What is moonlighting? Moonlighting means having a job that is separate from and in addition to the regular job that a person holds. This does not include a passive income job. This kind of job is one that does not involve the person actually putting any time or effort into it. Passive income jobs include… Continue reading Moonlighting is bad!
Hey Readers, breaking news!! and good ones this time!! Microsoft has released supported way for dependent assemblies in plug-ins. This release was released for public review for admins, makers, marketers, analysts automatically on 31 July 2022. General availability is yet to be announced. Currently developers use ILMerge Utility to combine set of assemblies in plug-in,… Continue reading Dependent Assemblies Update!
As any developer, one always follows the cycle of deployment using different environments, i.e., DEV (for development phase or the underground lab) -> UAT (for testing phase or Racoon city) -> PROD (for real-time application or the world). In SSIS also, we are able to deploy the same SSIS package in 3 different environments, but… Continue reading Copying environment variables from one environment to another using SQL query
Let me ask you a question. I give you two options and ask you to choose. I will ask you to give the reason for your choice. Simple? Wait. Hear the options and you will realize just how sadistic I actually am. Give yourself some time to think and you will sympathize with me. You… Continue reading Dynamics 365 Sales Solutions: Are You Doing It Right?
Often times we find ourselves in a situation where we want to find a particular value but we are unaware of its whereabouts, i.e., we don’t know in which table or column this value is present. Or we want to know in which other tables a particular value is present. Or just if this value… Continue reading Microsoft SQL Server > Find a specific value in all the tables of a database using T-SQL
Microsoft Power Pages is a part of the Microsoft Power Platform family. It is an evolution of Power Apps portals. The new features included are the new design studio. The templates are in preview for users to try and provide feedback. We can expect general availability of the Power Pages by next year. We can… Continue reading Introducing Power Pages!
While working with T-SQL, many times we create complex queries, and then we might need to optimize them at some later point of time to reduce the execution time. This activity always demands an approach to compare data for the older and newer version of the T-SQL. And here comes the question – how do… Continue reading How to quickly match data of two recordsets in SQL Server?
In the earlier blog post, we stated how to identify referenced measures or columns, i.e. whether they are used in other measures or not. If you haven’t visited the blog post, please click here. It is a very useful blog, especially in the big Power BI models. But this won’t be helpful when we would… Continue reading Power BI > How to identify referenced Measures and Columns in Model – II
A while ago, one of our clients gave us a vexing problem. They had a lot of rather large files, nearly 1 GB in size, stored in their SharePoint server. They wanted to allow their customers to be able to download these files from the company portal. The portal was the PowerApps Portal. But then,… Continue reading Download Large SharePoint Files From PowerApps Portal
Most of the time, while updating the existing model, it’s hard to identify which measures or columns are being used in report visualization and which are referring to other measures or columns. Many times, while developing a report, there are frequent changes in the requirements and we need to modify/update the data model accordingly, which… Continue reading Power BI > How to identify referenced Measures and Columns in Model – I
The no code/low code options are coming in, nice and easy. They don’t always make a big splash like the newest JavaScript framework. They don’t always give the open-source crowd nose bleeds that the newest JavaScript framework/newest language/newest stack/newest update of their favorite framework would do. The hard-core developers would scoff at these solutions especially… Continue reading Low code! No Code! Then why code?
Storage space comes at a premium in Dynamics 365 world. So, we need to manage it carefully and aggressively. When audit is enabled, the space it occupies creeps up steadily and silently and we only notice it when we get a message from Microsoft telling us we have run out of storage space. So, a… Continue reading Migrate Audit records from Dynamics 365 CRM to Azure SQL Server
We were facing some issue when writing code of Navigation in App.StartScreen and App.OnStart of App within PowerApps. It is widely used for the initialization of global variables, prefetching of data into collections, and to determine which screen should be shown first. By default, the first screen shown when an app starts is the first… Continue reading New Alternative of Navigate() function on App.StartScreen and App.OnStart in Canvas apps
Requirement: We had a requirement to import the balances of the Customers and Vendors in a fresh instance. Issues: The master data wasn’t imported in the system. No direct way to post the opening balances in the system. While posting the balances there was an error related to the General Journal posting. Solution: Master data… Continue reading How to insert new balances for Vendors and Customers in a new company in Business Central
We can now embed Power BI Dashboard/Reports in PowerApps Portal with few easy steps. Prerequisite:- D365 Customer Service organization having a Global user with D365 and Power BI license. ENABLE POWER BI VISUALIZATION In the PowerApps select the environment where you have provisioned the Portal. Go to Your Apps section from Power Apps home page and locate… Continue reading Embed Power BI reports in Power Apps Portal
Power BI supports up to 32766 characters of data in a column of TEXT Data Type. What if we have more data stored in the data source? Recently, we came across a requirement where we had to show the content of an email in HTML format in the Power BI report. The report was built… Continue reading Power BI > How to deal with a Text column having a length of more than 32766 characters.
