Category Archives: Dynamics 365 v9

(Solved) Paging cookie issue in FetchXML – Dynamics 365

Recently while working in Dynamics 365 CRM we were facing the strange issue while retrieving more than 5K records using Web API with FetchXML The issue occurred when we retrieved more than 5K records using Web API with FetchXML, it was returning the same paging cookie everytime as shown below. “<cookie page=”1″><fullname last=”D. DAVID” first=”FRAN HUANG” /><contactid… Read More »

Get Specific Filter Parameter Value in SSRS Report – Dynamics 365 CRM

Recently, we had a business requirement in which one of our clients needed some modifications in report. So as we all know, SSRS reporting tool is most widely used to make customizations in the report. Requirement: User should be able to see the updated report header based on, the value selected for the field in… Read More »

Synchronizing Dynamics CRM Tasks with Google Tasks

Introduction: With the introduction of Microsoft flow, it has now been hassle free experience for users who wish to sync their Dynamics 365 CRM tasks with their respective Google accounts tasks. In our last posts, we have covered how we can Create a record in Dynamics 365 using Gmail Connector and Create Dynamics 365 Records from an Excel on Google Drive using Microsoft Flow. In… Read More »

JavaScript: “Execution Context” provides Form Values on Web as well as UCI in Dynamics 365 v9.0

Introduction: No doubt, Microsoft Dynamics 365 v9.0 surprised us with the UCI feature which provides a generic user interface to users, this is about UI but behind the scene for developers also Microsoft provided “Execution Context” object which is a collection of array. Recently we have a business requirement to perform some action using Custom… Read More »

Capture Image API in Dynamics 365 v9.0

Introduction: As we all know Microsoft has introduced many of new client APIs in Dynamics 365 v9.0 which makes dynamics CRM developer’s life easy. ‘CaptureImage’ is one of the useful API for Dynamics 365 mobile users. In this blog, we will see how this API helps Dynamics 365 mobile users to capture image and use… Read More »

How to Retrieve SiteMap XML programmatically in Dynamic 365

Introduction: We can edit Sitemap by using Microsoft Dynamic SiteMap Designer or SiteMap Editor using XrmToolBox. Whereas we can also update SiteMap programmatically, but before updating SiteMap we have to retrieve SiteMap XML programmatically. So in this blog, we will discuss about how to retrieve SiteMap XML programmatically. Recently, we came across below scenario, Where… Read More »

Use WEB API Batch Request in Dynamics 365 to execute long FetchXML

Introduction: Recently we had a project where we use WEB API for retrieve the records from Dynamics CRM. In our project, we dynamically create FetchXML to retrieve records but sometimes Fetchxml have a lot of columns and conditions etc so its length get increase and we this the fetchxml in URL which violates the browser… Read More »

Booking Alert activity on Schedule Board in Dynamics 365

Introduction: Microsoft Dynamics CRM 365 always surprises us with the new features that are being introduced. One such feature is “Booking Alert” on Schedule board. Booking Alerts in Field services is an activity type which has ability to show in the schedule board. Booking Alert is actually an effective alert for the Dispatcher who is working with… Read More »

Create Customer Lookup in PowerApps using Data Context

Introduction: Recently, we had a business requirement to show customer lookup in PowerApps similar to the customer lookup in Dynamic 365. For example – In Dynamic 365, we have customer lookup of contact and account, using this we can select contact and account. To achieve the same thing in PowerApps, we have to use “Context”… Read More »