Dataverse: Export Import Solution from your command prompt using PowerApps CLI

Powerapps CLI have lots of function to support our daily activities. The most useful to me of course the command "pac plugin init" that automatically creates Plugin Project. Today, we will learn about Authentication and Solution commands to do export-import across the environment. Installing You can find the download link of the PowerApps CLI on this page. Once you have …

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Dynamics CRM: Create Custom Autonumber Plugin Using Azure SQL Sequence

In this blog post, I reviewed the Auto Number attribute that already can handle the common scenario. There is a way to give a simple conditional Auto Number from Nishant Rana that you can read here. But what if we want to implement a more complex scenario to generate the Auto Number part for instance we …

Dynamics CRM: Proving Auto Number Data Type Is Legit!

I just saw Nishant Rana's post about the auto-number data type that you can check here. And to be honest, I just knew about it and felt intrigued to test it. My expectation was pretty low about this data type (to handle lots of requests and result to duplicate numbers in the end). TL;DR (Too Long; …

Dataverse DevOps: Create Solution Exporter By Description

The last time I explained about DevOps, we can create an exe tool that can be used to automatically deployed Plugin and WebResources. Today, we will learn how to create business logic to export the Solutions (Managed/Unmanaged) based on the Solution description (If developer set the solution's description = DateTime.Now.ToString("dd-MM-yyyy"), then the tool will automatically export …

Exploration: Create Swagger API and Consume It In Canvas-Apps

Today we will learn how to create Swagger API > deploy it to Azure (App Service) > make custom connector > use it in Canvas Apps. Without further ado, let's make it! Create API First, we need to open your CMD line, then set the CMD (using CD command) to the directory where you want to create …

Dynamics CRM Plugin Development: Exploring File and Image DataType

Last week, we learned about File DataType and created Custom API to get the FileName and the Base64String Content. Which I thought is already good enough based on the last knowledge that I knew. But then I saw a post from Daryl Labar about his XrmToolbox EarlyBound Generator improvement around four months ago that said it will generate File attribute …

Dynamics CRM Plugin Development: Create TracingServiceExtensions for Logging Time Information

Have you got an error request time out in the plugin? If the plugin only contains simple business logic, It will not be hard to catch the problem. But what if you got lots of business logic that updating more than one entity? Today we will create simple extension functions that you can implement to …

Dataverse DevOps: Create Tool for Auto Deployment for WebResource + PluginAssembly

One of the topics I wanted to learn and cover is how to do DevOps in a Dataverse environment. DevOps for me is an operation/process that helps to ensure smooth delivery from developer to operation (end-user). The idea is to remove all the unnecessary/recursive process and automate it so all the stakeholders can focus on …

Dynamics CRM Entity Relationship Behavior Explained

Let's talk about Dynamics CRM Entity Relationship behavior! There are several behaviors in Dynamics CRM that we can apply to fit our requirements. With this blog post, I hope we can learn together about those options.  Create a lookup will automatically create a relationship But first, we need to understand the entity relationship. When we …

Dynamics CRM: Effective Way Calling Custom Web API in Javascript Development

Finally, I found how to call Custom Action from Xrm.WebApi.execute function. The funny thing is, the method has already been in place for a long time. I just realized how to call it after I have the curiosity to get the EnvironmentVariable effectively in Javascript (for calling Custom Web API in Plugin Development, you can refer to this blog …