Here are some interesting new updates in the latest release for Business Central Blocking deletion of G/L accounts This new feature is going to be introduced to help avoid accidental deletion of general ledger (G/L) accounts, this release wave adds an extra check. An extra safeguard against accidental deletion of G/L accounts even in the… Continue reading Business Central latest updates 2022 release Wave 1
Now, in this blog we will see how to access SharePoint online data. In this example, we will resize SharePoint Online image by using the Microsoft Graph API via SharePoint using the /_api/v2.0. We need to specify the size; large, small, and medium; in the request URL to resize the image that would give us… Continue reading Access SharePoint Online Data Using Postman Part 2
In this blog we will see how we can set default font style and font size for the Email records in Dynamics 365 Sales. To achieve this, we need to follow the steps below: Create a new web resource Bind the new Web resource to the required email form where the changes need to be… Continue reading Set Default Font style and Size of Email in Dynamics 365 Sales
In this blog, we will show you how we can interact with SharePoint via Rest APIs and perform actions like adding, updating, deleting, and fetching data using Postman. We are using two operations SharePoint App Registration and Azure AD app (Graph API). The important factor is Authentication and Authorization while accessing SharePoint information. Generate… Continue reading Access SharePoint Online Data Using Postman Part 1
The general purpose of slicer visual in Power BI is to filter the data points in the report and view only the filtered information. They provide options (single or multiple) to a user, to click on & filter the visuals on the page. Recently, in one of our projects, we were tasked with a requirement to highlight the bars of a bar chart instead of filtering the visual based on the selected value of the slicer. It sounded odd at first… Continue reading Power BI > Using slicer for just highlighting values without filtering
In Power BI, a drill–through feature permits the report consumer to peer detailed facts associated with the primary page in the context of a particular data point applied. With drill via Power BI reports, one can create a detailed report page on your data that focuses on a particular applied data point. When the readers want to analyze a particular record or data… Continue reading Power BI > Drill-through feature from Card visual
We all have imported data into CRM at some point in our life. And a part of the process of importing data is cleaning up the data the is to be imported. I am sure almost all of us have encountered some unusual data that we had to clean up and some unusual data that looks… Continue reading Dynamics 365 Sales data import. Anomalous materials and unforeseen consequences
Ever wondered how we can filter the Power BI report to show only Today’s data by default but at the same time give the flexibility to change the Date filter? The approach we as developers generally take is – create a calculated column IsToday in the Calendar table and have it return “Yes” for today’s… Continue reading Power BI > How to filter all the data by TODAY, by default?
In this blog I’ll be taking you over how to get the Object type Code for the particular entity based on the Entity name. Suppose we need to get object type code for different entities in a loop in an stand alone .Net application. Generally, people are writing a fetch into the loop but not… Continue reading Load metadata of all entities and get Object Type Code based on Entity name in Dynamics 365 for Sales.
