, we can select the appropriate options of rendering for the Header in the new Unified Interface.

Meanwhile, the headers in our legacy web client

Legacy_001

Hope it helps..