💡 Triggering the flow Synchronously may not be a good idea. So, use it carefully. 💡 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 …
Continue reading Trigger Power Automate (Flow) Synchronously from CDS
This may not be an everyday requirement but certainly one that picks the brain when the requirement comes. Quickly the part of the requirement is to retrieve the primary attribute name dynamically for the given entity. It didn’t took much time to realize that the OOB CDS’s List action is not helpful, that’s when I …
Continue reading Retrieve Meta data information of Dynamics CRM (CDS) in Flow
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 …
Continue reading Flows are not triggering or triggering very slow
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 …
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” …
Continue reading Accelerate CRM web resources development using Fiddler
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. …
Continue reading Two way communication between CRM and Azure Service bus
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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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 …
Continue reading CRM-Sharepoint integration with Sharepoint REST API using Custom Workflow – C#
In the Part 1 & Part 2 of this series we have seen how do we install USD Project templates in visual studio and how to implement custom logic for the Actions when a Action call is fired by the Administrator. I would recommend you to go through them once as they also cover the Scenario …
Continue reading Create Custom Hosted Control – Part 3 (Firing USD Events from C#)
I'm sure this post will answer 2 questions. a) How to call Custom actions from WebAPI b) How to reduce the "chatting" b/w client n' server. When it comes to #b, reducing chatting b/w client n' server - Imagine you have a custom web resource from which you are creating/updating multiple records in to CRM, …
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