Members Count field not getting updated on converting Dynamic Marketing List to Static Marketing List – issue in Dynamics 365 July 2017 Update


While trying out few things in July 2017 update of Dynamics 365, we encountered a strange issue.

The members count field was properly in case of Static Marketing List, however, while converting the Dynamic Marketing List to Static (using Copy To Static), this field was not getting populated.

And also, the field was getting unlocked in case of Update Form for both Static and Dynamic Marketing list, unlike earlier version where this field was always locked on Form.

The field properly calculating count and locked in case of earlier versions.

Hope it helps..

“Does not contain data” filter in Advanced Find in Dynamics 365 July 2017 Update


With July 2017 Update in Dynamics 365, Advanced Find view now supports Does Not Contain Data filter for related record.

So basically, we can now write a query like “Find all the lead records which doesn’t contain any related task”. However, we cannot define any filter conditions for the related record though.

The other interesting thing that we observed that in the case of N – N relationships it throws exception.

For e.g. if we want to find all the contacts that are not associated to marketing list

We get the following exception à

Also,

The does not contain data filter isn’t available while defining marketing list members in marketing list.

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Fixed – Incorrect attribute value type System.String in Dynamics 365 (CRM)


We were getting the below error while creating an entity record through a C# Console Application.

This occurred because the code was trying to set string value to one of the decimal type field.

Parsing the string value to decimal and then setting it fixed it.

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MultiSelect Option Set in Dynamics 365


Also read – Limitations

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

With July 2017 update, we can now finally create multi-select option set in Dynamics 365.

We can also use Existing Global Option Set while defining our Multi Select Option set.

This is how control looks within the form.

Within Advanced Find View

We can use the existing option set client-side methods on Multi Select Option Set.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg334409.aspx#Anchor_1

getSelectedOption() – for new_weekday multiselect option-set with value Thursday and Friday selected –

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New View Designer inside App Designer in Dynamics 365 July Update


The Dynamics 365 July Update new includes a new View Designer.

It includes the drag and drop capabilities for adding columns from Primary or Related Entity.

Filter Criteria, Sorting and Column Properties can be defined in the same designer canvas without having to open a new window for that.

Filter Criteria :

Setting sorting and column properties.

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Specify Web resource dependencies in Dynamics 365 July Update


For JavaScript and HTML Web Resource now we can define dependencies, this makes sure that all the required dependent resources are loaded properly.

For HTML and JavaScript, we can define dependencies on other web resources type like CSS, HTML, JavaScript Libraries, RESX and XML. In case of JavaScript Web Resource we can additionally define dependencies on attributes of a specific entity (selected) as shown below.

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