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Beware The Silent Partner

In the last week I had a couple of colleagues ask for assistance. Although very different issues the culprit was the same. Issue 1 – Delete a Business Process Flow The colleague required a BPF to be deleted. Even though it showed no dependencies, the BPF could not be deleted with error message advising of […]

Challenge 2 – ChatGPT vs Me

In the last challenge, it was so much easier to use ChatGPT than to create an article myself. In true agile spirit, I resigned quickly. The new challenge is to make the content even simpler. Would I be able to create a brief article thatsurpasses ChatGPT use? Topic The topic chosen relates again to Git; […]

WOW – My world is changing – Let’s test it

Yes, I am talking about ChatGPT. The more I research the more excited I get.But this excitement is a feeling. It would be good to do something practical.Thought I would take a simple challenge. Challenge – I will explain something like Remote Repository and then ask ChatGPT to explain it. Me: Remote RepositoryRemote Repository is […]

Relational Hierarchical in Same Repository – Cowboy

Keeping coding standards is relatively difficult for a small company. I have come across many ways that standards or lack of standards have been handled. The worst was so bad. The managing director would agree with each person in turn. Yip, if a standard was to be discussed, I could see before discussion started it […]

Dynamics 365 Marketing – So Much Noise

In all companies I have contracted for, the monitoring of the health of Dynamics 365 CE has been vital.CE has bugs and so do the custom developments (plugins , power automate, workflows). Thus on a regular basis, the plug-in logs and system jobs are monitored for any issues. IssueWhat would happen if a Microsoft plug-in […]

Dynamics 365 Marketing Triplets – Part 2

I opened a ticket with Microsoft, showed them the issue. They are still investigating the primary issue further. Background on Secondary Question:If you recall from previous blog: So, if you have Dynamics 365 Marketing, and look at the tables – you will find: We have triplets. <entity name=”msdynmkt_contactpointconsent”><entity name=”msdynmkt_contactpointconsent2″><entity name=”msdynmkt_contactpointconsent3″> Why three tables and […]

Dynamics 365 Marketing Triplets

So, if you have Dynamics 365 Marketing, and look at the tables – you will find: We have triplets. Next question what do they refer to? To do this we download the FetchXml – see extract below. <entity name=”msdynmkt_contactpointconsent”><entity name=”msdynmkt_contactpointconsent2″><entity name=”msdynmkt_contactpointconsent3″> Running the advance find, only ‘msdynmkt_contactpointconsent2’ returned records. Lets Google it, and see what […]

CIRCLES, LIKE THE SOUL, ARE NEVERENDING

TURN AROUND AND ROUND WITHOUT A STOPRalph Waldo Emerson Have you heard the slogan “The Wheel has come a full circle”. This is in particular true of computers and software industry.I’m sure we all have stories the circle repeating. Dynamics CRM and Dynamics 365 CE, have had the navigation on thetop, then changed to left […]

BE AWARE OF FRIENDLY FIRE – PART 2

Part 1 discussed friendly fire of users, this is quite understandable. Part 2 is about friendly fire of fellow team members. This to me, is often unavoidable but less palatable. Dual- Write is a technology that will require collaboration between team members. Dual-Write will requireDynamics 365 F&O knowledge, Dynamics 365 CE knowledge and Dual-Write knowledge. […]

BE AWARE OF FRIENDLY FIRE

One of the most important tips for Newbies (becoming developers / low code citizen developers) is : DO NOT BELIEVE AN USER DIAGNOSIS AS FACT. In fact, it is not only Newbies but the so called ‘Imposters’ starting a new job. The user is trying to assist will most probably take you down the wrong […]