Let’s try Dataverse DevTools to easily create/update WebResource customizations!

Lately, I'm still preparing my presentation for Reactor Indonesia with the topic "Membangun Solusi Low-Code Dengan Power Platform" and when I'm stumbled to create the WebResource, I remembered about Dataverse DevTools by Danish Naglekar that already being installed in my VS Code for so long since he published the tool but I had never tried …

Dataverse: How to use RetrieveEntityChangesRequest to synchronize data with externals system

In Dataverse, we have lots of ways to notify the external system about the changes that happened in Dataverse individually (per row data). We have Azure Aware Plug-in, WebHooks, and we also can write a custom plugin that will call HTTP operations. But in the world of Software Architecture, there is always a pro and …

How to make Azure Functions + Dataverse Service Client

In this blog post, we will learn how to make Azure Functions for hosting APIs that will be used to connect with Dataverse (via Dataverse Service Client) and possibly other functions. Even though in Dataverse we actually can create custom APIs to do the same thing (but we need to merge third-party libs if any), …

Dynamics CRM: addOnLookupTagClick and removeOnLookupTagClick

Today we will learn simple methods that are related to the datatype lookup on CRM: addOnLookupTagClick and removeOnLookupTagClick. Basically, addOnLookupTagClick is a function to register an event when the user is clicking the lookup tag value. Click the Lookup Tag value From the image above, if we click the lookup tag value and we register the events using addOnLookupTagClick, those events will be …

Dynamics CRM: Implement Feature Flags in Plugin

"Feature flags" is a mechanism to set the on/off for a feature without changing the code. You can learn more about this from a blog post here. With the Environment variable in place (which previously many organizations created their own Config Table), we can implement Feature flags in the Plugin.  Fow chart The idea is to make all …

Dynamics CRM: ExecuteBatch vs ExecuteMultipleRequest

When working with CrmServiceClient (creating integration custom app to CRM), I always pass this object as IOrganizationService. But when I try to inspect the difference between interface IOrganizationService vs CrmServiceClient class (indeed CrmServiceClient is inherited from IOrganizationService). Later on, I found the ExecuteBatch method on CrmServiceClient and ended up google it and found an article from Inogic that you can access here (from 2017!). Based on the blog post, we …