Trigger Power Automate (Flow) Synchronously from CDS

đź’ˇ Triggering the flow Synchronously may not be a good idea. So, use it carefully. đź’ˇ The steps mentioned here are not purely “citizen developer”, having said that it also doesn’t involve any coding. One should have knowledge on how to use Plugin Registration tool though. Again, as I mentioned in my previous blog post …

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Flows are not triggering or triggering very slow

There are times where for no “obvious” reason your flow stops working and/or triggering very slow (we are talking about hours together to trigger the flow).This I’m particularly talking in the context of CDS Trigger (when a record created/updated/deleted). When I faced this problem last week in one of our lower environments, It turns out …

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User Has Role

User Has Role in Workflow/Plugin

This morning, when I saw the requirement – “Check if the user has XYZ security role ... bla bla bla...”, Quite frankly, I thought it’s pretty straightforward. Join systemuserroles, roles and user, use RetrieveMultipleRequest – done!! But, when I started working on the task that’s when I realised there is this big gap (at least …

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Accelerate CRM web resources development using Fiddler

While developing web resources for Dynamics CRM, it is always a bit of pain to keep publish and test the changes. No matter how much-automated deployment you are talking about but those few minutes of publishing the solution breaks the flow of development for a “developer”. Here is a cool tip, using FIDDLER’s “Auto Responder” …

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Unsaved content in CRM - Visual representation

Unsaved CRM changes – Visual representation in USD

The other day, when I’m in discussion with the #USDGuru - @ParkhurstNeil; He showed me his interesting approach to use these emoji icons to display on tabs. He mentioned something similar to this over here. That strikes me the thought – why can’t we use this as a Visual representation for Unsaved CRM Tab? And …

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Asynchronous CRUD Operations in USD

Asynchronous CRUD operations in USD using CRM V9 updates.

It’s been quite a long time by posting a new blog post, bit occupied with our Jr. all these days 🙂 .. I would like to start with the almost new version of USD 3.0 in my come back blog. There are quite a good amount of features present in the new version and 1 …

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Twoway communication b/w CRM And Azure Service Bus

Two way communication between CRM and Azure Service bus

This is the next level of my previous post on Azure service bus integration with CRM. If you haven’t gone through it already, I would highly recommend you to go through it first over here as whatever we are going to do here in this post is kind of an extension to my previous one. …

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Queue Messages in Azure service bus

Dynamics CRM and Azure Service Bus Integration

This post is literally the outcome of 2 days struggle 🙂 to achieve a two way communication b/w Dynamics CRM (I think I should say 365 now) & Azure service bus. One of the main problem I faced is lack of material that describes integration with new azure portal. Even the MSDN & SDK both are referring to old …

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CRM To Sharepoint Integration with REST Api

CRM-Sharepoint integration with Sharepoint REST API using Custom Workflow – C#

Working for a client last week where in we got a requirement to create a Sharepoint list item when a new Lead is created in CRM. Being a CRM Resource, I have first checked the options (OOB/configurable) available for me and the first thing that came in to my mind is Microsoft FLOW. A quick …

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