TypeScript Archives - Dustin Miner

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

Xrm.Utility.lookupObjects to add records to a subgrid

Dustin Miner
posted on January 4, 2024November 19, 2024
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Introduction This post explains how to ‘re-wire’ the ‘Add Existing Court Orders’ button (Figure 1) to call the Xrm.Utility.lookupObjects client API (with custom defined

Posted in Dynamics 365 CE, PCF, React, TypeScript

Communication between React PCF controls and the form

Dustin Miner
posted on November 29, 2023July 18, 2024
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This issue The PCF framework supports communication between the PCF and form via binding to a field or dataset. However, what if more comprehensive communication is required? This post describes (at

Posted in Dynamics 365 CE, PCF, TypeScript

Create and deploy a standard PCF control

Dustin Miner
posted on July 27, 2023September 3, 2024
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The post describes the steps involved in creating and deploying a simple PCF

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 Dynamics 365 CE, TypeScript, Visual Studio

Unit testing with xrm-mock in Visual Studio 2022

Dustin Miner
posted on February 2, 2023June 27, 2023
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Overview The purpose of this post is to provide an introduction into how to setup automated unit testing of Dynamics 365 client-side TypeScript. Initial Install & Setup 1.) Install node.js if not

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 Dynamics 365 CE, JavaScript, TypeScript, Visual Studio

Getting started with XrmDefinitelyTyped

Dustin Miner
posted on September 18, 2021September 14, 2024
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Introduction XrmDefinitelyTyped generates TypeScript declaration files for Dynamics 365 client-side coding (model driven forms). It’s the TypeScript equivalent of CrmSvcUtil. This post