Completing Activity using Custom Ribbon Button

Requirement Sometimes we have requirement to change activity status using custom button. Here we are going to discuss how we can complete activity using WebAPI and action using a custom ribbon button placed on the subgrid. Solution We are going to complete activity using custom action and then we will be calling our custom action using WebAPI. We will add… Read more »

Update entity from Canvas App using Patch

Introduction In earlier article we discussed about how updating entity from canvas app using Power Automate. This process is works fine if you don’t want to update current entity because executing Flow will take some time and you won’t be able to see the changes quickly so in this post we are going to discuss other option to update entity… Read more »

Update entity from Canvas App with Power Automate

Introduction This is third article about using Bing maps in Canvas app. In earlier articles we discussed about how we can show event organizer data in the gallery control and render them in the Bing maps. Today we are going to discuss how to update entity data from canvas app. Canvas app with Bing Maps in Dynamics 365 CE –… Read more »

Duplicate lookup reference was found -{Quick Tip}

Introduction While importing data into Dynamics 365 with lookup fields, sometime we get duplicate reference found error, if you are getting same error then here is the quick tip for you . Details While we are importing data into Dynamics 365 CE with lookup field, Dynamics try to relate lookup records based on the primary field name by default. So… Read more »

Canvas app with Bing Maps in Dynamics 365 CE -2

Introduction This is second article about using Bing maps in Canvas app. In the first article we discussed about how we can show event organizer data in the gallery control and render them in the Bing maps. In this article we are going to show event as well as event organization details in Bing maps. Details In last app we… Read more »

Canvas app with Bing Maps in Dynamics 365 CE -1

Introduction Sometime back I wrote Show child accounts on Bing Maps using client side code, today in this this article I will be discussing how we can show Bing maps in Canvas app and embed it in Model driven app. In this sample app we are going to show Event organizers on the Bing maps and it will look like… Read more »

Getting Current User Details in Canvas Apps

Requirement While working on the Canvas app sometime we want to get user details like name, email or other details. We can use this details depending on the requirement. Today we are going to discuss how we can fetch user details using 3 ways. Details This article assume you basic knowledge of Canvas app, if you are new to Canvas… Read more »

Selected entity is read only for this client error- Dynamics 365 CE UCI

Issue Recently while trying to create record for warehouse entity, I got following error Details Dynamics 365 CE entity can be enabled or disabled for the Unified client. If entity is enabled for Unified client we can also make it read only if required. These setting is are available under Outlook and Mobile. When I checked in warehouse I found… Read more »