Dynamics 365 Rocker's Blog

We were using Pre-Image in our workflow and returning an attribute value of this pre-image as an output parameter. Suddenly we were getting the below error: An unexpected error occurred from ISV code. (ErrorType = ClientError) Unexpected exception from plug-in (Execute): MyProject.Workflow.Value: System.Exception: Could not load type 'System.Buffers.Text.Utf8Formatter' from assembly 'MyProject.Workflow' because the method 'TryFormatDecimalG' has no implementation (no RVA).  The code was like this: Entity preImageEntity = crmWorkflowContext.WorkflowExecutionContext.PreEntityImages.Contains("PreBusinessEntity") ? crmWorkflowContext.WorkflowExecutionContext.PreEntityImages["PreBusinessEntity"] : null; StringAttrValue.Set(context,  preImageEntity .Attributes[AttributeName.Get(context)]); To resolve this issue, We have to implicitly cast attribute name "To String" as shown below StringAttrValue.Set (context,  preImageEntity  .Attributes[...

One day, some of the users in my Dynamics 365 CE environment were not able to attach a document against an appointment and other activities. A user who has a basic(user-level) create, global read, business unit edit, and global "append and append to" privileges on activities, trying to attach a document against an activity that is owned by another user/team. But unable to do it and getting an "insufficient privilege" message. We know that there is no privilege in the security role for "Attachment" and many people suggest that attachments are handled by "Note(annotation)" privilege. I have increased the notes privilege to global but no luck. After doing some research, I came to know that the "Activity attachments(Activitymimeattachment)" privilege depends on Activities. When I increased the activity  "Create, Append and append to" privilege to Global(Organization) then attachment also inherited this privilege. Hence users are a...

You may be surprised but you can't find "Microsoft Dynamics CRM" now. If you are in the IT industry or your business is using CRM then you must be aware of this software. This particular CRM has three major modules i.e, Sales Service Marketing Historically, CRM and ERP applications were often independent and monolithic. They required complex deployments. CRM and ERP were not interrelated and developer effort required to sync data between these applications. It increase the cost as well. Microsoft tore down the traditional silos of CRM and ERP, bringing them together in a powerful set of applications.  This set of applications called Dynamics 365. Following applications are part of Dynamics 365: Transactional Applications: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales Microsoft Dynamics 365 Marketing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service Microsoft Dynamics 365 Field Service Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance Dynamics 365 Supply Chain M...

In simple words, Microsoft Power platform is a place where we can work on the following technologies: PowerApps  Power Automate Power BI  Power Virtual Agents   We can create the following type of components in PowerApps: Model-Driven App : Default app for Microsoft Dataverse or Dynamics 365. We can not connect with other system databases except Microsoft Dataverse. Canvas App : It provides the facility to connect with multiple system databases including Microsoft Dataverse. There are multiple prebuilt connectors available that help us to connect with multiple systems. Power Portal : It is a website for users who do not have an office365 license, Here users can interact with Microsoft Dataverse data. Here we can create flows and do operations in Microsoft Dataverse as well as in other systems. There are multiple prebuilt connectors available that help us to connect a flow with multiple databases. For eg, A task record should be created in Dynamics 365 if we get a tweet on...

Last month Microsoft changed the name of Common Data Service to  Microsoft Dataverse or Dataverse. There are the following changes in terms that we used to call in CDS: CDS Term Dataverse Term Entity Table Attribute/Field Column Optionset /Multiple Optionset Choice Two Option Yes/No Record Row But there is no change in API or web service, CreateEntityRequest is still called as CreateEntityRequest. Have a look at Power App to see the changes: But these changes are not reflected in Dynamics365 Solution. We can find the old term there i.e. "entity and option set" but the same solution in the power app reflects the new term i.e. Table, Choice etc. Solution in Dynamics 365  Solution in PowerApp CDS connector in Power App still has the name "Common Data Service", It may or may not change in the future. Solutions in Dynamics 365 may or ma...

Few months before,I got a task to automate solution deployment process through Powerapps Build tools. Before doing this , I had no experience in AzureDevops. Hence I am sharing my experience through this blog that may be helpful to non Devops guys who are working in Dynamics365. Step1: Create a folder and Solution files in Master branch. Step 2: Click on Release then Pipelines and Click on "Create Pipeline" Then click on "Use classic editor" as highlighted in below image. Select "Azure Repos Git" and select correct "Team Project", "Repository" and "Branch as Master" then click on continue. Click on "Empty Job" as mentioned in below image. As per below image , You can add a task by clicking on highlighted "+" button and search for PowerApps tools  and get it or install it. Once you install it then click on "+" button  as highlighted in...

One day, We were getting below error while accessing Advanced Settings of Dynamics365 CE. Even System administrator was also getting same error. This issue was related to Sitemap. Actually our Sitemap has been corrupted, To resolve this issue, take backup of sitemap from other CRM environment and import it on environment where this error is coming. I have posted this on Community and get resolution of it. To know more about it please follow below post: https://community.dynamics.com/crm/f/microsoft-dynamics-crm-forum/381761/if-you-are-the-administrator-you-can-go-to-the-solutions-page-and-import-a-different-solution Cheers, Rocker