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    D365 Integration – Handling concurrent transactions

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    October 26, 2019

    In one of our integration requirements, we got to make sure that there wont be any concurrent updates/deletion to the records, to avoid data loss. As an example, lets assume a Record 1 was retrieved by users U1 and U2 and both want to update ‘Name’ field same time, in this scenario…

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    D365/CRM – Document Template – Missing entity relationship

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    October 7, 2019

    Other day, I was configuring a ‘Document Template’ for a custom entity (Acknowledgement) which has a 1:N Relationship with Contact entity. For some reason, the Relationship was not showing up in the ‘1:N Relationship’ grid of the ‘Document Template’ configuration screen. Reason & Fix: The relationship ‘Searchable’ field was set…

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    CRM (on-prem) – Entity reference cannot have Id and Key Attributes empty error

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    October 7, 2019

    We encountered below exception from a custom workflow activity in our Dynamics CRM on-prem 8.2.3 application. Reason and Fix: Error message states that the ‘Output’ argument defined in custom workflow activity was returning ‘Null’. I have below output argument of type ‘Lookup’ defined in my custom workflow activity but it…

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    Web Development – Useful jQuery Syntax’s

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    October 7, 2019

    In this article, I am compiling the useful jQuery syntax’s which comes handy during your Dynmaics/ADX portal development or any other web development. Prerequisite Add jQuery library to your web page using <script> tag. You can get the jQuery CDN here Get Operations: Get HTML element by Id $(“#HTMLelementId“) Get…

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    Dynamics Portals – Add Download feature to the Forms

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    September 22, 2019

    In my previous article I’ve explained the Portal styling using Metadata option. This article is the extension to the styling article, where I will explain how to add ‘Download’ feature to the Form. I am going to use the ‘Registration’ form as an example, and will see the steps to…

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    [Dynamics CE] Configure and automate Document Template generation

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    September 21, 2019

    In this article, lets see how to configure ‘Document Template’ on ‘Contact’ entity and automate the template the generation using OOB ‘SetWordTemplate‘ Action from  a Workflow. Configuring ‘Document Template’: Form Dynamics application, navigate to ‘Settings -> Templates -> Document Templates’. Create a new Template and choose ‘Filter by entity’ as…

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    Dynamics Portals Styling – Design Forms with rich text and images

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    September 21, 2019

    Its pretty common requirement in Portals to design the forms with rich text along with images. One option to achieve this is by adding ‘Web Resources’ with HTML content to Dynamics forms. The downside of using ‘Web Resource’ is that it adds a white space towards the end. In this…

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    ‘Address Suggestions’ in Portals using Esri ArcGIS

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    September 15, 2019

    In our Dynamics Portals, we got a requirement to show ‘Address Suggestions’ as and when the end user start typing the address. We implemented the solution by consuming the Esri ArcGIS mapping service, from our Portal’s web page. In this article lets see how to implement this at a high level.…

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    [Code Snippet] Dynamics Post Assign Plugin

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    August 18, 2019

    This article is a response to one of the blog questions.  Below is the code snippet for Post Assign (i.e., Ownership change) plug-in. In the ‘Post Assign’ plug-in you get 2 Current record as ‘Entity Reference’ in ‘Target‘ attribute. Records new Owner (i.e., Owner or Team) in the ‘Assignee‘ attribute.…

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  • Misc

    C# Error while calling API – Could not create SSL/TLS secure channel

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    August 18, 2019

    Other day, we were getting following error while calling SSL enables 3rd party API from C# console. The request was aborted: Could not create SSL/TLS secure channel Fix: Add below statement before making your API call, which validates the SSL certification. ServicePointManager.ServerCertificateValidationCallback = delegate (object s, X509Certificate certificate, X509Chain chain,…

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