Dustin Miner – Page 3

Posted in Dynamics 365 CE, TypeScript, Visual Studio

Unit testing with xrm-mock in Visual Studio Code

Dustin Miner
posted on May 27, 2022May 21, 2023
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Overview The post provides a few examples of unit tests for Dynamics 365 client-side TypeScript (Figure 6). It also describes, at a very high level, some of the configuration required to achieve

Posted in Developer Tips, Dynamics 365 CE, Visual Studio

Helpful Tools

Dustin Miner
posted on May 18, 2022May 21, 2023
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The purpose of this post isn’t to cover popular tools such as Fetch XML Builder or the Ribbon Workbench but tools that are perhaps less known and free to use. I plan to keep adding to this post

Posted in Dynamics 365 CE

Versioning Solutions and Patches

Dustin Miner
posted on April 10, 2022July 15, 2022
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This post describes an example of naming solutions and patches (and their resulting unmanaged solutions) when deploying to the higher environments e.g. SIT, UAT & PROD. It describes how to do

Posted in Dynamics 365 CE

Display associated records on the ‘Related’ tab

Dustin Miner
posted on March 5, 2022July 15, 2022
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Introduction The post illustrates how to display related records in a form’s ‘Related’ tab. This is explained by using the example of associating multiple receipts to an invoice.

Posted in Developer Tips, Visual Studio

Keyboard Shortcuts & Commands

Dustin Miner
posted on February 28, 2022August 23, 2023
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Here’s a list of keyboard shortcuts & commands that I use in my day to day activities. I find it makes life a bit easier File System Search For a grep like search using the window command

Posted in Canvas Apps

Canvas Apps Functions

Dustin Miner
posted on February 12, 2022May 6, 2022
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Introduction The post contains screenshots I took when going through some Microsoft tutorials. There functions covered are: Search, SortByColumns, Distinct, Filter, Lookup, Sequence & Collect

Posted in Dynamics 365 CE, SSRS

Uploading a report to an SSRS server

Dustin Miner
posted on January 30, 2022March 15, 2022
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Introduction In Dynamics 365, most of the time, users are going to want to view reports from within Dynamics 365. However, there are scenarios where reports don’t need to be viewed from within

Posted in C#, Dynamics 365 CE, JavaScript

Retrieving data from Dynamics 365

Dustin Miner
posted on January 18, 2022March 12, 2024
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Introduction The post describes several methods for retrieving data from Dynamics 365 (i.e. Dataverse). The example described in this post searches the systemusers entity for users who have the name

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Importing xls data into a Canvas App

Dustin Miner
posted on December 28, 2021February 10, 2022
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Overview The post simply gives an overview of the following example: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/maker/canvas-apps/get-started-create-from-blank The app example demonstration Select

Posted in Dynamics 365 CE, JavaScript

Lookup field on a Dynamics 365 form – lookup view

Dustin Miner
posted on December 25, 2021January 31, 2023
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Looking up a record The lookup view is set as the lookup field’s default view (Note: a non-lookup view can also be assigned.) The values displayed in Figure 2 e.g. 17/12/2021 are displayed