Category Archives: Dynamics 365 v9

Implement offline support for Canvas App in Dynamics 365 CRM

Introduction: Recently, we had a requirement where customer wants use Dynamics365 CE using PowerApp in Offline mode. Following are the steps to implement offline support for Power App to Dynamics365: 1. Create a default Canvas app by using Dynamics 365. You can refer to our previous blog here. 2. Insert a new Screen in the… Read More »

Create Dynamics 365 Records from an Excel using Microsoft Flow

Introduction: Dynamics 365 Records can be created from Excel using Microsoft flow “Create Dynamics 365 Leads from an Excel table”.  This is useful if user wants to create Records for each row from the Excel that is uploaded on any cloud storage space like google drive, OneDrive, DropBox, FTP, etc. In this blog, we will… Read More »

Update I/O parameters of a custom assembly without unregistering it in Dynamics 365

Introduction: As CRM developers we often come across some requirements to accomplish which, we need to write custom assemblies. The unique feature of a custom assembly is the Input and Output parameters saving some of the retrieves thus decreasing the processing time and complexity and eventually increasing the efficiency. Recently we came across a scenario… Read More »

Create Attachment in CRM with Camera Control using Canvas App in PowerApps

Introduction: Designing and building business apps using the Canvas app in Microsoft PowerApps is an intuitive experience with the ability to drag and drop elements onto the canvas. This gives the users the freedom to utilize and integrate business data from Common Data Service along with the choice of 200 data sources. Using the blank… Read More »

Create Records in Dynamics 365 with Canvas PowerApp

Introduction: Now, it is possible to build the business apps without having coding experience. Microsoft provide service named PowerApps using which users can build the apps as per the requirement and can run on the Browser, phone and tablets. With the help of Microsoft PowerApps, we can build the apps that run on browser, tablets… Read More »

The Power of Automation within Dynamics 365 CRM

Businesses generate terabytes of data every year, and that volume of data keeps on climbing exponentially as the companies grow. Business data is the driving force for the success of CRM systems like Dynamics CRM that helps businesses organize and analyze their business data. However, business data entry is usually done by people, and we… Read More »

Is it possible to Create/Update Application User in Dynamics 365 Programmatically?

You may have heard about the Application user in Dynamics 365. The Application user is a non-licensed and non-interactive user in the Dynamics 365 that we can use to connect to Dynamics 365 services to perform operations. Have you come across a requirement where you need to create/update Application User programmatically and do you think… Read More »

Update Smart Sheet at the time of entity records creation in Dynamics 365

Introduction: In our Microsoft Flow blog series, we have explored various topics related to Microsoft Flow and will keep on exploring more. Microsoft flow helps us to create a backup of our data in smart sheet. So user don’t need to download excel from CRM for further analysis. Recently while working in Microsoft Flow we found something amazing… Read More »

Automate ILMerge for Workflows/Plugins to Merge Multiple Assemblies into One in Dynamics 365

Introduction: Recently we got a business requirement where we need to merge two assemblies into single exe i.e. one .net assembly and another assembly which would serialize and deserialize, so we used Newtonsoft.Json.dll for it. To merge Newtonsoft.Json.dll with .net dll in single exe it is recommended to use ILMerge. ILMerge is a tool that can… Read More »

Show Lookup Dialog in Dynamics 365 v9.0

Introduction: In Dynamics 365 v9.0 Microsoft introduces new development feature in Dynamics 365 to show lookup dialog using Xrm.Utility.lookupObjects method. Xrm.Internal.Opendialog is most commonly used method to open dialog where we need to provide URL. But this method is not supported in UCI or mobile app. So, open a lookup window using JavaScript can be… Read More »