Accidental data deletion in Dataverse happens more often than we expect. A bulk delete job, an incorrect Power Automate flow, or incorrect manual delete can remove important records in seconds. Instead of restoring the environment, Dataverse provides a much better…

In earlier posts, we looked at how to move a Business Process Flow (BPF) stage and finish the process by directly updating the BPF entity instance. In this post, we’ll use RetrieveProcessInstancesRequest and RetrieveActivePathRequest to move a Business Process Flow…

In the previous post, we explored how to move a Business Process Flow (BPF) to the next stage using a console application, with the Phone to Case Process as a working example. Advancing the BPF stage, however, is only part…

In Dynamics 365, Business Process Flows are usually progressed by users through the UI. However, in scenarios like data migration, bulk remediation, or backend automation, we may need to move a BPF stage programmatically. Here we will cover one of…

In one of our recent Dynamics 365 / Dataverse projects, we ran into one issue with auto-number fields. We had configured an auto-number for the custom_id field on the Opportunity table. The format used a prefix of QU- followed by…