Rollup Field Refresh on UCI Form
In the web client version of Dynamics when you hovered over a rollup field it would show a refresh icon to the right of the field. In the Unified Client Interface (UCI) version of Dynamics to recalculate the field you can click on the Calculator icon to the left of the field name and a Recalculate button will appear. Continue Reading Rick A. Wilson (RAW)’s Article on their blog Rollup Field Refresh on UCI Form In the web...
Custom Flow Connector For Parsing Address
While working on a demo of the Business Cards Scanner component for PowerApps I found that the component only returns the address as a single line and not as parsed address components (UPDATE: The Business Card Scanner does not split the address fields into the same level of detail as the Contact/Account entities). After looking around for flow connectors that could parse the data I only… Continue Reading Rick A. Wilson...
Update Business Process Flow Using Flow
When working through App In A Day Workshop I wanted to improve the Approval flow to move the Business Process Flow (BPF) Stage forward if the Device Order was Approved. I have utilized plugins and workflow previously to accomplish this type of action but never with Flow. After doing a quick search i found an article from Elaiza Benitez (Automatically update the stage of a Business Process… Continue Reading Rick...
Get Dynamics/CDS Base URL in Flow To Generate Links To Record
When sending emails or approvals in flow it can be helpful to also include a link to the record which is being referenced. In order to send those links though we need the environment URL of the Dynamics/CDS environment. This article shows an example of how to get the base URL for the environment and how to build a link based upon it. This will be demonstrated within a Flow created for the
PowerApps Naming Conventions and Coding Standards
When building canvas apps the naming conventions used by the objects can be very confusing once you have added a few screens. It is important to make sure you rename your components while working to allow for better readability and supportability of your application. Below are some common naming conventions which are available within the PowerApps canvas app coding standards and guidelines… Continue Reading Rick...
Turn on Teams/Skype Meeting Recording and Transcription for Entire Organization
<#.SYNOPSIS Turn on meeting recording and transcription for entire organization.PREREQUISITES Download the Skype for Business Online Connector Module – https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39366.ADDITIONAL RESOURCES Teams cloud meeting recording – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/cloud-recording Manage Skype for Business Online with Office 365 PowerShell -… Continue Reading Rick...
Validate Solution Using the PowerApp Checker (Includes On-Premise Solution)
I recently saw the article on how to validate solutions using the PowerApps Solution Checker and wanted to share the link. The Checker will work for all on-line and on-premise solution starting with Dynamics 2011. When I have some more time I’ll write up an article on how to use this in DevOps.Automatically validate your solutions using the PowerApps checker PowerShell ModulePowerApps… Continue Reading Rick A....
Finding Largest Files on Drive Using Powershell
Recently a colleague of mine was having issues with low drive space on one of our servers. Because this is a clients system i am unable to copy over WinDirStat which is what i would usually use to determine what is eating up all the drive space. Instead I ended up using PowerShell to show me to top files which were eating up space. dir -path c: -rec -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | sort -desc… Continue Reading Rick A....