Category Dynamics 365 / CRM 2016

Dynamics 365 – Full List of Dynamics Portals Site Settings

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It’s not easy finding an up-to-date list of the available site settings utilised by Dynamics Portals or at least I’ve not had much luck in finding one, so this is a first attempt at creating a list. If I’m missing any feel free to comment below and I’ll get them added in.

Unfortunately, WordPress doesn’t lend itself very well to showing tables with a large quantity of information so I would suggest using your browsers search functionality if you’re looking for a specific setting.

And finally, I’m sure there are many more Site Settings that are supported but I’m yet to use them and can’t find a single reference point which lists all of the currently available values.

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Dynamics 365 – Web Portal Activities not Appearing in Cases

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Hey All, today I’ll be going over another minor issue I came across whilst setting up a Dynamics 365 Self-Service Community Portal, although I have seen reports of this issue affecting all instances of the Dynamics portals.

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Dynamics 365 – The record could not be deleted because of an association

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The record could not be deleted because of an association

The record cannot be deleted because it is associated with another record. If you contact support, please provide the tecnical details.

This is normally a horrible error message to come across and one I’ve been dealing with thanks to the Sample Data feature of CRM bugging out on me and leaving me with the job of removing everything myself.

Luckily the tools are there to sort this out in a logical manner.

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Dynamics 365 – Self-Service Customer Portal Initial Setup

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This article will go over the initial setup for the ‘Self-Service Customer Portal’ available in Dynamics 365 Cloud. Although, most of the steps will apply to any of the available portal solutions.

I won’t go into detail about the licence requirements or about advanced customization of the portal as that’s a whole other topic in itself, however, if you’d like me to cover that in another article, comment below and request it.

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Dynamics 365 – Best New Features of the Spring 2018 Release

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This post is a copy of Vicky Rogers great summary of some of the exciting new functionality we’ll be getting with the Spring update rolling out across the world at the moment. The original article can be found on LinkedIn.

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Dynamics 365 Finally Adds ‘Not In’ Queries!

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For those of you who make use of Dynamics Advanced Find functionality, there is some good news.

With Dynamics 365’s 9.0 update Microsoft will be rolling out a ‘Not In’ query which will allow you to search for records which don’t contain a specific value. This is definitely a highly requested feature and something which should make a good quantity of queries a lot simpler.

More information can be found on Microsofts Dynamics 365 Help Center.

Dynamics 365 – Inline Editable Grid Views

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A very overlooked (and I think it’s safe to say ‘underutilised’) piece of functionality in Dynamics is the ability to make lists for most entities inline editable, Ie. the ability to provide an ‘Excel-like’ experience for your users.

This can aid greatly in data entry and modification allowing users to work their way down a list updating records without the tedium of the opening, editing, saving, closing workflow most users have come to expect.

In this article, I am going to cover how to set up the Editable Grid View for accounts and list some of the limitations.

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Dynamics 365 – Populating Test Environments with Sample Data

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An often overlooked feature of Dynamics CRM is the ability to quickly and efficiently add sample data and to remove said sample data once you’re happy with your setup, which is a great help to any form of testing.

In this short article, I’ll go over adding and removing Sample Data from your deployment.

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Dynamics 365 – Email ‘From’ Field Grayed Out/Locked/Read-Only

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With new updates come’s new bugs and this one certainly caught us off guard when we realised that we could no longer set the ‘From’ field of emails in our Dynamics system. This article will go over the details of a workaround to this issue until the problem is resolved with a future update.

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Dynamics 365 – Web Service Error Codes Cheat Sheet

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This is a rather long list of just about every single error that Dynamics 365 can generate which is useful when debugging errors using Dynamic’s built in trace logs. This is as much for my own use as others so use it how you will and the original list can be found at – https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/gg328182(v=crm.8).aspx

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