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A ‘What’s Coming Up’ Dashboard

Dustin Miner
posted on August 31, 2021January 23, 2022
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Introduction This post describes how to create a simple multi-stream interactive ‘what’s coming up’ dashboard. The dashboard represents a form of calendar which displays what events

JavaScript applied to Dynamics 365

Dustin Miner
posted on August 20, 2021September 26, 2024
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Listed below are some examples of how I’ve seen JavaScript applied to Dynamics 365 JS ‘Common’ Code Snippets Remove {} from a GUID Update a field that occurs multiple times on a

Posted in C#, Dynamics 365 CE

C# Plugin calling an external REST API

Dustin Miner
posted on August 5, 2021November 9, 2024
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This post provides a simple example of how a Dynamics 365 C# plugin can connect to an external REST API (i.e. sitting outside of the Dynamics 365 environment). (The class used to achieve this being

Navigate Stages of a Business Process Flow

Dustin Miner
posted on July 24, 2021November 9, 2024
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This post describes, at a high level, how to programmatically navigate stages of a business process flow (BPF). It also describes how to control what’s presented on the Dynamics 365 form at

Posted in Business Process Flow, Data Migration, Dynamics 365 CE

Migrate data from a legacy system into Dynamics 365

Dustin Miner
posted on June 12, 2021November 7, 2024
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This post steps through the migration of data from a legacy system (the legacy data being extracted into spreadsheets) and into a Dynamics 365 environment. Specifically the migration of contacts,

Posted in Dataverse, Dynamics 365 CE, JavaScript, Power Automate

Handle time zone correctly in Power Automate

Dustin Miner
posted on March 20, 2021October 2, 2024
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Consider the situation where Power Automate retrieves a date time value from Dataverse and incorrectly specifies the value as a day before the correct date. (As a result of not handling the time zone

Posted in Azure, Dynamics 365 CE

Create a service principle to access Dynamics 365 / Dataverse API

Dustin Miner
posted on January 8, 2021September 26, 2024
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This post describes a scenario where an Azure function needs to connect to Dynamics 365 (online) / Dataverse in order to retrieve data from a Dataverse

Posted in Dynamics 365 CE, JavaScript