Rajeev Pentyala – Technical Blog on Power Platform, Azure and AI

You would have got “An unknown failure has occurred…” many times in your portal when there was exception thrown by your Dynamics CE plug-in code.

Now in Dynamics Portals, we can show the plug-in error in following portal screens by adding “Site/EnableCustomPluginError” entry in Dynamics CE Portals -> Site Settings

• Entity list
  • Retrieval of records
• Entity form
  • Retrieve
  • Create/Update and so on
• Web forms
  • Retrieve
  • Create/Update and so on

Lets see the approach and steps.

• I have created and registered a plug-in with logic to intentionally throw an exception on ‘Case’ Create.

• Go to your Portal and try to create a Case and you would get below generic exception “An unknown failure…”

• Now open your Dynamics CE application, navigate to Portals -> Site Settings and create a new Site Setting with Name “Site/EnableCustomPluginError” and Value true.

• Go back to your Portal and try to create a Case and you would get actual Plug-in error.

🙂