PCF: Lookup Attribute – Let’s take look under the hood
Lookup attribute was unavailable for PCF for a long time but the moment when it’ll become available and fully supported for developers of PCF controls is coming. In…
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PCF: 2 tips to minify the size of your PCF components (up to 15 times smaller)
About a month ago I joined the project where my main duty is the development of PCF components. I was soooo waiting for such a project to polish…
How to get type of the instance (production/sandbox/something else) using code
I was working on the plugin where logic had to work differently depending on the type of the instance, i.e. if code is executed in Sandbox environment –…
JS: How to get the originating record reference in the form script of the Quick Create Form
Just imagine that you need to define the context in which “Quick Create Form” was opened and depending on the context – to do some additional operations. In…
PCF: Adding external handlers to controls
After I published the initial version of my PCF Control Toolkit I was asked how I was able to use external JS files possible in one of the…
Development of custom Html/JS Webresources with help of modern frameworks
As you may know, Dialogs have been deprecated and are going away. I have a few customers who’ve asked me to replace their existing dialogs with something that…
Populate Regarding and Activity Party Fields in the UCI Interface
There are a few different approaches developers used to prepopulate the “Regarding” and “Activity Party” fields of activities: The “Microsoft” way – the way the Classic UI worked…
Open proper form based on record’s data – UCI way
A cool feature of the 2011 CRM version was the possibility to have multiple forms for the same entity. That feature is awesome but it has one drawback…
What’s new in D365 2020 Wave 1 release for front-end developers
There are a lot of different blog posts and video reviews of features available as a part of the Dynamics 365 2020 Wave 1 release. I played with…
Xrm.Navigation.navigateTo – gotchas, tricks and limitations
Here are ways that were used by developers to show Modal Dialogs: Xrm.Internal.openDialog Alert.js Custom Dialogs that used different frameworks like jQuery UI Dialog or similar But the…