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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 […]

MB240 Field Service Study Notes – PURCHASE ORDERS & INVENTORY

I’m preparing for my Dynamics 365 Field Service (MB240) certification, and as part of my journey, I’m creating blog posts that reflect my study notes and revision. I hope that these posts will serve as a helpful resource for anyone else working toward the same goal. Based on past exam patterns, Microsoft frequently includes questions […]

MB240 Field Service Study Notes – PURCHASE SETTINGS

I’m preparing for my Dynamics 365 Field Service (MB240) certification, and as part of my journey, I’m creating blog posts that reflect my study notes and revision. I hope that these posts will serve as a helpful resource for anyone else working toward the same goal. Where ‘Purchase Order Approval Required’ is a boolean. This […]

MB240 Field Service Study Notes – TIME ENTRY SETTINGS

Where ‘Time Entry Generation Strategy’ has options The settings allow for ‘Manual’ generation of time settings or ‘Auto Generation’ of time settings. Auto-Generate from Booking Timestamp – The system generates them from the booking timestamps.(Booking timestamps – every time a change booking from scheduled to travelling to in progress,it logs that timestamp into the system […]

MB240 Field Service Study Notes – Statuses

I’m preparing for my Dynamics 365 Field Service (MB240) certification, and as part of my journey, I’m creating blog posts that reflect my study notes and revision. I hope that these posts will serve as a helpful resource for anyone else working toward the same goal. Statuses are critical to Field Service and should be […]

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 […]