Dataverse DevTools – Jan 2022 Release

Check out the new features released in the Dataverse DevTools. Thanks to the community for providing good feature requests.

Create Power Apps Developer Environment

If you want to work on your Power Apps skills but are stuck as you do not have your own Dev environment where you can practice then below are the steps which will help you create a "Developer" environment using "Power Apps Community Plan" where you can practice. This environment is only for building your…

Resolved: Workflow Elements Table Query Not Fetching Data

Workflow Elements tool created by Aiden Kaskela saves lot of time building complex workflows. And recently it's source code was released on GitHub. Latest solution packages are available under "Release" tab on GitHub. One of the great feature I like about this tool is to Fetch the data using Fetch XML and post it on…

Resolved: Property not fetching data in Custom Control

Have you ever encountered an issue where you have multiple properties configured in your Control Manifest file and you configured it correctly in Model-Driven app. But for some reason you do not get the value from the field that was bound in the configuration. For example I had my Control Manifest file as below. <?xml…

How to hide OrgChart from Ribbon

I was posted a question by one of my colleague "how can he hide OrgChart from the ribbon". I had done this a while back but couldn't remember how did I do it but after doing some poking around on the ribbon I identified it and wanted to document the process and what better way…

Why is Entity read-only in Unified Interface

As you make the move from Web Refresh interface to Unified Interface and encountered an issue where the Entity is read-only in UCI but not in Web Refresh . This is true for system admins as well. The application is doing that because the Entity in question is configured as "Read-Only in Mobile". To resolve…

PCF Custom Control Builder

Now with PowerApps Component Framework for model-driven apps and PowerApps CLI generally available, I think the XrmToolbox plugin PCF Custom Control Builder will come very handy. This tool enables you to build Custom Controls with ease where you do not need to write the CLI commands. Most of the commands are consolidated into one button…

Configuring Password Reset in D365 Portal using Azure AD B2C

Previously I have written a detailed blog on how to setup Azure AD B2C authentication on CRM Portals and also have a post that lists any possible issues you might face during the setup and how to resolve them. Now, let's look at how to setup Password Reset on CRM Portals that use Azure AD…

Configuring D365 Portal Authentication using Azure AD B2C

Well most of us have been configuring or rather not doing any configuration with authentication and have been using local authentication. But believe me if we spend more time configuring the Portal Authentication to use Azure AD B2C you will get more secure and more user management capabilities. First thing you will need is Azure…

Embedded PowerApps in D365 CE using custom control

Recently, I saw Canvas App control in the list of custom control and thought of giving it a try. So, let's see how to go about it. Steps to perform You would need a new field to be created in CRM that can hold the App Id Add that field on the form where you…