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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 […]

ENTITY OR TABLE – I Finally got it. I think.

I only show an image of a table, for two reasons: Do not know what a well known picture of entity is (outside of ERD) Dynamics 365 CE / Dataverse has said Goodbye to entities I really did not know why, and this disturbed me for a while. I kept referring entities as entities initially. […]

Hey Microsoft, What Came First, The Chicken Or The Egg

So if I had to say what comes first to sales person: the answer would be a lead If I had to ask the same question to a sales person entering data into Dynamics 365 CE Sales:the answer would be a lead Most probably most of these people would look at weirdly for asking the […]

DATAVERSE DATA IMPORTING METHODS

What are they, which should I choose? IMPORTING METHODS Without even digging deep here are 8 ways to import data. Note not limited to these. make.powerapps.com => Dataverse => DataFlows make.powerapps.com => Dataverse => tables => Account (example) => Data => Edit Data in Excel make.powerapps.com => Solutions => <mysolution> => tables => Account (example) […]

DATAVERSE DATA IMPORTING ERROR MESSAGE

Not the clearest error message Context In a previous blog, I complimented Business Central but bemoaned the quality of the Dataverse error messages. In this blog, I will discuss one of these error messages This message turns out to be misleading in the scenario discussed below. Complex Imports A common process to import data, the […]

LEGENDARY BLOG!! : POWER AUTOMATE

Who knew!!! Child Flows So you want to duplicate a flow that calls a child flow. This is a common requirement for me. Easy “Save As”. However Microsoft says NO, you cannot do this. I would love to know why not. Instead of a simple button, we have to resort to a complex method involving […]

WOW!! BUSINESS CENTRAL:

YOUR IMPORTING DATA IMPRESSES Dataverse has so many choices what should I use Noise The importing of data is critical into any new application. The importing process of data is often treated as noise. In other words it needs to be done, but not given respect in terms of estimating enough time to ensure it […]