Dataverse Archives - Dustin Miner

Using Postman with the Power Platform

Dustin Miner
posted on May 27, 2024October 2, 2024
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This post provides some screenshots of how to use Postman to trigger For a detailed explanation of how to setup Postman, please refer to the references at the end of the post Setup Referring to

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Download large files via Dataverse

Dustin Miner
posted on May 27, 2024November 11, 2024
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This post describes how to leverage Dataverse in order to download large files from a server to a Dynamics 365 form Problem Description Referring to Figure 1, 1.) On the Dynamics 365 form, a user

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Upload large files via Dataverse

Dustin Miner
posted on April 11, 2024November 11, 2024
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This post describes how to leverage Dataverse in order to upload large files from a Dynamics 365 form to a server Problem Description Referring to Figure 1, 1.) A large file is placed on a Dynamics

Posted in Dataverse, Developer Tips

Create a temporary plugin assembly

Dustin Miner
posted on March 21, 2024November 12, 2024
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On a project, it's common for multiple developers to be updating the same Dataverse plugin assembly at the same time. This post describes one way for a developer to make updates to the plug-in

Posted in Client API for model-driven apps, Dataverse, TypeScript

Determine if a user has a particular security role

Dustin Miner
posted on March 14, 2024November 12, 2024
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Introduction Consider the situation where a field on a Dynamics 365 form needs to be either shown or hidden based on whether the logged in user has a particular security role. This is usually

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Adding a many-to-many relationship subgrid to a form

Dustin Miner
posted on February 28, 2024November 9, 2024
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This post will provide some screenshots on how to add a many to many subgrid (i.e. N:N subgrid) to a Dynamics 365 form (Figure 1). In the example, many person records will be associated to many

Making Xrm.WebAPI calls synchronous

Dustin Miner
posted on July 2, 2023September 26, 2024
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Overview This post describes two examples for how to interact with Xrm.WebApi.retrieveMultipleRecords(). The first is an asynchronous approach and the second is a synchronous approach. 1.)

Posted in C#, Dataverse, JavaScript

Retrieving data from Dataverse

Dustin Miner
posted on January 18, 2022July 26, 2024
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Introduction The post describes several methods for retrieving data from Dataverse. Retrieving data using C# Query Expression FetchXML LINQ Note: Early binding is required for this. In this example,

Apply addPreSearch & addCustomFilter to a Lookup

Dustin Miner
posted on December 14, 2021October 2, 2024
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The post describes an example of how to filter the results displayed in a Dynamics 365 lookup control using the client API addPreSearch &

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Create records in Dataverse via a Canvas App

Dustin Miner
posted on April 2, 2021September 21, 2024
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This post describes an example of how to submit data from a Canvas App’s edit form into