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    SQL Server Installation – VS Shell installation has failed with exit code 1638

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    May 17, 2018

    I was getting below error during the SQL server 2017 installation. VS Shell installation has failed with exit code 1638 Reason: Exit code 1638 denotes “Another version of this program is already installed”. In my case, I already had Visual Studio 2017 installed on my machine and there was conflict…

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  • Dynamics Portals

    ‘Portal Comment’ not showing up – Dynamics Portals

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    May 13, 2018

    ‘Portal Comment’ is an OOB activity which comes with Portal solution and enables peer-to-peer interactions between Portal Users and Dynamics Users. To add ‘Portal Comment’ for a record, go to ‘ACTIVITIES’ tab on the form and select ‘Portal Comment’. Problem Statement: ‘Portal Comment’ added from Dynamics on a record not…

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  • CRM

    D 365 – Prevent Record’s Deactivate/Activate from Form – JScript

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    May 13, 2018

    Lets see how we can apply our validation logic and prevent Deactivate/Activate of a record from Form. Its a 3 step process: Register script on form’s ‘OnSave’ event Capture the ‘Deactivate/Activate’ event (i.e., by reading ‘SaveMode’ from Context) Prevent Save operation Below is the snippet to validate and prevent the…

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  • Misc

    DataTable – Destory() method not removing all the rows

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    May 7, 2018

    In one of my Dynamics portal’s requirements, I had to use Data Tables table control to bind the search results. I used below snippet to bind the results. var table = $(‘#customGrid‘).DataTable({ data: rows, destroy: true, columns: columns, oLanguage: { sLengthMenu: ‘Show _MENU_ items’, sInfo: ” <b>Showing _START_ – _END_ of _TOTAL_…

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  • Dynamics 365

    Dynamics 365 – Broken ‘Notes’ control on the form and Fix

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    May 5, 2018

    If you have upgraded to latest Dynamics 365 version or subscribed for 30 days trail and could not add a note or attachments in ‘Notes’ tab on form, this fix is for you. Problem statement: Could not add a Note or add attachment from ‘Notes’ control on form. ‘Notes’ panel…

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  • Dynamics 365

    D 365 – ‘Voice of the Customer’ solution installation failed

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    April 27, 2018

    Other day, I was getting solution installation failure error while installing “Voice of the Customer” on my trail instance. Issue was persisting even after multiple retries. Reason: I tried to install solution from “Manage your solutions” screen, which is the reason for failure (This approach used to work in CRM 2016…

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  • CRM

    D365 – Troubleshoot and Fix connectivity issues – ‘Microsoft Support and Recovery Assistant for Office 365’ tool

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    April 23, 2018

    Recently, I came across a Microsoft Support and Recovery Assistant for Office 365 tool from Microsoft to troubleshoot and fix Office 365 connectivity issues. Download This tool can fix many problems for you, or it can tell you how to fix them yourself with guided steps. It helped me fixing…

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  • CRM, Dynamics 365

    IntelliSense in Jscript/TypeScript file – Dynamics 365

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    April 16, 2018

    In this article, lets see how to configure intellisence with XRM syntaxes in your Jscript/TypeScript files. To enable IntelliSence, you need to install xrm npm package to your Visual Studio. Steps to install NPM package: To install npm package, you need to download and install a Visual Studio extension :…

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  • CRM

    Transaction aware batch processing using ‘ExecuteMultipleRequest’

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    April 10, 2018

    In this article, I am going to discuss about transaction aware batch processing in ExecuteMultipleRequest using  ExecuteTransactionRequest. Is ‘ExecuteMultipleRequest’ not a transaction aware? By design, ‘ExecuteMultipleRequest’ is non-transactional. Which means ‘Request’ objects added to ‘ExecuteMultipleRequest’ are independent of each other and if any exception occurred in any of the ‘Request’…

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  • CRM, Dynamics 365

    Dynamics CE – Demystify ‘Auto Number’

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    April 6, 2018

    ‘Auto Number‘ feature is available with Dynamics 365 (online) and V9.x versions. With this feature we are no longer dependent on 3rd party ISV solutions for Auto numbering. In this article I am going to cover a few use cases of Auto Number fields. How to create an Auto Number…

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