Tag: Customer Engagement

Business Solutions, Dataverse, Dynamics 365, Power Apps, PowerApps Component Framework (PCF), Unified Interface (UCI)

Creating a NAICS Code PCF Control using WebApi

In many of the projects that I have worked over the past years, either government of private sector, while working with other businesses it has become a common practice to request that Industry information from the companies that you work with, and furthermore the NAICS code. While not every company knows their NAICS code, drilling down to get it using the Industry (2-digit code), Subsector (4-digit code) and NAICS title (6-digit code) might be the way to go, sometimes you might want to bypass this complex search if you know ahead of time your business’ NAICS code and have it auto populated for you.

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Business Solutions, Dataverse, Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Unified Interface (UCI)

Error Notification UCI Enhancements in October Release

As part of the October 2019 release (Wave 2), the Unified Interface will receive a few usability enhancements that will address some of the issues that were reported by the community. These enhancements include: Anchoring error notifications, Viewing inline images for emails that are read-only, Improved usability/density and filtering in views and form header usability enhancements.

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Business Solutions, Dynamics 365, Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Pages (Power Apps Portals), Power Platform

Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform 2019 Release Wave 2

The Microsoft Dynamics 365 2019 Release Wave 2 is not available for early adopters. The release is scheduled to start deployment to production environments starting in October of 2019. During August and September, Microsoft Dynamics customers check out the upcoming list of updates that will be released in October.

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Dynamics 365, Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Platform

Dynamics 365 Connector in GCC

Recently I had to work on a PowerApps/Flow solution that would connect to a Dynamics 365 data source. I have done various things previously with the Dynamics 365 connector, but when trying to do the same in my GCC environment, I could not see the Dynamics 365 connector. I thought it was removed, but then I checked my commercial environment and it was there.

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Business Solutions, Power Apps, Power Platform

PowerApps Screen with Add New and Edit Mode

I recently ran into a requirement to do a PoC on a PowerApps to be able to add and update records in a single screen in PowerApps. In order to implement the PoC I decided to test this out on the Contact Entity in a Dynamics 365 environment. I did not make any changes to the Contact Entity, but just used some of the Out of the Box fields. In order to implement this, I wanted to get a look and feel of a form that would look the same whether entering new information or editing existing information.

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Business Solutions, Dynamics 365, Servers

Dynamics 365 Server version 9.0 available for download

A few days behind schedule, but the highly anticipated Dynamics 365 version 9.0 for On-Premise deployments is not available for download. Preview releases have been available for a while now via the Microsoft experience web site, but on 11/2 Microsoft made this release public.

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Business Solutions, Dynamics 365, Power Pages (Power Apps Portals), SharePoint

SharePoint Documents are back in Dynamics Portals October 2018 Release

Ever since Microsoft purchased AdxStudios and replaced the product with Dynamics Portals, one of the biggest pains was the removal of SharePoint documents. The interim solution of course was available using Azure blobs with the Dynamics Labs solution which provided document uploads, but using the Out of the Box SharePoint Documents was a miss by a lot of Portal Developers.

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Business Solutions, Development, Dynamics 365, Power Pages (Power Apps Portals), Web

Changing the details page link url for Entity Lists

When displaying entity lists on a web page, there is usually a default column in a view which is displayed as a hyperlink. The link to the page is displayed based on the Web Page for Details View and the ID Query String Parameter Name attributes on the Entity List form (as shown in the image below). The problem is, what happens if my page that is displaying the Entity List already has query string parameters, and you want to keep those parameters on the next page that you are going to display.

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