Ever thought of manipulating the data in your SQL data source directly from the Power BI Report? If yes, our prayers have been heard (as the use of Power Automate within Power BI is still in Preview as of writing this blog) and will be answered soon (when made GA)! An exciting new feature was… Continue reading Updating the SQL DataSource from Power BI using Power Automate Visual
Description This blog will describe the updates on Business Central 18.3. Below is the list of the major updates available in Dynamics 365 Business Central. Document Objective G/L Entry Dimension Correction. Inventory Documents. Item Availability by Lot No. Variant codes on production orders in Business Central. In this blog we are going to discuss some… Continue reading Latest Updates in Business Central V 18.3
Description: This blog will describe the significance of the Schema Update Mode and why it is used in Business Central. We were facing some issues while working on the table extensions and realized that we could not change the data type or the size of the custom fields we described in the extension once published.… Continue reading Schema Update Mode in AL code for Dynamics 365 Business Central
Consider a scenario where your measure’s definitions are the same but the only difference is the base measures. For example, while doing time-related calculations like MTD, YTD, QTD for 3 different calculations/measures, we need to create 3 measures for MTD, 3 measures for YTD, and 3 measures for QTD, resulting in total 9 measures such… Continue reading Calculation Groups in Tabular Editor
In this blog I will show you how to create and configure Interactive experience dashboards in model driven apps. The Interactive dashboards are fully configurable and security-role based and deliver information across multiple streams in real time. The Interactive dashboards have two forms: multi-stream and single-stream. Multi-Stream dashboards can be table-specific dashboards. The multi-stream dashboards… Continue reading Create and Configure model-driven app interactive experience dashboards
Many times while uploading the documents of Dynamics CRM to the SharePoint we require that the fields of Dynamics CRM be reflected in the SharePoint column and we could also see the value populated in SharePoint Column in CRM. If you have any such requirements, stay tuned, as this blog is going to cover all… Continue reading Setting up the Custom Columns of SharePoint with Power Automate Flow and displaying them in Documents Grid in Dynamics 365 for Sales
There are various approaches to embed Power BI Dashboard/Report in D365 Sales, but each approach comes with its own drawbacks and cons that might not complement your requirements. Earlier we have posted blogs that describe the 4 approaches but as I said they have their own pre-requisite and cons. With the advancements of Power BI… Continue reading Power BI > Embed Dashboard/Report in D365 Sales with RLS – 5
For a while, we had been using a NuGet Package named SharePointPnPCoreOnline(as shown in below image), which can be used for authentication to SharePoint and other SharePoint Client Side Object Model (CSOM) tasks for managing SharePoint Online Data. This is what we used in our previous blog posts part1 and part2 to connect using clientid/client… Continue reading Secure Authentication of SharePoint with PnP Framework with C#(Code)
In this blog I’ll be taking you over how to preserve “Modified On” and “Modified By” fields during migration or data import. Generally, when we migrate the data, the records’ “Modified On” field value takes system local time and in the “Modified By” field it takes Current logged in User. But our requirement is when… Continue reading How to preserve Modified By and Modified On fields during Migration in Dynamics 365 for Sales
This time we will see how to authenticate logic apps. What is Logic Apps? Azure Logic Apps is a cloud service that helps you schedule, automate, and orchestrate tasks, business processes, and workflows when you need to integrate apps, data, systems, and services across enterprises or organizations. What we need Postman Basic understanding of the Logic App We… Continue reading Setup Authentication of Logic Apps using Logic Apps settings
Microsoft Power BI supports many data sources from where we can fetch data and a good Microsoft Power BI Consulting services provider can help, but many times, we need to use some workaround to fetch data from certain data sources. One such case is to get data from a folder on OneDrive. There are no… Continue reading Power BI > Get Data from OneDrive for Business (Folder as a source)
Microsoft introduced Power Apps a while ago. These can be considered a very small version of Dynamics 365. These apps can be developed quickly using almost the same methods that we use for Dynamics 365. In fact, as we all know, the apps available out of the box in Dynamics 365 are actually model driven… Continue reading Do we need Dynamics 365 any more?
I was wondering if we had any tools, workflow solutions, automatic processes or any connectors in PowerAutomate to support attaching the media files like images or videos from SharePoint folder to email messages before we send the emails. Basically, we wanted to automate the process of attaching the images and videos into the emails which… Continue reading Attaching media files from SharePoint to Dataverse Email records
In the previous blog we learnt how to make a connection between Business Central and Jet reports. Jet Reports are fast and flexible financial reporting solution that helps to eliminate the errors in traditional reporting available OOTB in the Business Central system. In this blog you will learn how to build a Jet Report in… Continue reading How to set-up Jet Reports in Business Central – Part 2
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