Moving Azure Function Configuration – Quick Tip

Requirement Sometimes we need to use same configuration to different Azure function app, specially while we are writing Azure Function for Dynamics 365 CE where we need similar kind of configuration details to connect to Dynamics 365 CE, let see how we can do that. If you are new Azure Function Configuratoin, please refer this first. Details If we have… Read more »

Calling Entity bound Actions using Xrm.Web API with Entity Collection

Requirement In this article we are going to discuss about calling entity bound action which have entity collection as parameter, we need to created this parameter from array list, while sending entity collection we need to send customer lookup as well, so let’s see how we can do that. Details Earlier, we discussed about calling out of the box actions… Read more »

Overriding out of box command button behavior – Step by Step UCI

Requirement: Sometime back we published a post for overriding out of the box command button behavior which works fine for the web client but one of our blog reader reported through twitter (Power of Social media 🙂 ) that this customization is not working with UCI, so I thought of re-writing the same for the UCI. Details: Let’s see how… Read more »

Downloading Notes Attachments using Paging

Introduction This article is about downloading Notes attachment from Dyanmics 365. If you have large number of records from where you want to download attachment, you can face different issues like timeout, slow downloading etc. Here I am going to provide sample code which you can use to download attachments from small set of data. Details To download attachment from… Read more »

Cannot connect to your Azure SQL DB logical server- Azure SQL Server

Recently I setup Azure SQL Server from Azure portal UI and I wanted to access it from outside so I configured all required steps so that it is accessible remotely like following screen: but still I was getting following error while trying to connect to Azure SQL Server from my machine: Cannot connect to your Azure SQL DB logical server/Azure… Read more »

Implementing Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement

Happy to share news that my 3rd book is published now. This book will help you learn about Dynamics 365 Customer engagement implementation options as well as you will learn about how to customize and extend Dynamics 365 CE. This book is divided into following 12 chapters: Introduction to Dynamics 365 CE This chapter will help you to understand basic… Read more »

Bulk Deletion Job Canceled Automatically – {Quick Tip}

Introduction Dynamics 365 allows us to delete our data in bulk. We can define query to select target data which we want to delete. We can also schedule if require and configure notification by providing email, which is used to send notification once bulk job is completed. If you are new to bulk deletion job then you can check this… Read more »

Filtering User Lookup based on the Team

Requirement While working on the Dynamics 365 CE implementation where we are using teams, sometime we want to filter user lookup based on the teams. Our requirement to check security type in our project entity if it is project based we need to filter user lookups based on the project teams which is created using project name, so let’s see… Read more »

Using Configuration with Azure Function

Introduction Sometimes we need want to store configuration data in our Azure Function which we can be referenced in our Azure Function, these configuration data includes storing server urls, connection strings, credentials etc. This is very useful when we want to deploy our Azure function in different environment, we don’t need to do any changes in our Azure function code,… Read more »

Build, Customize and Deploy your Canvas app with CDS

If you don’t know about Power Platform 25 Virtual Conference you are definitely missing lost of valuable contents. Experts from around the globe conducting these session on different topics like Dynamics 365 XrmToolBox Power Apps Power Automate PowerApps Portals Power BI AI Builder Power Virtual Agents You can join them without any registration here aka.ms/power24group6. You can join session based… Read more »